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These names are proposed. In all cases, CHEBEL has been in long discussions with them on behalf of defining its Solar Designs, applied. In many cases, these people are presently employed. When next level funding comes through, CHEBEL will employ a very close knit team of no more than 8, no less than 4 employees to begin its ramp up. CHEBEL is able to field, initially, a large project due to extremely good relationships with major contractors in aerospace engineering and geotech. There is an enormous pool of most excellent talent seeking work in the U.S. One will want to do proper searches for key Executive positions before filling them.
These bios represent the type and caliber of mindset and people one will need to carry off CHEBEL´s proposed projects. AND, one will need CHILEANs to fill positions, working out of Chile, and globally.
NOTE:
These names are proposed. In all cases, CHEBEL has been in long discussions with them on behalf of defining its Solar Designs, applied. In many cases, these people are presently employed. When next level funding comes through, CHEBEL will employ a very close knit team of no more than 8, no less than 4 employees to begin its ramp up. CHEBEL is able to field, initially, a large project due to extremely good relationships with major contractors in aerospace engineering and geotech. There is an enormous pool of most excellent talent seeking work in the U.S. One will want to do proper searches for key Executive positions before filling them.
These bios represent the type and caliber of mindset and people one will need to carry off CHEBEL´s proposed projects. AND, one will need CHILEANs to fill positions, working out of Chile, and globally.
KEY MANAGEMENT (not complete)
OPERATIONS & ADMINISTRATION
Bernie Guly
VP of Global Communications & Special Projects
Bernard Guly is a senior executive with extensive operational management and relationship development experience in corporate, brand, digital & marketing communications. He is a commercially astute, results driven, business facilitator and committed team leader who is recognized by staff and clients for his integrity, diplomacy and dedication to delivering best in class solutions. Mr. Guly has most recently been based in Bahrain where he grew a Kuwaiti Oil funded Middle East communications company, Miracle, to greatly enhanced sales and operational structure. He has been the Managing & Executive Director of View Strategic plc, a full service Global Media Communications Firm based in London servicing the global energy and pharmaceutical industries including British Petroleum and GlaxoSmithKline. His firm overhauled RioTinto’s global communications and website presence for presenting its commitment to Sustainable Development. Delivering both strategic consultancy and tactical communications, the agency handled brand development, communications strategy, design and digital media projects for leading international brands and FTSE 100 entities including the UK Ministry of Defence, Astra Zeneca, BlackBerry, BP, GSK, PMI, Rio Tinto & Rolls-Royce. Mr. Guly began his media/communications career working for the British Military on assignments in the Middle East. He is a seasoned global financial media consultant with proven global media managerial abilities and networking for real time re-branding of major energy sector companies. He is degreed in Business Administration from Imperial College, London.
VP of Global Communications & Special Projects
Bernard Guly is a senior executive with extensive operational management and relationship development experience in corporate, brand, digital & marketing communications. He is a commercially astute, results driven, business facilitator and committed team leader who is recognized by staff and clients for his integrity, diplomacy and dedication to delivering best in class solutions. Mr. Guly has most recently been based in Bahrain where he grew a Kuwaiti Oil funded Middle East communications company, Miracle, to greatly enhanced sales and operational structure. He has been the Managing & Executive Director of View Strategic plc, a full service Global Media Communications Firm based in London servicing the global energy and pharmaceutical industries including British Petroleum and GlaxoSmithKline. His firm overhauled RioTinto’s global communications and website presence for presenting its commitment to Sustainable Development. Delivering both strategic consultancy and tactical communications, the agency handled brand development, communications strategy, design and digital media projects for leading international brands and FTSE 100 entities including the UK Ministry of Defence, Astra Zeneca, BlackBerry, BP, GSK, PMI, Rio Tinto & Rolls-Royce. Mr. Guly began his media/communications career working for the British Military on assignments in the Middle East. He is a seasoned global financial media consultant with proven global media managerial abilities and networking for real time re-branding of major energy sector companies. He is degreed in Business Administration from Imperial College, London.
