JERRY BIRD AND IAN BOWLES JOIN ZE-GEN’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Boston, MA – November 1, 2006 – Ze-gen, Inc., a Boston-based, privately-held company providing advanced gasification technology to convert industrial and municipal waste streams into synthetic natural gas and low emissions electrical energy, is pleased to announce the addition of Jerry Bird and Ian Bowles to its Board of Directors.

Jerry Bird, who joined Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation as Vice President in 2005, has over 20 years of investing and financial experience.  He currently manages MTDC’s investments in Atlantis components, Inc, Clarity Imaging, Inc. and BEZ systems. Before joining MTDC, Mr. Bird was a partner at Brook Venture Partners and Nova MedVentures. Prior to that, he was President of Boston-based Claflin Capital Management, which he joined as a general partner in 1996. While at Claflin, Mr. Bird led over a dozen investments in early-stage technology companies. He was on the boards of e-Travel, Inc., which subsequently merged with VA Linux, LinkSoft Technologies, Nexcen Technologies, and Bitpipe, Inc. Prior to joining Claflin Capital Management, he spent 10 years at BankBoston in the energy and markets investment banking divisions.

Mr. Bird received both a BA and an MBA degree from Dartmouth College. He is also on the board of Massachusetts Audubon, Crossroads for Kids and the Advisory Board of the Trust for Public Land.

Ian Bowles is President & CEO of MassINC, a leading Boston-based nonpartisan, nonprofit research institute and Publisher of CommonWealth.  From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Bowles was a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and was Senior Advisor for Strategy Development at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Prior to that, Bowles served as Senior Director of the Global Environmental Affairs directorate at the National Security Council and as Associate Director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. He was also Vice President of Conservation International and a Legislative Assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives. 

Holding an A.B. in economics cum laude from Harvard College and a Masters degree from Oxford University, Mr. Bowles is author of more than 40 published papers in journals ranging from Science to Environmental Law and is co-author of Footprints in the Jungle, an Oxford University Press-published volume on natural resource industries and environmental practices. 

About Ze-gen, Inc.
Ze-gen was formed in mid-2004 in order to develop and deploy efficient gasification systems that convert municipal solid waste (MSW) and construction and demolition waste (C&D) into clean energy. The reasons to do so are compelling:

• In the United States alone over 350 million tons of MSW and C&D are created each year, with 300 million tons ending up in landfills. Once there, this waste converts into approximately 580 million tons of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gas, of which 50% is methane, a substance 22 times more harmful to the environment than CO2 itself

• Landfills are the largest man-made source of methane gas emissions and account for over 8% of total greenhouse gas generation

• Ze-gen represents a non-incineration based opportunity to create clean power with a virtually limitless supply of free fuel