Executive Chairman and Founder, Jerome Feldman, commented, "It is a pleasure to welcome Jim Kilman to the Board of alpha-En Corporation.  An early investor in alpha-En, he is widely admired as an investment banker, an advisor on strategy, mergers and restructurings, and for raising debt and equity capital.  His decades of experience and his deep expertise will be invaluable to us as alpha-En grows."

"I'm very excited to be deepening my relationship with alpha-En by joining its Board," Mr. Kilman said. "It's an exciting time for the company as it begins to commercialize its ground-breaking approach to lithium production. I look forward to working with the alpha-En team."

Mr. Kilman will serve on the Audit and Compensation Committees of the Board.  He also serves on the Boards of privately held Berwyn, PA-based Modular Space Corporation, and of privately held New York City-based Lebenthal Holdings LLC. He serves on the Board of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Cold Spring, NY, and on the Finance and Investments Committee of the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY.  He is Treasurer of his Yale College Class, and has previously been active on the Parents Association Boards at Bucknell University and Carleton College.

Mr. Kilman holds an MA and a BA in Economics from Yale University.