Board of Directors

David Block

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
boonesbiz@aol.com

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
bud.bromley@outlook.com

Mr. Clare (Bud) Bromley graduated with a BS degree from Mercer University in Chemistry, with a Natural Sciences Concentration.

He 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, No. US 7,571,056 B2 for digital signal processing for multiple scientific instruments.

Robert G. Fulks

Director
bfulks@bobfulks.com

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.

David Glenwinkel

Director
david@taxcite.com

David Glenwinkel was the co-founder of USCL corporation along with Tom Tamarkin in 1995.

David Glenwinkel is a seasoned business developer and consultant to significant companies in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Africa. David is also a world class adventure traveler.

Character, who you really are, is always revealed over time. Married for 48 years to his high school best friend, Linda, having raised six children to successful adulthood, and having had a global impact in the world of business and charity, David has also founded businesses that have endured successfully for more than 40 years, with an amazing track record of endurance and permanence. Long term success, according to David, is failure based. “Overcoming failure and building on our treasure house of personal and team experience is the firebrand of transformational learning and enduring success”.

CEO of Executive Management Solutions, Inc. (Taxcite.com) and founder of multiple enduring businesses, David leverages his experiences and business acumen in whatever he does:

Executive Management Solutions, established in 2001 to provide Elite Tax Planning and Business Management Services to significant corporate clients around the world. Executive Management Solutions provides expert tax planning to U.S. companies doing business in multiple States and many foreign countries.
El Dorado Land and Development, established in 1993 (Now IDM Endeavors, LLC) initially as a personal investment portfolio, IDM is focused on long term small cap commercial real estate and real estate backed securities. The fund experienced real market value net growth in the worst of times, 2007, 2008, and 2009 when the overall market fell by more than 47%, then endured, survived and fully recovered the catastrophic economic consequences suffered from 2008 through 2012. In the collapse of the market, EDLD experienced the same value decline as many real estate based firms, but due to low leverage and experienced management, the fund endured and fully recovered.
Western Sierra Business Services, Inc, tax and business management firm founder, 1993, providing tax and business services to over 3200 corporate and individual clients (most of those being entrepreneurs) in 35 states and several countries. David sold the practice in 2007 to the employees, and it continues successfully today and David still collaborates with the firm on a consulting basis.
Tax Strategist, starting in 1968 David began managing the tax aspects of his father’s business (while working for the family accountant).
Master’s in Taxation, Washington School of Law 1999.
Enrolled Agent certified by the U.S. Department of Treasury to Represent Taxpayers in Matters of Taxation
Bachelor of Science, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Ca, 1976.
Co-chair of the Republican National Committee to Restructure the IRS (Bush Appointment); 2000 – 2002. (Two Consecutive Appointments.
David has Traveled to more than 70 countries including unguided treks across Africa, climbing Mt Kilimanjaro at age 48 in 2002 and again in 2021. He has driven and trekked through the central great lakes region of Africa over 7,000 Kilometers from Nairobi to Cape Town, and has been working in insurgency areas of the D.R. Congo, Burundi, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone and Liberia and a dozen other countries for 22 years as Founder of Viable Community Initiatives.
Former Host of “Real Talk on Money, Real Estate and Taxes, on Sacramento Radio Station 1380.

On the Community front David is the Founder and Program Developer of Viable Community Initiatives. Today in Africa VCI has programs in 19 African nations and more than 18,000 member communities, (www.vcinitiatives.org). Tens of thousands of VCI Members meet in small project groups across the Sub Sahara, participate the VCI Outcomes for Life and Outcomes for Business programs, with a community focus on Outcomes for Children. These new entrepreneurs feed and care for their own widows and orphans using the resources they have on hand utilizing the principles of transformative Community Development developed over the past two decades by David.

Emily J. Pettit
Director
emily@energycite.com

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
mschw136@aol.com

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@energycite.com

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
valentina.zharkova@northumbria.ac.uk

Website: Solar GSM

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/