Louis E. Capuano, Jr. is a 1971 graduate in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He has worked as a Drilling Engineer in the Geothermal Industry since 1974 and has drilled and completed geothermal wells in many countries around the Pacific circle of fire. Mr. Capuano served two terms as President of the Geothermal Resources Council and sat on the Board for over 25 years and has conducted many drilling workshops for the GRC as well as the DOE, USEA, Indonesia Geothermal Association and State of California. In 1980, Mr. Capuano was the founder and CEO of ThermaSource, Inc. which was a multi-layered service provider to the geothermal industry, providing engineering, rotary drilling rigs, geothermal cementing services, mud engineering and services, geothermal mud logging and geologic exploration services. In 2011, Mr. Capuano left ThermaSource, Inc. and started Capuano Engineering Company with his son Louis Capuano, III. They are a successful engineering consultant company working on geothermal drilling projects worldwide.