Robert E. "Bud" Klepper is Range Fuels' Chief Technical Specialist and Inventor. Bud brings many years of process equipment design and fabrication experience to the team. His experience ranges from the design of heat exchangers, pressure vessels, and reactors to complete process plants in the oil and gas production, chemical, pharmaceutical, and petrochemical process industries. He is a recognized expert in ASME and TEMA codes as well as European PED design requirements. His process designs and plants are producing natural gas, oil, petrochemicals, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, inks, and environmental enhancement processes. He holds several patents in natural gas processing and oil and gas production equipment. His broad background led to the development and patents of the pyrolytic steam reforming conversion process. Bud has a technical degree in mechanical systems design from the National Engineering Institute, and continued his education in mathematics at Metropolitan State College. He has also earned education credits in oil hydraulics system design and natural gas processing from the Colorado School of Mines.

Samir Kaul is a founding general partner at Khosla Ventures, focusing on clean technologies and life sciences investing. Since joining forces with Khosla, Samir has led the firm's investments in Altra, Amyris, Cilion, Great Point Energy, Mascoma, Stion, and a number of earlier science projects. Previously, Samir applied his strong scientific background, experience running large project teams, and business training at Flagship Ventures, where he focused on early-stage biotechnology companies. During his five years there, he was involved in starting and investing in a number of companies including Helicos BioSciences, Epitome Biosystems, Codon Devices, LS9, and Morphotek. Samir attended the University of Michigan for his undergraduate studies in biology, and the University of Maryland, where he studied biochemistry – specifically gene regulation and expression. Samir then went on to receive an MBA from Harvard Business School.