Dave McElwee
VP of Operations, Global Sales & Manufacturing, CHEBEL Companies
Mr. McElwee has owned and operated his own consulting firm as the General Manager/Market Development Manager of Marcus Materials Co. for over 20 years. He is a sought out expert in the field of ceramic materials product design, sourcing of materials, manufacturing, and supply. He has worked throughout his career with U.S. DoD and university researchers as well as OEMs to market and solve technical problems with advanced ceramics. Marcus Materials’ primary markets are armor, wear resistant, and structural ceramic markets. From 1992-1998 the company gained 7% of the US market in boron carbide by developing new applications for the material by working closely with customers. His group developed a long-term position in the armor community for the sale of boron carbide, silicon carbide, and market and material development consulting services. His firm is a leader in R&D of certain defense grade materials that supply industrial ceramic components to the defense industry worldwide. Mr. McElwee has served and maintained a long-term relationship as a consultant to assist Saint-Gobain Ceramics and Saint-Gobain Crystals in providing the military armor market with their ceramic materials, based on his experience as a composites engineer, armor design engineer, and knowledge of ceramics materials and his contacts in the armor industry. Saint-Gobain is a $60B international conglomerate with 230k Employees and is the French equivalent to General Electric with strong ties to the French nuclear power industry. He contracted to help introduce Saint-Gobain's large surface area sapphire sheet into the military armor market, an effort that has subsequently made him indispensable to this large foreign concern that also supplies the EU renewables industry.
Mr. McElwee has assisted with the ballistic specifications for military programs as well as ballistic testing. He has worked as primary technical and commercial point of contact with large DoD contractors and in this capacity has built up $22MM in sales. He has supported programs working jointly with the composites group at DuPont and is known by his peers to be a superb communicator, negotiator and manager of global engineering sales.
Mr. McElwee has his B. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware. He has taken graduate level professional development courses in quality control (Deming theory) and Statistics at the University of Delaware.
VP of Operations, Global Sales & Manufacturing, CHEBEL Companies
Mr. McElwee has owned and operated his own consulting firm as the General Manager/Market Development Manager of Marcus Materials Co. for over 20 years. He is a sought out expert in the field of ceramic materials product design, sourcing of materials, manufacturing, and supply. He has worked throughout his career with U.S. DoD and university researchers as well as OEMs to market and solve technical problems with advanced ceramics. Marcus Materials’ primary markets are armor, wear resistant, and structural ceramic markets. From 1992-1998 the company gained 7% of the US market in boron carbide by developing new applications for the material by working closely with customers. His group developed a long-term position in the armor community for the sale of boron carbide, silicon carbide, and market and material development consulting services. His firm is a leader in R&D of certain defense grade materials that supply industrial ceramic components to the defense industry worldwide. Mr. McElwee has served and maintained a long-term relationship as a consultant to assist Saint-Gobain Ceramics and Saint-Gobain Crystals in providing the military armor market with their ceramic materials, based on his experience as a composites engineer, armor design engineer, and knowledge of ceramics materials and his contacts in the armor industry. Saint-Gobain is a $60B international conglomerate with 230k Employees and is the French equivalent to General Electric with strong ties to the French nuclear power industry. He contracted to help introduce Saint-Gobain's large surface area sapphire sheet into the military armor market, an effort that has subsequently made him indispensable to this large foreign concern that also supplies the EU renewables industry.
Mr. McElwee has assisted with the ballistic specifications for military programs as well as ballistic testing. He has worked as primary technical and commercial point of contact with large DoD contractors and in this capacity has built up $22MM in sales. He has supported programs working jointly with the composites group at DuPont and is known by his peers to be a superb communicator, negotiator and manager of global engineering sales.
Mr. McElwee has his B. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware. He has taken graduate level professional development courses in quality control (Deming theory) and Statistics at the University of Delaware.
Neal Walters
Chief Financial Officer (temporary), CHEBEL Companies
Neal Walters is a Partner in A.T. Kearney’s Energy practice, based in Calgary and Toronto, and has over twenty-five years of consulting and industry experience. Neal has led several consulting engagements in oil & gas, renewable energy, utilities and other capital intensive industries, focusing on operations improvement, supply chain strategy, capital project management, investment due diligence and risk management. Prior to joining A.T. Kearney, Neal began his career with ExxonMobil and worked in their downstream division for twelve years in operations engineering, design engineering, project management, supply management and strategic planning roles. Neal holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta and an MBA from the University of Toronto.
Chief Financial Officer (temporary), CHEBEL Companies
Neal Walters is a Partner in A.T. Kearney’s Energy practice, based in Calgary and Toronto, and has over twenty-five years of consulting and industry experience. Neal has led several consulting engagements in oil & gas, renewable energy, utilities and other capital intensive industries, focusing on operations improvement, supply chain strategy, capital project management, investment due diligence and risk management. Prior to joining A.T. Kearney, Neal began his career with ExxonMobil and worked in their downstream division for twelve years in operations engineering, design engineering, project management, supply management and strategic planning roles. Neal holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta and an MBA from the University of Toronto.
