Randy Pilon and Ajmal Rahman Appointed Directors

Toronto, Ontario– January 8, 2010 – Oneworld Energy Inc., an emerging leader in the design, installation, management, operations and servicing of both wind and solar power projects, today announced the appointment of Randy Pilon and Ajmal Rahman to the Board of Directors of Oneworld Energy Inc. effective immediately.

Randy Pilon is the President and CEO of Virox Technologies Inc, a successful company with a patented technology in disinfection and sterilization marketed through several leading global partners such as Bayer, STERIS Corp and JohnsonDiversey. Mr. Pilon founded Virox in 1998 and has three times appeared in Profit Magazines “Companies to Watch “rankings in addition to a feature story in numerous media articles. In November 2006, Virox was the recipient of the prestigious Canadian American Business Council Award for business excellence. Prior to his career with Virox, Mr. Pilon spent 14 years with Bausch & Lomb a $2 Billion US$ multinational leader in the eye care business. Rising through the ranks of Bausch & Lomb, Randy became the Corporate Vice President of the Canadian subsidiary and was hand?picked as one of key global participants to create the global strategic plan. Mr. Pilon is also a Director of Forterra Environmental Corp., a TSX listed organics company, as well as sitting on the Board of Governors for Sheridan Polytechnic Institute and on an advisory Board for the Toronto Hospital For Sick Children. Mr. Pilon is a frequent speaker at Universities, Colleges and Venture Capital events. He is a graduate of the Sheridan College Business Program (1982), The Queens Executive Program (1995) and the University of Toronto Rotman School of Business MBA Program (2004) and the Institute of Corporate Directors (IDC.D designation) Corporate Governance program at U of T Rotman (2005), Harvard Business School Strategic Planning and Competitive Advantage Course (2007).

Ajmal Rahman is an independent strategic advisor and private equity investor based in London. He worked for Merrill Lynch in several senior positions for over 17 years from 1986 until 2003. From 2001 to 2003 he was the co?head of the Asia Investment Banking Group of Merrill Lynch based in Hong Kong. Between 1996 and 2001 he was managing director and regional head of Merrill Lynch’s Asian Equity Capital Markets group. In addition to his tenure working in the Merrill Lynch Hong Kong office, he had significant roles in the Equity Capital Markets groups in New York (1991?2) and London (1986?1990 and 1994?96). During his 17 years with Merrill Lynch, Mr. Rahman spent 15 years with the Equity Capital Markets group and during that time completed a significant number of landmark Initial Public Offerings from all around the world. In addition, Mr. Rahman has had a significant role in the completion of over 100 international equity or equity?linked offerings of greater than $150 million that raised a total of over $65 Billion. Since 2003, Mr. Rahman has worked as a private equity investor and strategic consultant to a number of emerging technology companies. Mr. Rahman sits on the Development Committee of The Prince’s Teaching Institute. Amongst various advisory roles he has played in this capacity he has been a Non?Executive Chairman of Rainbow Rewards Ltd and a former Chairman of the Advisory Board at Artificial Life, Inc. Mr. Rahman received a M.A. in Law from Cambridge University in 1984.

Mr. Chuck Allen, President and Chief Executive Officer of Oneworld Energy, commented, “We are very pleased to welcome Mr. Pilon and Mr. Rahman to the Oneworld Energy Board of Directors. Each has accomplished a great deal in terms of their business and personal life and both Randy and Ajmal have a very strong record of successfully working with high growth and publicly listed companies. Their expertise and experience will be a perfect complement to the management team as

Oneworld Energy continues its rapid expansion throughout the Americas and Europe and through the listing process.”
The Company also announces that Glenn Huber, Darrell Smith and Michael Heffring have resigned as members of the Board of Directors. The Company would like to thank them for their service and wish them well.

About Oneworld Energy Inc.
Oneworld Energy Inc. is a diversified international renewable clean energy company that commenced operations in 2003. The company is focused on developing, owning and servicing renewable energy assets in diversified geographic markets. The company has 100 employees located in offices in Toronto and Goderich, Ontario, Copenhagen, Denmark, Erfurt, Bamberg and Munich, Germany as well as Long Island, New York. The company is aggressively sourcing wind and solar energy projects that it can own and operate and is also active in all aspects of servicing the value chain in both the wind and solar sectors – design & development, construction, and operations & maintenance through its various operating units. To?date, Oneworld has designed, planned and constructed over 50 MW of wind energy farms and 25 MW of solar energy parks for clients in Canada, Europe and the United States.

For more information contact:

Charles (Chuck) Allen, President & CEO
Email: callen@oneworldenergy.com
+1.416.622.7007

Peter Kampian, Executive Vice-President and CFO
Email: pkampian@oneworldenergy.com
+1.416.622.7007

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