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C. Gary Gelinas, Founder & CEO, has over thirty five years of experience in the clean-tech and environmental technology industry. He has been a proven leader in developing innovative solutions and profitable businesses models which solve complex environmental issues using advanced applied technology. He executed a national and international sales and marketing strategy to Fortune 100 companies where he double and tripled sales annually and achieved profitability in a short timeframe. Prior to founding WaterLink Systems, he was co-founder and CEO of SAFER Emergency Systems, Inc, a California based company using UNIX based light-pen driven systems for tracking gas and liquid releases of hazardous chemicals in the atmosphere with real-time meteorological data. He sold this unique and niche business (which maintained 90% marketshare) to E. I. DuPont. His company achieved peak profit margins at the time of the acquisition. He has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado, a M.S. in Earth Resources from Colorado State University, and partial fulfillment of an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Tom M. Calderon, Director of Governmental Affairs, brings a quarter of a century experience in California on Governmental Affairs and Legislation on Water Issues. He founded the Calderon Group specializing in public affairs and political strategies. He has a broad spectrum of business relationships in both real estate development and water utilities. He was elected to the California State Assembly in 1998, where he became one of the leaders of the Moderate Democratic Caucus. He served as the Chair of the Select Committee on Ground Water Contamination. As an Assembly Member, he forced the historic clean-up of the single largest groundwater "Super Fund" site in the nation. He formed the first California legislative Water Caucus Committee to address the state's extensive list of water related issues. He also authored groundbreaking legislation that serves as model for groundwater clean-up, returning valuable water resources to drinking standards. During the energy crisis, he successfully negotiated legislation that facilitated the building and retrofitting of power plants, while protecting the authority of regional air quality districts in the setting of local air standards.

Barry Ziskin, Director of Energy and Water Efficiency, has worked in the Solar and Wind Energy field for private companies in California and became a Financial Analyst for Renewable Energy Ventures, installer of over $100 million in wind turbines in California and Hawaii. He was also Vice President of Atmospheric Research and Technology where he design wind turbine monitoring systems. He has studied at U.C. Santa Barbara Department of Environmental Studies and U.C. Berkeley School of Natural Resources. He interned at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Solar Water Heating research funded by Southern California Edison and Southern California Gas. He also worked on Renewable Energy projects for U.C. Berkeley, the National Science Foundation, and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BS in Conservation of Natural Resources and received a MS in Energy and Resources at U.C. Berkeley. He also has a law degree from U.C. Davis and practices Environmental Law.

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.

 

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