John Pinkerton is a visionary developer of multi billion dollar, capital intensive energy infrastructure projects, with 40 years of experience in the petrochemicals industry. He founded and initially capitalized the STAR Group of Companies including: Energy Capital Group Holdings LLC, the parent investment holding company; STAR Chemical Development LLC, the development company for multi-billion CAPEX petrochemical projects; and STAR-USI Victoria LLC, the operating company. Mr. Pinkerton formed investment based alliances with S&B Engineers and Constructors Ltd. in Houston, alongside S&B’s EPC Joint Venture with JGC America, Inc. / JGC Corporation Yokohama, the largest EPC contractor in the Middle East. He co-developed the STAR Risk Mitigation Platform for non-recourse financing in London and obtained the insurance coverages from major investment grade insurance underwriters serving the global energy infrastructure market sector. He recruited and hired the STAR Management Team; W. H. Murphy & Co., Investment Banker; Cushman & Wakefield of Texas, Inc., industrial real estate Broker and Advisor; Robert M. Stafford, Chairman & CEO, Stafford Capital Management; Triten IAG, Owner’s Engineer; and Amec Foster Wheeler – all of whom are necessary to develop, finance, execute and operate the assets. Prior to STAR, Mr. Pinkerton was CEO and Co-Founder of Uni-Pure Corporation, an energy technology development company in which a Division of Mannesmann in Germany, Gordon Cain of Cain Chemical, Sterling Chemical and Vista Chemical, and Chevron Texaco, Inc. were all investors. Pinkerton started his career with the Saran Lined Pipe Company, the exclusive marketing agent for the Dow Chemical Company’s plastic lined pipe division. Mr. Pinkerton has a B.S. in Marketing from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. He served on the Board of Directors of Storm Ventures International (SVI) in the British Virgin Islands and Barbados. SVI was a Canadian-based Oil & Gas exploration and production company operating under the corporate umbrella of Chinook Energy, Inc. in Alberta, Canada.