Tony Pollace
CFO, Solar FUELS (Global), Inc. (proposed)
Tony has over thirty years experience in finance and general management assisting emerging and Fortune 100 companies in positions as CEO, CFO, and COO. As a seed money investor Tony advises numerous high technology Silicon Valley companies and serves as a member of the Board of Directors of four emerging ventures. Tony helped lead the formation of the ManyOne Foundations and the digital Universal Foundation. During the past 24 months, under the tax exempt status of a 501 (c ) 3, Tony assisted in the successful finding of over $18M from angel investors and philanthropic organizations including the Humane Society, Hemmingway Foundation and the National Community for Science and the Environment in Washgton DC. As CFO at Computer Motion, Tony helped structure a $30M IPO, working with a National Investment Banking Firm. Through venture capital and private placements he helped position LinuxCare for a $35M funding and IPO. Through investment bankers, venture capitalists and private investors Tony generated in excess of $50M through private placements and bridge loans domestically and in Taiwan, Singapore, and Tokoyo for companies in the Smi Conductor, Medical, Softward and eCommerce industries. During eight-year-tenure with Heraeus Surgical as CFO/Treasurer, Tony assisted in a $28 million secondary public offering to finance a corporate acquisition and establish worldwide foreign exchange banking to hedge over $10 million annually. As CFO/Treasurer at Litton Industries, he directed all finance and administration for six operating divisions in the U.S. and the Pacific rim with revenues in excess of $150 million. As a specialist in business combinations, Tony implemented countless strategic alliances, channel distribution agreements and mergers and acquisitions domestically and in Canada, Italy and Australia representing high technology Silicon Valley companies. he has extensive eperience with SEC reporting and compkiance issues, reorganizations and workouts, and human resource and investor relations´management. He has an extensive patent and copyright background and has worked closely with the USPTO and has provided management support in work with the FDA. Tony sered as the Treasurer and Chairman of the Finance Committee and is currently Member of the Board of Trustees at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He has a b.S. in Finance and Accounting, with a minor in Law and Economics from Golden Gate University and completed graduated studies towards an MBA, Santa Clara University.
CFO, Solar FUELS (Global), Inc. (proposed)
Tony has over thirty years experience in finance and general management assisting emerging and Fortune 100 companies in positions as CEO, CFO, and COO. As a seed money investor Tony advises numerous high technology Silicon Valley companies and serves as a member of the Board of Directors of four emerging ventures. Tony helped lead the formation of the ManyOne Foundations and the digital Universal Foundation. During the past 24 months, under the tax exempt status of a 501 (c ) 3, Tony assisted in the successful finding of over $18M from angel investors and philanthropic organizations including the Humane Society, Hemmingway Foundation and the National Community for Science and the Environment in Washgton DC. As CFO at Computer Motion, Tony helped structure a $30M IPO, working with a National Investment Banking Firm. Through venture capital and private placements he helped position LinuxCare for a $35M funding and IPO. Through investment bankers, venture capitalists and private investors Tony generated in excess of $50M through private placements and bridge loans domestically and in Taiwan, Singapore, and Tokoyo for companies in the Smi Conductor, Medical, Softward and eCommerce industries. During eight-year-tenure with Heraeus Surgical as CFO/Treasurer, Tony assisted in a $28 million secondary public offering to finance a corporate acquisition and establish worldwide foreign exchange banking to hedge over $10 million annually. As CFO/Treasurer at Litton Industries, he directed all finance and administration for six operating divisions in the U.S. and the Pacific rim with revenues in excess of $150 million. As a specialist in business combinations, Tony implemented countless strategic alliances, channel distribution agreements and mergers and acquisitions domestically and in Canada, Italy and Australia representing high technology Silicon Valley companies. he has extensive eperience with SEC reporting and compkiance issues, reorganizations and workouts, and human resource and investor relations´management. He has an extensive patent and copyright background and has worked closely with the USPTO and has provided management support in work with the FDA. Tony sered as the Treasurer and Chairman of the Finance Committee and is currently Member of the Board of Trustees at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He has a b.S. in Finance and Accounting, with a minor in Law and Economics from Golden Gate University and completed graduated studies towards an MBA, Santa Clara University.
Steve Comello, Ph.D.
Chief Environmental & Financial Analyst (proposed)
Dr. Comello is a Civil Engineer and Certified Financial Analyst that specializes in ecosystem service monetization. This is a novel approach being used to capitalize on the relationship between industry and the natural environment. Steve is a freshly minted Ph.D. from Stanford whom arrived after spending an initial career in financial fields based in Toronto.
Chief Environmental & Financial Analyst (proposed)
Dr. Comello is a Civil Engineer and Certified Financial Analyst that specializes in ecosystem service monetization. This is a novel approach being used to capitalize on the relationship between industry and the natural environment. Steve is a freshly minted Ph.D. from Stanford whom arrived after spending an initial career in financial fields based in Toronto.
Ruth Mauer, Ph.D.
