Aether Catalyst Solutions has appointed veteran director and realtor Benjamin Catalano to its board of directors, adding three decades of governance experience to the Burnaby, British Columbia-based emissions technology company. The company said the move is intended to strengthen board oversight and strategic guidance as it works to commercialize catalyst technologies designed to cut the cost of automotive catalytic converters by an order of magnitude while still meeting or exceeding government emissions standards. Aether is also developing catalysts for small off-road engines, or SORE, which it says are a meaningful source of urban air pollution. The company trades as ATHR on the Canadian Securities Exchange, as 2QZ in Frankfurt and as ATHHF on OTC Pink, and it said its market capitalization is about C$754,300 with average trading volume of 132,760 shares. Aether said Catalano has served as a director of numerous public companies over the past 30 years and has worked as a realtor in the Greater Vancouver area for more than 25 years.