People: Environmental Power Corporation (EPG.O)

August Schumacher, Jr. has been a director of Environmental Power Corporation since 2002. Since January 2003, Mr. Schumacher has served as a consultant to W.K. Kellogg Foundation, a consultant advisor to SJH & Company, Inc. and development advisor to Cantera Partners, LLC. From 2001 to 2006, Mr. Schumacher directed the Washington office of the SJH & Company, Inc. Mr. Schumacher served as the third-highest ranking official in the United States Department of Agriculture in the Farm and Foreign Agricultural Service from 1997 to 2001. During this time, he was also President of the USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation. Prior to his appointment, he directed the Department’s Foreign Agricultural Service. Earlier, Mr. Schumacher was the Senior Agricultural Project Manager for World Bank and also served as the Commissioner of Food and Agriculture for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Mr. Schumacher is currently a member of the 21st Century Sustainable Agriculture Task Force of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2007, Mr. Schumacher, among others, oversaw the preparation of the Task Force Report of the Chicago Council of Global Affairs, titled “Modernizing America’s Food and Farm Policy: Vision for a New Direction.” Mr. Schumacher is also chairman of the Wholesome Wave Foundation of Westport, Connecticut, a non-profit organization, and serves on the boards of FreshFarm Markets of Washington, D.C. and GrainPro, LLC of Concord, Massachusetts, a privately held company.