Operations Research & Economic Analysis
Ruth Mauer is retired as Professor of OR/Economic Analysis at Colorado School of Mines. She will be instrumental in reaching out to experts in this field, tied to mining and electricity logistics for necessary analyses.
Operations Research & Economic Analysis
Ruth Mauer is retired as Professor of OR/Economic Analysis at Colorado School of Mines. She will be instrumental in reaching out to experts in this field, tied to mining and electricity logistics for necessary analyses.
Steve Holmes
CEO, GreenCOPPER, Inc. (proposed)
Steve Holmes is currently the VP of Operations at Spence Mine, Antofagasta owned by Sumitomo and Polish partners. Mr. Holmes worked for ASARCO, Phelps Dodge (PD), and Freeport MacMoran (FMX) after FMX took over PD. He was always the company lead for finding and installing leading edge technologies into operations. He left FMX after the hostile take over for new management´s decision to cut the install of MagneMotion´s linear motored conveyor belt for removal of ore, i.e. the leading edge. FMX so no reason to cut operational cost and emissions by 50% and convey belt safety hazard by 100% if the expenditure did not increase capacity output of ore. The remainder of Steve´s bio reads as having worked all of ASARCO´s properties, including in Peru.
CEO, GreenCOPPER, Inc. (proposed)
Steve Holmes is currently the VP of Operations at Spence Mine, Antofagasta owned by Sumitomo and Polish partners. Mr. Holmes worked for ASARCO, Phelps Dodge (PD), and Freeport MacMoran (FMX) after FMX took over PD. He was always the company lead for finding and installing leading edge technologies into operations. He left FMX after the hostile take over for new management´s decision to cut the install of MagneMotion´s linear motored conveyor belt for removal of ore, i.e. the leading edge. FMX so no reason to cut operational cost and emissions by 50% and convey belt safety hazard by 100% if the expenditure did not increase capacity output of ore. The remainder of Steve´s bio reads as having worked all of ASARCO´s properties, including in Peru.
Rick Robertson, B.S.,M.Arch.
Chief Architect & Urban Planner
Mr. Robertson is the head of Robertson Partners Architects, with offices in Los Angeles and New York. Most of the firm’s projects are very high-end, from estate homes in Bel Air and Beverly Hills, to luxury high-rise condominium towers and master-planned communities in Los Angeles and New York. Las Lomas (north of Los Angeles) and Setauket Village (near New York City) are seen as visionary examples of what twenty-first century planning and architecture should be. The ULI featured Las Lomas in its Urban Land
Magazine, May 2003. Richardson Robertson III is the recipient of the prestigious Star of De sign 2003, Los Angeles architect of
the year award for 2003. Previous recipients of this honor have been Frank Gehry, Charles Moore, Richard Meier and Frank Israel. A recent Robertson Partners project received the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of the Arts and Literature), France’s highest cultural award. Past recipients have included such creative legends as Picasso, Matisse and Manet.
The excellence of Mr. Robertson’s work is widely recognized and has been featured in such magazines as House & Garden, The Robb Report, Town & Country, Vanity Fair, as well as in such European magazines as, The Tattler (Great Britain) and Point de Vue (France). He has been a Visiting Lecturer at UCLA and Stanford University. Mr. Robertson is a member of the boards of both the Institute of Classical Architecture and the Bel Air Association Design Committee. He is certified to practice as an architect in all fifty states and licensed in seven. Mr. Robertson earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Southern Methodist University in 1977 and a Master of Architecture Degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 1982.
Chief Architect & Urban Planner
Mr. Robertson is the head of Robertson Partners Architects, with offices in Los Angeles and New York. Most of the firm’s projects are very high-end, from estate homes in Bel Air and Beverly Hills, to luxury high-rise condominium towers and master-planned communities in Los Angeles and New York. Las Lomas (north of Los Angeles) and Setauket Village (near New York City) are seen as visionary examples of what twenty-first century planning and architecture should be. The ULI featured Las Lomas in its Urban Land
Magazine, May 2003. Richardson Robertson III is the recipient of the prestigious Star of De sign 2003, Los Angeles architect of
the year award for 2003. Previous recipients of this honor have been Frank Gehry, Charles Moore, Richard Meier and Frank Israel. A recent Robertson Partners project received the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of the Arts and Literature), France’s highest cultural award. Past recipients have included such creative legends as Picasso, Matisse and Manet.
The excellence of Mr. Robertson’s work is widely recognized and has been featured in such magazines as House & Garden, The Robb Report, Town & Country, Vanity Fair, as well as in such European magazines as, The Tattler (Great Britain) and Point de Vue (France). He has been a Visiting Lecturer at UCLA and Stanford University. Mr. Robertson is a member of the boards of both the Institute of Classical Architecture and the Bel Air Association Design Committee. He is certified to practice as an architect in all fifty states and licensed in seven. Mr. Robertson earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Southern Methodist University in 1977 and a Master of Architecture Degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 1982.
