HES Team

Employees Names              Position Phone E-Mail Walt Wendland CEO/President   563-238-5555   Ext 209 wwendland@etoh.us Jeff Grober CFO 563-238-5555   Ext 207 jgrober@etoh.us Chad Kuhlers Chief Operations Officer 563-238-5555   Ext 206 ckuhlers@etoh.us Sarah Frein Human Resource 563-238-5555 Ext 144 sfrein@etoh.us Stan Wubbena Commodity Manager 563-238-5552 swubbena@etoh.us Kevin Howes Plant Manager 563-238-5555   Ext 237 khowes@etoh.us Rebecca Williams Financial Assistant 563-238-5555   Ext 210 rwilliams@etoh.us Deanna Eastman Commodity Assist./Office Manager 563-238-5555   Ext 212 deastman@etoh.us Gail Snyder Grain Grader 563-238-5555  Ext 214 gsnyder@etoh.us Lisa Hurd Grain Grader 563-238-5555 Ext 214 lhurd@etoh.us Kay Boedeker       Grain Commodity Specialist 563-238-5555 Ext 205 kboedeker@etoh.us Rita Dunn     EPA Manager 563-238-5555 Ext 232 rdunn@etoh.us  Dean Wendland   Production Supervisor 563-238-5250 dwendland@etoh.us Brandon Howland   Production Supervisor 563-238-5250 bhowland@etoh.us Marty Grady Production Supervisor 563-238-5250 mgrady@etoh.us Dan Gebel Production Supervisor 563-238-5250 dgebel@etoh.us Nathan Schiedel Production Supervisor 563-238-5250 nschiedel@etoh.us Tina Knebel Lab Supervisor 563-238-5555 Ext 234 tknebel@etoh.us Don Mork Maintainence Supervisor 563-238-5019 dmork@etoh.us     Dan Clark Commodities Supervisor 563-238-5555 Ext 244 dclark@etoh.us Meclindo Salinas Jr. D & E Operator 563-238-5555 msalinas@etoh.us Kyle Guertin D & E Operator 563-238-5555 kguertin@etoh.us Tony Vick Vacation Relief Operator   563-238-5555 tvick@etoh.us Jeff McCrea D & E Operator 563-238-5555 jmccrea@etoh.us Matt Guertin Cook Operator 563-238-5555 mguertin@etoh.us Shawn Tibbitts Cook Operator 563-238-5555 stibbitts@etoh.us Tony Greer Cook Operator 563-238-5555 tgreer@etoh.us Dean Rothmeyer Cook Operator 563-238-5555 drothmeyer@etoh.us Sherri Hansen D & E Operator 563-238-5555 shansen@etoh.us Barb Ball Lab Tech 563-238-5555 Ext 234 bball@etoh.us Lindsay Kuhn Lab Tech 563-238-5555 Ext 234 lkuhn@etoh.us Scott Peterson Maintenance Technician   563-238-5555 Ext 235 speterson@etoh.us Jason Orthaus Maintenance Technician   563-238-5555 Ext 240 jorthaus@etoh.us Jim Hulbert Maintenance Technician 563-238-5555 Ext 240 jhulbert@etoh.us Paul Packard Maintenance  Technician 563-238-5555 Ext 240 ppackard@etoh.us Scott Bauer Maintenance Technician   563-238-5555 Ext 113 sbauer@etoh.us Bernie Huegel Groundskeeper   563-238-5555 Ext 241 bhuegel@etoh.us Jacob Wendland Material Handler   563-238-5555 jwendland@etoh.us Alan King Material Handler   563-238-5555 aking@etoh.us Rick Pryor Material Handler   563-238-5555 rpryor@etoh.us Tony Zeien Material Handler   563-238-5555 tzeien@etoh.us Devon Panos Material Handler   563-238-5555 dpanos@etoh.us Steve Ameling Material Handler   563-238-5555 sameling@etoh.us     Anthony Hulbert Material Handler 563-238-5555 ahulbert.us Paul High Material Handler 563-238-5555 phigh@etoh.us Legal Council Brown, Winick, Graves, Gross, Baskerville and Schoenebaum, P.L.C.   Brown, Winick, Graves, Gross, Baskerville and Schoenebaum, P.L.C. is a major Iowa law firm with offices in Des Moines and Pella. The firm originated as a tax law specialty firm in downtown Des Moines in 1951. Today the firm offers a broad range of legal services to clients throughout Iowa, regionally, and nationally. Over the years, the firm’s areas of practice have grown to serve new and varied needs of its clients in a rapidly changing regulatory and business environment. The firm provides a comprehensive range of legal services primarily to businesses and professionals. The firm has expanded its areas of practice to include litigation/trial, agribusiness law, banking law, securities law, pensions and profit sharing, administrative law, employment law, environmental law, health law, corporation and business law, construction law, patent, trademark and copyright law, taxation law, workmen’s compensation law, bankruptcy law, and real estate law. The firm serves as counsel to service, manufacturing, and commercial corporations; health care providers; doctors; governmental agencies and quasi-governmental agencies; banks, bank holding companies and other financial institutions; corporations and partnerships; and estates and trusts. It represents these entities in many facets of the law, including corporate, commercial, transactional, labor, securities, and litigation matters. Design Builder Fagen Inc. and Fagen Engineering, LLC Fagen, Inc. is