Leah Murakami, Director of Conservation, has worked with water utilities, corporate level property owners, landscape maintenance contractors and property management companies on water conservation projects for almost 5 years. Her experience includes directing and managing the collection of historical water consumption data, meter verification, site maps, and other information needed to quantify potential water savings related to landscapes and irrigation. She has presented and reported actual achieved water and cost savings to property managers, utility conservation specialists, and a number of Board of Directors. She has been instrumental in obtaining significant financial incentives and cash rebates to property owners based on measured water savings achieved, in addition to the net savings derived from the conservation program implemented at the property site. She graduated with honors from UC Santa Barbara and studied at the University of Padua, Italy.  She was an officer in the US Air Force as a pilot for KC-135, Stratotanker and the F-16 Fighting Falcon.

Michael J. Oliver, Director of Technology, has over 30 years of software design, hardware integration, and embedded system applications. He has developed, designed, coded, and tested environmental control and monitoring systems with telecommunications interface. He has managed the development of real-time meteorological data acquisition, feedback loops, data packet protocols, command structures, data communications, graphics interface, and scientific modeling algorithms. He has an extensive background in weather instrumentation, network integration, environmental modeling, software, irrigation water management, and is the author of a two patent applications on evapotranspiration and forecasted meteorology. He received a B.S. in Environmental Engineering in 1978 from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo and is a State of California certified irrigation water auditor.

Robert Kulakowski, Advisor and Investor, is co-founder of Verimatrix, which was named as the IPTV content security leader by the MRG group and rated by TelecomView as current market leader and projected to remain as leader through 2012 with over 30% market share. His inventions and approach to security positioned the business as most innovative security technology developer in the IPTV industry. In a span of 3 years, he established the leadership position by recruiting a world-class management team and by executing on product delivery and performance. He served as CTO and established an engineering processes that later resulted in ISO 9000 certification. He participated in raising venture capital for the company. Leading the team on collaborative system design, he architected a unique, scalable, and deployable security system that now includes a partner ecosystem of over 80 world-wide partners in Asia, Europe, Russia, and South America. Prior to Verimatrix, he was co-founder of Internet Magic (fax over IP) that was sold to the Dialogic group of Intel. In early 90’s, he developed a micro-TCP stack that he sold to Conexant Systems. He has over 25 years of experience in leading-edge computer, data communications, and security product design, 7 issued patents and 14 pending patents, extensive intellectual property research and has been founder and co-founder of venture backed companies that secured over $28 million in venture capital.

Assemblyman Thomas Calderon, Director of Government Affairs and Board Member, was the founder of the California Water Caucus. He is the managing partner of the Calderon Group a government relations advisory firm. Tom brings significant background, expertise and relationships on the public policy and legislative side.