Ron Roller
VP of Energy Sales
Ron Roller is an experienced business management and sales professional in both service and product industries. He has negotiated major contracts for over 30 years in the oil, gas, coal, and electricity industries. He has a natural ability to effectively interface with all levels of personnel and management, oversee new business start-up activity, domestic or international, while successfully directing sales. Mr. Roller has been Sales Manager and Head of Project Management for Williams Energy Services, Excel Energy Technologies, Ltd., Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Oklahoma, and Carbomin Group. He was President of Patch Coal Company and also served as the VP and GM of Owensboro Coal Dock where he turned around an operation that had $500,000 in delinquent receivables, no current customers, no money and in need of mechanical repair. While working for Reading & Bates Offshore Drilling Company, he served as the Foreign Administrator to India managing the overall function with Indira Gandhi’s government for the first well ever drilling offshore India. In this capacity, he found himself assisting India’s Ministers of Finance, Petroleum, Defense, and Foreign Affairs in developing rules and guidelines to establish this new industry, offshore drilling, in India. He served as Director of Business Administration and Director of Sales of R&B’s Coal Division, and as Foreign Resource Accountant to the Oil & Gas Division analyzing all revenue transactions from company operations worldwide.
VP of Energy Sales
Ron Roller is an experienced business management and sales professional in both service and product industries. He has negotiated major contracts for over 30 years in the oil, gas, coal, and electricity industries. He has a natural ability to effectively interface with all levels of personnel and management, oversee new business start-up activity, domestic or international, while successfully directing sales. Mr. Roller has been Sales Manager and Head of Project Management for Williams Energy Services, Excel Energy Technologies, Ltd., Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Oklahoma, and Carbomin Group. He was President of Patch Coal Company and also served as the VP and GM of Owensboro Coal Dock where he turned around an operation that had $500,000 in delinquent receivables, no current customers, no money and in need of mechanical repair. While working for Reading & Bates Offshore Drilling Company, he served as the Foreign Administrator to India managing the overall function with Indira Gandhi’s government for the first well ever drilling offshore India. In this capacity, he found himself assisting India’s Ministers of Finance, Petroleum, Defense, and Foreign Affairs in developing rules and guidelines to establish this new industry, offshore drilling, in India. He served as Director of Business Administration and Director of Sales of R&B’s Coal Division, and as Foreign Resource Accountant to the Oil & Gas Division analyzing all revenue transactions from company operations worldwide.
Ray Paricio
VP of Global Relations
Ray Paricio has worked as Head of International Sales for Coors Ceramics, now ACX Technologies, capping his 30+year career working for the Coors companies. Mr. Paricio has developed an extensive background in the properties, characteristics and application of advanced ceramics technologies and in the current state of ceramics market conditions. He will assist in setting up manufacturing plants for production of mirrors and Solar Ceramics™ for use in CHEBEL’s Solar & Hydrogen Refineries™ and in the global marketing of CHEBEL products and services.
Mr. Paricio has serviced industries ranging from refining, mining, defense, and the electrical power industry. He is respected throughout his field of materials engineering for industrial applications. Mr. Paricio studied Civil Engineering and Business Administration at the University of Colorado Boulder and has most recently been a consultant to the ceramic armor industry serving defense needs.
VP of Global Relations
Ray Paricio has worked as Head of International Sales for Coors Ceramics, now ACX Technologies, capping his 30+year career working for the Coors companies. Mr. Paricio has developed an extensive background in the properties, characteristics and application of advanced ceramics technologies and in the current state of ceramics market conditions. He will assist in setting up manufacturing plants for production of mirrors and Solar Ceramics™ for use in CHEBEL’s Solar & Hydrogen Refineries™ and in the global marketing of CHEBEL products and services.
Mr. Paricio has serviced industries ranging from refining, mining, defense, and the electrical power industry. He is respected throughout his field of materials engineering for industrial applications. Mr. Paricio studied Civil Engineering and Business Administration at the University of Colorado Boulder and has most recently been a consultant to the ceramic armor industry serving defense needs.
ENGINEERING
Pete Silvaggio, Ph.D.
