Cavitation Technologies, Inc. (CTi) Announces Appointment of Todd Zelek as Chief Executive Officer

LOS ANGELES, June 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CTi (OTCBB: CVAT, Frankfurt, Berlin & Stuttgart:WTC). Cavitation Technologies, Inc. (the "Company") is pleased to announce Todd J. Zelek as the new Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Zelek is replacing Roman Gordon, who will become the Company's Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Zelek is a private investor and has over 20 years of experience as an investment banker, most recently as Managing Director and Group Head at Lehman Brothers where he was responsible for the Los Angeles office and in charge of the Firm's Global Internet Practice. He was formerly a Managing Director at Salomon Brothers heading the Firm's Thrift Industry Practice. Mr. Zelek has an A.B. from Cornell University where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and an M.S. from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Commenting on his appointment, Mr. Zelek said, "It is a very exciting time for the Company. We have leveraged our patented technology to commercialize a device called the Nano Neutralization™ Reactor, which dramatically reduces costs and improves yields in the vegetable oil refining process and is currently being marketed to soybean oil refineries. Our patented technology can be utilized to process other vegetable oils and also has potential applications in waste water treatment, renewable fuel production and alcoholic beverage enhancement. We plan to drive growth by creating strategic partnerships, similar to our relationship with Desmet Ballestra, to capture significant opportunities within multiple markets."

Cavitation Technologies, Inc.(OTCBB:CVAT.OB – News)  is an early-stage development company that designs and engineers environmentally friendly NANO Technology-based systems that have potential commercial applications in large, growing, global liquid process application markets such as vegetable oils processing and refining, renewable fuels, crude oil yield enhancement, alcoholic beverage enhancement, and algae oil extraction.  Our mission is to apply our environmentally friendly technology in a way that potentially helps clients reduce operating costs, increase yields, and improve quality in liquid process applications.  

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