a privately owned, heavy industrial, non-union contractor. Fagen is currently registered to do business in 33 states, prefers to self perform work, and has about 1000 skilled craftsmen on their payroll. Their success in becoming a $300 million company has been earned through their abilities to be proactive, flexible and responsive in order to provide maximum value to their customers. Industrial construction has been and continues to be the backbone of Fagen Inc. and the formation of Fagen Engineering, LLC has given them the capacity to be the single point of responsibility for overall project execution from design through startup. This makes Fagen a Design-Build contractor with the ability to un-bundle its services to meet the needs of the client. Fagen, Inc is confident that they have all of the essential ingredients needed to be a valued member of the project execution team. Fagen Engineering is acting as the builder on the project. Fagen possesses extensive experience in the area of heavy industrial projects, particularly agricultural based facilities. The expertise of Fagen in integrating process and facility design into a construction and operationally efficient facility is very important. In particular, Fagen, Inc. has been the prime contractor on thirteen ethanol projects currently is engaged as prime contractor on five additional ethanol projects and has performed significant work in a total of 28 ethanol plants in the U.S. In many instances, Fagen has been asked to return to the plant as the maintenance contractor or follow up construction company for major expansions. In particular, Fagen has done repeat work for Chief Ethanol Fuels and Minnesota Corn Processors who both rank in the top ten of ethanol producers. Their understanding of operational efficiencies and integration of various process islands is important in overall profitability of the plant. Fagen also has knowledge and support to assist the HES management team in executing a successful startup. Fagen is a meaningful project participant because of its investment and desire to facilitate the project’s successful transition from startup to day-to-day profitable operation. Process Design Engineer ICM ICM is a full, service engineering, manufacturing and merchandising operation. ICM, Inc. is the engineering and manufacturing company and ICM Marketing, Inc. is the grain merchandising company. Both operations operate out of 55,000 square feet of manufacturing and office space near Wichita, Kansas. Engineering operations consist of consulting, design by Professional Engineers, procurement and project management as well as manufacturing engineering for the company’s DDG dryer and ICM/Phoenix Bio-Methanator wastewater treatment product lines. Key people of ICM have over 60 years of combined dry and wet mill operation and design experience. These operations experiences combined with research, design, and construction of the ethanol plant since the late 1970’s makes ICM one of the most experienced ethanol design firms in the nation. Dave Vander Griend, principal of ICM and ICM Marketing, Inc. has over twenty years of ethanol experience in design, fabrication and operations. Prior to forming ICM in 1995, Dave served as the Vice President of High Plains Corporation, successfully “turned around” their 20 MGY ethanol plant in Colwich in the late 1980s, formed it’s engineering and marketing divisions in the early 1990s, and more than doubled capacity by building their 30 MGY facility in York, NE in 1994. Since 1995, ICM has developed a very successful new design for DDG dryers and currently markets to more than seventy five percent of that market. ICM also entered into a partnership with Phoenix Bio-Systems. Dr. Joseph Ruocco, principal of Phoenix, has over twenty years of brewery and ethanol production experience and designed the ICM/Phoenix Bio-Methanator, a high rate treatment system for organics in wastewater. The Methanator, combined with ICM’s ethanol plant design, results in a true zero process water discharge ethanol plant. Public Accountant Eide Bailly LLP Eide Bailly LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, has audited our financial statements at April 30, 2006, as set forth in their report appearing in this prospectus and registration statement. We have included our financial statements in the prospectus and elsewhere in this registration statement in reliance on the report from Eide Bailly LLP, given on their authority as experts in accounting and auditing.