VP of Program Management & Systems Integration, CHEBEL Companies (proposed)
Chief Executive Officer, Universal Design Science Engineering (proposed)
Dr. Pete Silvaggio has been an engineer in the Schafer Corporation Denver Operation, retiring as its General Manager with the company with over thirty (30) years of experience in advanced technology programs and their cost analysis. His work encompassed basic research, systems engineering, space and ground experiment test planning, spacecraft instrumentation, ground test facilities, and foreign aerospace technology assessment. He has held a position as a senior member of the technical staff, major shareholder, and Vice President – Contracts for SID Corporation. He was responsible for contract administration, proposal preparation, contract negotiations as well as providing technical support. Dr. Silvaggio has supported US-Russian technology interactions supporting areas of Materials and Structures, Directed Energy and Innovative Science and Technology. All three of these tasks required on-site assessments of multiple Russian Scientific Institutes and organizations.
Dr. Silvaggio has spent his career in applied physics leading numerous government programs and research opportunities in the areas of space systems architecture and military utility studies. He has lead and managed conceptual/preliminary design teams for space systems and/or their payloads always executing Systems Engineering, Integration and Tests for space systems. Programs he has been involved in and/or led have included Space Based Lasers, Space Based Interceptors, and space surveillance, reconnaissance and tracking systems. He has supported Lockheed-Martin activities in the area of High Energy Laser Affordability and Architecture studies since 1998. Within this area, Dr. Silvaggio conducted trades of system performance versus projected system cost for a mixed space architecture that included Space Based Lasers, Bifocal Relay Mirrors, Ground Based Lasers, and Advanced Airborne Lasers.
Early in his career, Dr. Silvaggio was employed by the Martin Marietta Astronautics Group in Denver (now Lockheed Martin Astronautics) as a senior engineer/manager. Prior to this, he worked for five years at University Of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Silvaggio served in the capacity of Project Group Leader in the Evaluation and Planning Division of nuclear programs. He presented the results of this work before numerous groups including the White House Science Council, the JASONs, the Fletcher Committee, as well as before senior officials of the DOE and DOD.
He was an NRC Post-Doctoral Fellow 1977-1979, and the author/co-author of several papers in the area of remotes sensing of planetary atmospheres, including the discovery of methane ice on Pluto and Triton. Dr. Silvaggio earned his Ph.D., and M.S. degrees in Physics from Cornell University where Carl Sagan was his thesis advisor and his B.S. in Physics from Syracuse University where he was Valedictorian.
VP of Program Management & Systems Integration, CHEBEL Companies (proposed)
Chief Executive Officer, Universal Design Science Engineering (proposed)
Dr. Pete Silvaggio has been an engineer in the Schafer Corporation Denver Operation, retiring as its General Manager with the company with over thirty (30) years of experience in advanced technology programs and their cost analysis. His work encompassed basic research, systems engineering, space and ground experiment test planning, spacecraft instrumentation, ground test facilities, and foreign aerospace technology assessment. He has held a position as a senior member of the technical staff, major shareholder, and Vice President – Contracts for SID Corporation. He was responsible for contract administration, proposal preparation, contract negotiations as well as providing technical support. Dr. Silvaggio has supported US-Russian technology interactions supporting areas of Materials and Structures, Directed Energy and Innovative Science and Technology. All three of these tasks required on-site assessments of multiple Russian Scientific Institutes and organizations.
Dr. Silvaggio has spent his career in applied physics leading numerous government programs and research opportunities in the areas of space systems architecture and military utility studies. He has lead and managed conceptual/preliminary design teams for space systems and/or their payloads always executing Systems Engineering, Integration and Tests for space systems. Programs he has been involved in and/or led have included Space Based Lasers, Space Based Interceptors, and space surveillance, reconnaissance and tracking systems. He has supported Lockheed-Martin activities in the area of High Energy Laser Affordability and Architecture studies since 1998. Within this area, Dr. Silvaggio conducted trades of system performance versus projected system cost for a mixed space architecture that included Space Based Lasers, Bifocal Relay Mirrors, Ground Based Lasers, and Advanced Airborne Lasers.
Early in his career, Dr. Silvaggio was employed by the Martin Marietta Astronautics Group in Denver (now Lockheed Martin Astronautics) as a senior engineer/manager. Prior to this, he worked for five years at University Of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Silvaggio served in the capacity of Project Group Leader in the Evaluation and Planning Division of nuclear programs. He presented the results of this work before numerous groups including the White House Science Council, the JASONs, the Fletcher Committee, as well as before senior officials of the DOE and DOD.
He was an NRC Post-Doctoral Fellow 1977-1979, and the author/co-author of several papers in the area of remotes sensing of planetary atmospheres, including the discovery of methane ice on Pluto and Triton. Dr. Silvaggio earned his Ph.D., and M.S. degrees in Physics from Cornell University where Carl Sagan was his thesis advisor and his B.S. in Physics from Syracuse University where he was Valedictorian.
