Farokh S. Hakimi

Vale Inco Ltd. manufactures nickel materials for manufacturing stainless steel and batteries. It also mines and processes copper, gold, cobalt and platinum metals. The company also manufactures flakes and powders for use in catalysts, electronics and paints. Its mining and processing operations are in Canada, Indonesia and the UK. Vale Inco was founded in 1901 and is located in Toronto, Canada.

Rio Algom Ltd. is a diversified Canadian mining and metals distribution company, whose mining activities include the production of copper, gold, uranium, molybdenum and coal in North and South America. It also operates a metal distribution business in Canada and the United States. The company is located in Toronto, Canada.

Alto Central LLC operates as a bioethanol and biodiesel company. It also offers bioproducts, and coproducts which includes corn gluten feed and meal, corn germ, condensed corn distillers solubles, dried distillers grain with solubles and wet distillers grain with solubes, corn oils and yeast. The company is headquartered in Pekin, IL.

Pacific Ethanol Pekin, Inc. produces and markets ethanol and related by products. The firm is engaged in the production and marketing of fuel-grade ethanol for use in cleaner burning ethanol-blended gasoline. It also owns and operates a corn wet milling plant in Pekin. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Pekin, IL.

Tamaka Gold Corp. engages in the exploration of gold mines. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.