( Our Team )

Management

• Salvatore C. Scuderi (BS, JD), President

  Mr. Scuderi is responsible for the Scuderi Group’s overall operation and business strategy. He has more than 20 years experience in program management, financial forecasting/planning, M&A, contract negotiations and strategic planning, as well as engineering and manufacturing management. Prior to leading the Scuderi Group, Sal worked as a consultant for M&A, turnaround management, financial restructuring and business planning. He also worked closely with Carmelo Scuderi on the design of the Scuderi Engine.
  
• Nick Scuderi, Vice President Marketing and Sales

  Mr. Scuderi directs the Scuderi Group's marketing and sales strategy worldwide. He worked as international sales manager for Thermaflo, Inc., a refrigerant recovery systems manufacturer for nearly ten years before buying the company in 1997. Nick transitioned Thermaflo into industrial tool solutions and then sold the company to Refco of Switzerland, where he worked as international sales manager until joining the Scuderi group in 2006.
  
• Stephen Scuderi (BSME, BSEE, JD, MIP), Vice President and Patent Attorney

  Mr. Scuderi is responsible for development of the Scuderi Group's intellectual property portfolio and technical management of the Scuderi Engine project. He worked as a design engineer for more than 20 years before entering private practice as a patent attorney in 1998. Stephen has experience with patent and trademark prosecution strategies, reexamination filings, infringement and patentability options, as well as licensing and litigation. He also assisted in the design of several aspects of the Scuderi Engine, and is an inventor on several issued patents and patents pending.
  
• Lutz Deyerling (MBA), Vice President of European Operations and Corporate Strategy

  Mr. Deyerling directs the Scuderi Group’s European activities and global financial strategy. He has over 15 years of experience in the banking and consulting sectors of the automotive industry. Focusing on IPOs, venture capital and M&A, Lutz worked several years for Deutsche Bank, Bank Berlin, BHF Bank, Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young and was involved in more than 20 IPOs and has successfully closed several mergers and acquisition transactions. Prior to joining the Scuderi Group in 2006, he headed the corporate finance team of Ernst & Young’s automotive division.
  
• Dennis Rader (BCE, ScM, PhD), Licensing Manager

  Mr. Rader is responsible for the Scuderi Group's intellectual property licensing operations and strategy. He is the founder and principal of Rader Technology Licensing, a consulting firm that specializes in technology licensing, transfer and valuation, as well as IP management strategy. Some of his former clients include Mobil Oil Corporation, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Ensign-Bickford, Pitney Bowes, GreatPoint Energy and Alcatel Lucent. Dr. Rader was previously Mobil Oil Corporation's Licensing Executive responsible for worldwide licensing of Mobil's Exploration and Production technologies and was a professor of engineering and applied science at Yale University from 1967-1973 and 1989-1996 where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in engineering and technology management.
  
• Bill Wrinn, Director of Marketing/Communications

  Mr. Wrinn is responsible for the strategic planning and direction of the Scuderi Group's global marketing program. He has a wide range of media communications, marketing and publishing experience, spanning more than 20 years. A former news, government and education reporter, he has worked in public relations for the past 10 years, with a focus on the technology, consumer and academic industries. For three years prior to joining the Scuderi Group full time in May 2008, Bill directed the Scuderi global public relations account at Topaz Partners, where his team won the 2008 Bell Ringer Award for best business-to-business PR campaign.