Franklin Mead, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist, CHEBEL Companies
Chief Technology Officer, Universal LINC Space
Dr. Mead was academically trained as a mechanical and aerospace engineer in the thermal sciences (thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and heat transfer), electric propulsion, and plasma dynamics (including fusion). He has over 35 year's experience with advanced propulsion and energy concepts, is a nationally recognized expert in the subject, and is skilled in the multi-discipline aspects of "advanced" physics & engineering technology. His professional experience has involved 38 years of experimental and program/contract management of R&D level and advanced development efforts, including flight experiments and demonstrations with the United States Air Force at Edwards AFB CA. While with the Air Force, Dr. Mead searched for innovative and revolutionary propulsion concepts in pursuit of paradigm altering, as well as evolutionary, concepts that would enhance the Air Force's mission capability; and directed for 8 years the Experimental 50-cm Laser Ramjet (X-50LR) propulsion development program. Typical advanced concepts he has worked on include fusion propulsion, various plasma concepts, unified field theory, zero point vacuum energy, magnetic field propulsion, teleportation, and faster-than-light travel. Experience also includes having worked on Air Force programs of various chemical, electric, solar, and nuclear propulsion thrusters and system concepts. Dr. Mead is currently a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the vice president of the American Institute of Beamed Energy Propulsion (AIBEP).
Chief Scientist, CHEBEL Companies
Chief Technology Officer, Universal LINC Space
Dr. Mead was academically trained as a mechanical and aerospace engineer in the thermal sciences (thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and heat transfer), electric propulsion, and plasma dynamics (including fusion). He has over 35 year's experience with advanced propulsion and energy concepts, is a nationally recognized expert in the subject, and is skilled in the multi-discipline aspects of "advanced" physics & engineering technology. His professional experience has involved 38 years of experimental and program/contract management of R&D level and advanced development efforts, including flight experiments and demonstrations with the United States Air Force at Edwards AFB CA. While with the Air Force, Dr. Mead searched for innovative and revolutionary propulsion concepts in pursuit of paradigm altering, as well as evolutionary, concepts that would enhance the Air Force's mission capability; and directed for 8 years the Experimental 50-cm Laser Ramjet (X-50LR) propulsion development program. Typical advanced concepts he has worked on include fusion propulsion, various plasma concepts, unified field theory, zero point vacuum energy, magnetic field propulsion, teleportation, and faster-than-light travel. Experience also includes having worked on Air Force programs of various chemical, electric, solar, and nuclear propulsion thrusters and system concepts. Dr. Mead is currently a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the vice president of the American Institute of Beamed Energy Propulsion (AIBEP).
Name Not for Disclosure, M.S., B.S. (CONFIDENTIAL)
Chief Engineer
The Chief Engineer is a seasoned career systems engineering program manager, having entered the Aerospace industry in the 1970s. As a Chemical Engineer and Program Manager, he led a Rockwell team that executed the design-build of the Solar Thermal Central Receiver Panels, Thermal Storage and related control systems known as Solar I. He has immense hands on experience in the management of complex systems engineering programs requiring integrated product teams working with functional groups, subcontractors, all requiring project specific value reporting, forecasts, and staffing. He has managed hardware development from conception to assembly through testing to commissioning. While at Boeing, he led an entrepreneurial section that successfully marketed engineering services to outside clients and vendors. He has consistently applied Business Process Streamlining methods, led highly complex bid proposal preparation teams, as well as developed curriculum for in-house instruction ranging from Proposal Process to Management Skills, and Robotics.
He has a broad foundation in; high energy density mechanical systems, chemical and manufacturing processes, business development and lessons learned, and best engineering and management practices. Specific experiences come from: Management of 44 System Development and Test Engineers, leading the engine system hardware effort for the Aerospike X-33 Rocket Engine involving the tracking of 700 activities, and guiding a team of 65 internal people and 12 subcontractors - with a budget of $18M. Other project management background includes; Test facility implementation, Ozone-depleting and Hazardous Materials Elimination, Control & Monitoring Systems Design, Robotic Welding Implementation, IR&D Leadership for Molten Salt Corrosion Inhibitor Development.
He has won numerous awards, both professional and community outreach, and published numerous technical papers. He has taken a multitude of Advanced Study classes in Systems Engineering & Program Management, including the Systems Engineering curriculum of the Defense Systems Management College.
He earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Worchester Polytechnic Institute, and a Masters in Knowledge Management from California State University, Northridge.
Chief Engineer
The Chief Engineer is a seasoned career systems engineering program manager, having entered the Aerospace industry in the 1970s. As a Chemical Engineer and Program Manager, he led a Rockwell team that executed the design-build of the Solar Thermal Central Receiver Panels, Thermal Storage and related control systems known as Solar I. He has immense hands on experience in the management of complex systems engineering programs requiring integrated product teams working with functional groups, subcontractors, all requiring project specific value reporting, forecasts, and staffing. He has managed hardware development from conception to assembly through testing to commissioning. While at Boeing, he led an entrepreneurial section that successfully marketed engineering services to outside clients and vendors. He has consistently applied Business Process Streamlining methods, led highly complex bid proposal preparation teams, as well as developed curriculum for in-house instruction ranging from Proposal Process to Management Skills, and Robotics.
