David Block
Director
Serial entrepreneur with decades of management and hands-on experience with tech, marketing, physical production, and media production related businesses.
KESS Technologies, Partner. Patented desalination technology.
Currently, Nevada Newsmakers, Director. Video and audio production for state-wide tv, radio, podcast and web program.
Pat Boone
Director
Vice President of Investor Relations Investor
Author, singer, actor and entertainer Pat Boone graduated from Columbia University magna cum laude. As a recording artist he still holds the Billboard Magazine record for spending 220 consecutive weeks on the charts. The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom aired for 115 episodes when Pat was just 23 years old. He is the author of many books including the number one bestseller, “Twixt Twelve and Twenty” and the star of many films. Pat has written extensively on the future of fossil fuels and power generation with a focus on the need for the development and commercialization of fusion energy. In February 2011 Pat became become the official EnergyCite spokesperson. Pat’s focus has been on investor and media relations as well as the building of relationships with senior leaders in the federal U.S. government including the White House and the Department of Energy. Pat is an investor in EnergyCite, a co-founder of EnergyCite LTD, and a member of the board of directors of EnergyCite Inc. Pat lives in Beverly Hills, California.
Clare (Bud) Bromley
Director
Vice President Scientific Research
Mr. Clare (Bud) Bromley was Vice President or Senior VP and the senior business development, marketing and sales executive at four public corporations; each company a supplier of scientific instrumentation and software. Prior to those positions, his 19-year career in Hewlett-Packard Company’s Analytical Products Group (APG) included worldwide sales and marketing responsibility for Bioscience Products, Global Accounts and 18 years setting up and managing HP’s scientific instruments business, with the International Olympic Committee’s network of laboratories for testing drug abuse in sports. In addition to that responsibility, Mr. Bromley managed the HP APG’s business in Latin America and South Africa from Mexico City for 4 years, and managed HP APG’s business in Japan and Korea from Tokyo for 4 years. In such capacity he visited professionally and did business in more than 65 countries.
Mr. Bromley has a range of experience with scientific measurements, including analysis by chromatography, spectrophotometry, mass spectrometry, DNA & protein sequencing, genetic mutations, gene expression, and genetic diagnostics, PCR, and digital signal processing across a wide range of industries, academia and government. For example, in 1978 he designed modifications for a gas chromatograph system for continuously monitoring carbon dioxide (CO2) and ethylene on ships transporting bananas and trained the operators.
Mr. Bromley was Senior Vice President at Molecular Dynamics leading the worldwide sales and marketing organization that helped design and then sold and serviced the high throughput DNA sequencers for the human genome project.
As Vice President of a publicly listed NASA/JPL/Caltech spinoff company in Pasadena, he was co-inventor on a U.S. patent for digital signal processing for multiple scientific instruments.
Robert G. Fulks
Director
Robert Fulks developed the first fully automatic bridge for measuring capacitance, an important parameter of electronic components, and the first commercial test system for printed circuit board assemblies containing complex digital logic circuits. His career accomplishments are of lasting significance to the field of electronic test measurements; improving the efficiency and significantly reducing the cost of system and component manufacturing. His systems have been used by major computer companies as well as the U.S. Navy to test and repair circuit boards at field repair sites, on ships and in submarines. Mr. Fulks is former chairman of the IEEE committee that developed the HPIB (IEEE-488) instrumentation interface standard and a former chairman of the Boston section of the IEEE Group on Instrumentation and Measurement that later became an IEEE society. He also is past chairman of the Advanced Automatic Test Equipment Concepts committee for the U.S. Navy. He holds 10 patents and has published numerous papers in the area of electronic measurement. Mr. Fulks obtained his undergraduate and masters degrees in electronic engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Mr. Fulks was instrumental in the establishment of the Mizar discotheque lighting company in Phoenix Arizona in the late 1970s and was an investor and served as Chairman of the Board of Texcon Corp, developers of the Allegro Mentor AI (artificial intelligence) based piano teaching system from 1981-1984, also in Phoenix. Both firms were formed by Tom Tamarkin, founder of EnergyCite.
Don London
Director & Investor
Don London is the founder, owner, and operator of Capitol Ace Hardware located in downtown Sacramento, California. As such, Don is very familiar with the various commercially available “smart thermostats”, load control devices, and energy conservations products. Prior to the organization of Capitol Ace Hardware, Don owned and operated London Construction, a successful home building company of higher end residential properties in the Sacramento and Elk Grove areas. Don is one of the first major private investors in USCL, as the company developed the first modern smart meter technology and led Southern California Edison, the nation’s largest electrical utility to embrace and adopt the smart meter technology. Don’s focus today is the building of EnergyCite’s retail distribution network consisting of hardware stores throughout all fifty states. Don lives in Somerset, California.
