David Butler
CEO and Chairman of the Board
Mr. Butler is founder and chief executive officer of NABFC. Mr. Butler has been involved in the automotive and marine industry since 1980, with a specific interest in diesel engines since 1984. He has been developing the Company's proprietary biodiesel system since 1999. The system has evolved into a highly automated production system, with fully integrated PLC control systems and automated quality control supervision processes. Mr. Butler past accomplishments have all been in entrepreneurial engineering projects. From 1985 to 1999, Mr. Butler focused on innovation in the telecommunications field. Within the Internet development community, Mr. Butler lead the first successful deployments of K56Flex, a precursor to the V.90 and V.92 modem specifications, in a program with Ascend and Hayes. Prior to that, Mr., Butler was a developer with GE Talaria projection system, creating mobile projection systems for the military and private sector. Notable installations were the Rolling Stones Steel Wheels, The Who's 25th Anniversary Tour, and Janet Jackson's Black Cat Tour. Additionally, the GE Talaria system was key in most early Epcot systems, including the Epcot Horizons pavilion. Mr. Butler also led the development of a series of third party hardware subsystems for the Atari ST and TT line of computers, including the Squid multi monitor interface, the Switcher Multi TOS selector, and a host of internally packaged hardware applications for the ST, including the first internal hard drive SCSI subsystem for the Mega ST. Mr. Butler was the original software architect, developer and hardware designer at Echo Communications, New York's first electronic community, where he developed and built all the original hardware and set up the OS for EchoNYC. Mr. Butler received a BA in Communications from New York Institute of Technology and a Masters of Professional Studies from NYU in Interactive Telecommunications. Mr. Butler holds Microsoft Certification in SQL & Network Implementation and is a GE Talaria Class C operator.