Board Members

Steve Magami, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Mr. Magami is the co-founder and founding investor of Stratos. He has deep experience in the agro-energy industry and previously financed and helped build Latin America’s largest biodiesel producer. He is a private equity investor with a particular focus on renewable energy & agriculture. Previously he managed private equity funds for, and generated top returns for, Goldman Sachs, GE & others.

Steve Norris, Vice Chairman
Mr. Norris was a co-founder of The Carlyle Group in Washington, DC serving as President of its management company from its inception in 1987 to 1996. Mr. Norris played a major role in recruiting George W. Bush to serve as director of one of its portfolio companies in addition to enlisting former Secretary of State James Baker III and former Secretary of Defense Frank C. Carlucci to be senior partners of Carlyle. He was appointed by President George H. W. Bush and confirmed by the US Senate to serve as one of five governing members of the $100 billion Federal Retirement System Thrift Investment Board. He earned a BS and JD from the University of Alabama, was a fellow at Yale Law School and earned an LLM in Taxation from New York University.

Leonard Brooks, Director
Leonard Brooks is a senior investment banking professional with over 20 years of investment banking experience. Mr. Brooks founded and ran a number of investment banking initiatives at prominent firms including most recently the Private Equity Finance Group at Goldman Sachs, and the Private Equity Placement Group at UBS. He holds an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and has been a member of the Fuqua School of Business Isle Maligne Society since 1985. Mr. Brooks holds a BBA from The College of William & Mary.

Jose N. Gonzales, Director
Mr. Gonzales has 27 years of managerial experience in industry, academia, and the Peruvian Navy (recently retired as a Rear Admiral upper half), with past successful experience in planning, organizing, leading and supervising multi-party projects under cost and time constraints, enhancing teamwork, communication and creative problem solving skills. Mr. Gonzales graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1979, with a B.Sc. in Naval Architecture. After a three-year sea duty, he attended MIT graduating with a Professional Degree in Ocean Engineering and a M.Sc. in Systems Management in 1984. After six years as Superintendent of Shipbuilding and Ship-repair at SIMA´s Naval Shipyard, he attended Harvard University graduating as an MPA in 1991. He was Under Secretary of the Peruvian Navy from 1998 until 1999 and Chairman of the Board of the Naval Retirement Fund from 2005 until 2007.