He has a broad foundation in; high energy density mechanical systems, chemical and manufacturing processes, business development and lessons learned, and best engineering and management practices. Specific experiences come from: Management of 44 System Development and Test Engineers, leading the engine system hardware effort for the Aerospike X-33 Rocket Engine involving the tracking of 700 activities, and guiding a team of 65 internal people and 12 subcontractors - with a budget of $18M. Other project management background includes; Test facility implementation, Ozone-depleting and Hazardous Materials Elimination, Control & Monitoring Systems Design, Robotic Welding Implementation, IR&D Leadership for Molten Salt Corrosion Inhibitor Development.
He has won numerous awards, both professional and community outreach, and published numerous technical papers. He has taken a multitude of Advanced Study classes in Systems Engineering & Program Management, including the Systems Engineering curriculum of the Defense Systems Management College.
He earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Worchester Polytechnic Institute, and a Masters in Knowledge Management from California State University, Northridge.
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VP of Project & Program Management
As part of a 29 year career with a major U.S. defense contractor, he has participated in some of the world’s most cutting-edge, technology-rich projects involving energy, space and aircraft markets. He spent 20 years in project, systems and development engineering in energy, space and aircraft programs. After to joining its business development, Stan has consistently successfully led growth for his employer per the pursuit of commercial contracts, government procurements, and acquisitions.
He has been developing the latest generation of concentrated solar power parabolic trough collectors and advanced linear Fresnel concentrators for a U.S. funded solar renewable start-up. As Vice President of Advanced Systems, he has the responsibilities for developing and validating the solar technology and also engaging in project development activities related to integrating utilities’ and developers’ existing fossil fuel plants so as to become solar hybrid applications.
As a result of his business development and engineering experience, he developed an extensive network of corporate and personal relationships in a variety of fields and functions providing him the opportunity to create the best teams possible to tackle new challenges.
He established a reputation and track record as a reliable, go-to person especially for first-of-a-kind pursuits in previously, uncharted business areas that potentially offer large rewards. He proved himself especially in large value projects that require understanding the market drivers, customer needs and requirements, company goals and objectives, and subsequently, crafting a solution that achieves customer acceptance resulting in successful business capture.
He has both depth and breadth of experience managing large scale projects in the following areas as applied to systems engineering and implementation: he attended the U.S. Naval Academy as a Midshipman (1974-1976), graduated with a Bachelor of Science Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University (1979), and received his Masters in Business Administration from Pepperdine University (1983). He has attended continuing courses in Systems Engineering, Hypersonic Propulsion, Marketing, International Traffic and Arms Regulations, Ethics and Diversity.
VP of Project & Program Management
As part of a 29 year career with a major U.S. defense contractor, he has participated in some of the world’s most cutting-edge, technology-rich projects involving energy, space and aircraft markets. He spent 20 years in project, systems and development engineering in energy, space and aircraft programs. After to joining its business development, Stan has consistently successfully led growth for his employer per the pursuit of commercial contracts, government procurements, and acquisitions.
He has been developing the latest generation of concentrated solar power parabolic trough collectors and advanced linear Fresnel concentrators for a U.S. funded solar renewable start-up. As Vice President of Advanced Systems, he has the responsibilities for developing and validating the solar technology and also engaging in project development activities related to integrating utilities’ and developers’ existing fossil fuel plants so as to become solar hybrid applications.
As a result of his business development and engineering experience, he developed an extensive network of corporate and personal relationships in a variety of fields and functions providing him the opportunity to create the best teams possible to tackle new challenges.
He established a reputation and track record as a reliable, go-to person especially for first-of-a-kind pursuits in previously, uncharted business areas that potentially offer large rewards. He proved himself especially in large value projects that require understanding the market drivers, customer needs and requirements, company goals and objectives, and subsequently, crafting a solution that achieves customer acceptance resulting in successful business capture.
He has both depth and breadth of experience managing large scale projects in the following areas as applied to systems engineering and implementation: he attended the U.S. Naval Academy as a Midshipman (1974-1976), graduated with a Bachelor of Science Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University (1979), and received his Masters in Business Administration from Pepperdine University (1983). He has attended continuing courses in Systems Engineering, Hypersonic Propulsion, Marketing, International Traffic and Arms Regulations, Ethics and Diversity.
Richard Dasher, Ph.D.
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