The Team

James Broghammer, ALL Energy Company- Founder; Pacesetter Management-President. James has worked for 20 years leading various operations that process corn into Ethanol, Corn syrup, Fructose, Pharmaceutical sugars, food starches and industrial grade starches. His experience includes employment with Archer Daniels Midland, Penford Products Company, Pacesetter Management Group and a Joint Venture with Cargill. James is the President of Pacesetter Management Group which is responsible for current operations of Ace Ethanol and Pine Lake Corn Processors. In addition, Pacesetter has long term management contracts with SW Energy for a plant to be built in McCook Nebraska and another contract with Stonic Energy for a plant to be built in Augusta, Wisconsin. Pacesetter also has letters of intent from three other operations totaling 400mmgpy year of capacity. By the end of 2007 Pacesetter Management group will be managing over 600 MMGPY of capacity. At Penford Products Company James was the Director of Operations where he led the operations group to implement over 14 million dollars of annual savings and led the plant to a 50% improvement in productivity. In this time frame Penford went from being the highest cost producer to nearly the lowest cost producer. In addition, to the lowering of the cost structure, James led the initiative to implement the ISO 9000 process for an entire wet corn milling facility. Today, Penford is still the only wet corn milling facility that is ISO 9000 approved. Pacesetter and James took over the operation at Ace ethanol in January 2005. Since this time the production has moved up 20%, the safety incidents have been reduced in half and the plant is now in environmental compliance. The profit of the plant went from a loss of $4M in 2004 to a profit of $6M is 2005, and a projected profit of $26M in 2006. The company will be out of debt in October and the current shareholders have offers to purchase the company at a return of several times the original investment. James joined the Pine Lake Corn Processors team before the financial close. James oversaw the permitting, construction, startup and the pending expansion at Pine Lake. Pine Lake had one of the most successful startups; Reaching 110% of rating capacity in the second month of operation and in April enjoyed an operating rate of 131% of design. James is also the President of Iowa River Railroad. Iowa River railroad began operation this year and is the first short line railroad started in Iowa in over twenty years. The 42 mile track runs from Marshalltown, Iowa to Ackley Iowa. The rail line is connected to the UP in Marshalltown and the CN in Ackley. James responsibility included bringing the group of four investors together, negotiating the contracts with the CN and UP, writing the business plan and obtaining the funding and working towards bringing the line into full operation.

Scott Zabler, ALL Energy Company-Founder; Pacesetter Management. Scott grew up near Chicago Illinois. College included four years at Purdue University earning a BS in Agriculture Economics. For the past 25 years, Scott has worked for Ralston Purina, FC Stone, Penford Products, and Verasun Energy. His experience includes all aspects of grain merchandising, such as buying, futures and options trading, risk management. Along with grain merchandising Scott was also involved with the selling of the different co-products from the wet milling industry. For the past two years Scott was the Commodity Manager for Verasun Energy. His role included buying the corn, selling of the dry and wet distiller’s grains, coordination of the selling of the ethanol and the overall risk management for Verasun.

Mark Leonard, ALL Energy Company-Founder and Advisor; Leo-Land, Inc., Founder and CEO. Mark Leonard has been involved in production agriculture and marketing valued added Ag products nationally his entire adult life and internationally for over 20 years. The family operation encompasses crop land and 400 head of registered Limousine and Angus breeding females. His career in banking began in 1990 and he is presently the owner of Ag-Com Financial Services providing credit needs to agriculture and commercial borrowers in a 4 state area. Mark was appointed by Gov. Branstad to serve as a Director of the Iowa Agricultural Development Authority where he served 17 years, 4 years as Chairman, overseeing the Beginning Farmer Loan programs for the state of Iowa. He has also served as a Director of the National Assoc. of Rural Rehabilitation Corporations, serving as liaison between USDA and the Rural Economic Development groups of each state. Mark was an original shareholder in Quad County Corn Processors, an ethanol plant located near his farm headquarters. He has provided financing to many banking clients, enabling them to be shareholders in the renewable energy industry. With over 20 years of active political involvement and work on issues affecting economic development, he has access to policy makers at the state and national levels. Mark has a B.S. in Animal Science from Iowa State University and has been an instructor at the Iowa Bankers Assoc. Ag Credit School.