Emily J. Pettit
Director
Emily is currently Corporate VP and Corporate Secretary of EnergyCite, Inc where she currently does administrative, marketing, and bookkeeping functions. Emily was raised in a southern suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio and has since lived in Arizona, Texas, Nevada and California. In the early 1980s, Emily worked for a division of Reliant Electric and later a division of Motorola both located in Tempe, Arizona. In 1985 Emily became the Administrative assistant at Dallas Jewish Family Services (JFS) in Dallas Texas, and reported to JFS’s Managing Director. In 1995, Emily became Corporate VP and Corporate Secretary of USCL Corporation, an electronics manufacturing firm located in California founded by Tom Tamarkin. Emily worked as the USCL administrative assistant and bookkeeper were she prepared the monthly bank reconciliations and financial statements for the firm’s CEO. Emily worked in that capacity through 2011 although in 1998 to 2000 she was the full time Director of Administration for Mosaic Law Congregation, North Central California’s largest Conservative Synagogue, where she reported jointly to the Rabbi and the synagogue’s Board of Director’s president. While at USCL, Emily made numerous international business trips to mainland China, Israel, and portions of the EU. Creative by nature, she has expanded her expertise in graphic design, desktop, and internet publishing for her employers as well as volunteering her services for charitable organizations and events. She has also planned and executed various special events. Work history: EnergyCite, LTD, member/secretary from July 21, 2015 – present.
Rabbi Avi Schwartz
Director & VP Digital Marketing
Rabbi Avi Schwartz is an experienced digital and multimedia producer with strong skills in social media advertising. He is also an accomplished public speaker, filmmaker, and motivational leader. Rabbi Avi serves as a member of the “Truth in Textbooks” Academic Advisory Board. Rabbi Avi’s book, “Through Fire and Water” has a five star rating on Amazon and is available in paperback and electronic Kindle book format. He attended The Bronx High School of Science graduating with honors in 1982. He received his BA degree from Queens College, CUNY, in 1988 and his MA degree from Queens College, CUNY in 1991. Rabbi Avi obtained his rabbinical education at Yeshiva, Mesivta Tifereth Yerusalem in New York and became an ordained orthodox rabbi in 1997. In 2001 Rabbi Avi obtained a filmmaking degree in writing & directing from the prestigious New York Film Academy. Rabbi Avi has dual American and State of Israel citizenship and lives in Zichron Yaacov, Israel. Rabbi Avi is a founding director of EnergyCite, Inc., and serves as its VP Digital Marketing.
Tom Tamarkin
Founder, President & CEO
Tom Tamarkin is the founder, president & CEO of EnergyCite Inc. He is also the founder & managing director of EnergyCite LTD, a special purpose vehicle organized to manage the reorganization of the Utility Service Customer Link (USCL) entity, and the transfer of technology to EnergyCite Inc. As president of USCL, Mr. Tamarkin was responsible for the design and introduction of the modern utility smart meter in the U.S. He has been an advocate of providing real-time energy data and control methods to electric, gas and water customers to enable them to conserve energy and save money. Mr. Tamarkin is the past founder and president of Tamar Corporation who invented the smart electric, gas, and water meters in 1990. In the mid-80s, he was the vice president & general manager of Datamatic Inc, a leader in utility meter reading systems & billing software. Mr. Tamarkin has been granted 7 patents the U.S., Israel, China, and the E.U. in the smart meter and systems topology field. He was named an industry pioneer in 2013 by “Smart Grid Today,” the nation’s leading publication on utility grid operations. Mr. Tamarkin lives in Carmichael, California with Emily Tamarkin, his wife of forty-two years. For a comprehensive bio/resume of Tom Tamarkin see: https://fusion4freedom.com/category/history/
Valentina Zharkova
Director
Professor, Department: Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University, NewCastle, UK
Graduated with first class with distinction degree in Applied Math from Kiev National University, Kiev, Ukraine (1975); did PhD in Astrophysics ‘Radiative transfer of solar prominences’ at Main Astronomical Observatory, Kiev, Ukraine, viva in 1984. Worked as Researcher/Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer at KNU (1975-1994). In 1992 moved to Glasgow University, UK as Senior Research Fellow to investigate energetic particles in solar flares. Discovered sunquakes induced by flaring processes, published a paper in Nature, 1998 with wide media coverage. In 2000 moved to Bradford University as Lecturer, then Reader (2002) and Professor of Applied Mathematics (2005). Joined Northumbria University in September 2013 as Professor of Mathematics. Taught the key Maths and Physics modules. Published more then 200 papers, from which 3 papers in Nature group journals (during work at NU), one of the papers was predicting the modern Grand Solar Minimum (2020-2053). Published a monograph on particle kinetics, was an Editor a book on automated recognition and classification of digital images and the RHESSI book on high energy particles. Also published 18 chapters in other books. Received funding from European Commission, EPSRC, STFC, the Royal society, the RAS and US Airforce. At NU was the MPEE department Lead in international affairs (2014-2016) and in Equality and Diversity (2018-2020.
AWARDS
SOHO/MDO team award for discovery of sunquake (1999), RHESSI award for outstanding research (2005), NSF US award for advanced studies of solar flares (2002)
Dr. Valentina Zharkova is a member of London Mathematical Society (LMS), European Mathematical Society (EMS), European Physics Society (EPS), Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), International Astronomical Union (IAU) and COSPAR (Committee on Space Research).
She is the author of: “ Electron and Proton Kinetics and Dynamics in Flaring Atmospheres” (at Amazon)
Dr. Zharkova’s complete biographical information and list of important papers, etc., may be found at:https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/z/valentina-zharkova/