Rinaldo Brutoco
Founder, Chairman and CEO
Co-Founder/Board, JUST Capital; Chair, Finance & Audit Committee; 15+ years – Renewable energy; 25+ years – Business growth specialist: 3.5+ Bn; Founder and CEO of World Business Academy.
Leadership Team
Joe Massaquoi
Chief Financial Officer
CFO, Boom Supersonic; CFO, Initium Aerospace (Boeing/Safran JV); Director, Corporate Development, Boeing; M&A, Credit Suisse & Deutsche Bank; 25+ years financing growth-stage companies.
Marie Case
Vice Chairman
Chair, World Business Academy; Founder, Case Leadership; 30+ years – Change initiatives, M&A leadership, FTSE & Fortune 100; SVP, CSC Index; Led integrations for multiple BP acquisitions.
Robert Shelton
Vice President, Administration
President, ShangriLa Group; Former CEO, Private Access, Inc.; Founding Director, VP Licensing, Allcare Health Mgt Systems; Named inventor, 12 issued patents.
Peter Georgescu
Senior Strategic Advisor
Author, brand management specialist; Former CEO and Chairman Emeritus, Young & Rubicam, one of the world’s most effective marketing communications companies.
Ángel Gurría
Global Strategic Advisor
Secretary-General (2006-21) of the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); formerly served as Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mexico.
Dawa Tarchin Phillips
Managing Director, Germany
Founder, Empowerment Holdings; Co-Founder, IMTA; Co-Founder of UCSB’s Center for Human Potential; 14+ years – Conscious capital entrepreneur.
Jerry B. Brown, Ph.D.
Managing Director, Spain & Portugal
Founding Professor, Florida International University; coauthor, Freedom from Mid-East Oil; 40 years’ experience in renewable energy including advisory services to emerging enterprises.
Matt Knapp
Chief Engineer
Aeronautical engineer, Former Chief Engineer and Co-Founder, Zunum Aero hybrid electric aircraft company; Former Lead Designer of ATV Javelin light jet and chief aerodynamicist.
Erika Kelleher
Talent Acquisition
25+ years – Recruiting in the aviation and aerospace industries; 20+ years – Founder/Owner of boutique recruiting firm; former Head of Talent Acquisition, Boom Supersonic.
Other Key Company Personnel, Directors, and Advisory Board Members
Tom Soto
Strategic Director, Advisory Board Member
Long-time investor and pioneering voice in the impact and clean tech sectors, including having owned and managed four PE funds, and as founder of LA Clean Tech incubator.
Mike Pfau
Corporate Counsel
Founding partner, Reicker, Pfau, Pyle & McRoy law firm; outside general counsel for technology and manufacturing businesses, with extensive public and private offerings experience.
Mitch Ewan
Advisory Board Member, Senior Technical Advisor
Hydrogen Systems Program Manager, Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute; former Co-Chairman of National Hydrogen Association; former submarine commanding officer.
VADM Phil Wisecup (USN, Ret.)
Board of Directors, Advisory Board Members
Retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral; past-President, U.S. Naval War College; former Naval Inspector General; and Director of the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group.
Joe Powell, Ph.D.
Advisory Board Member
Former Chief Scientist for Shell Oil, who during his 36-year career led R&D programs; Chair of the U.S. Dept of Energy’s Hydrogen Technical Advisory Committee; former Director of American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Dr. Abas Goodarzi
Advisory Board Member
President/CEO, US Hybrid; a 30-year veteran of the electric & fuel cell industries, including as Technical Director of GM’s EV1 program and Senior Scientist at Hughes Aircraft.
Bob Fornaro
Advisory Board Member
Former CEO of Spirit Airlines; former Chairman, President and CEO of AirTran Holdings and its subsidiary, AirTran Airlines; formerly held key strategic and/or operating positions at Trans World Airlines, US Airways and Braniff.
Janice Lin
Advisory Board Member
Founder and CEO of the Green Hydrogen Coalition and professional services firm Strategen, Co-Founder of the California Energy Storage Alliance and Global Energy Storage Alliance.
Bob Colucci
Board of Directors
Formerly President of H2 Clipper and Harte Hanks Logistics; formerly CEO of PuRxCell Regenerative Medicine Company and the Institute of Regenerative Medicine; retired US Navy Captain.
Bob Boyd
Advisory Board Member
Internationally recognized expert in hydrogen delivery systems, safety codes and standards; former Chairman of Hydrogen Industry Panel on Codes and CGA & NFPA-2 Hydrogen Technology Committees.
Michael Harmon
Advisory Board Member
President at Harbor Capital, LLC; Former CFO at Galey & Lord; Extensive financial & mgt experience with Burlington Industries, Galey & Lord, Pillowtex Corporation, and others.
Jim Villanueva
Advisory Board Member
Managing Director, Global Partnerships Social Venture Fund; former Executive Director, Eleos Foundation Social Venture Fund; impact investor and entrepreneur in growth companies.
Massimo Masini
Advisory Board Member
Vice President Operations and General Manager, TECT Aerospace; former General Manager of B/E Aerospace; Head of Global Manufacturing Operations, CTC Global Composite; and adjunct MBA professor at CSULB.
Stephen S. Tuttle
Board of Directors
President and CEO of JOT Enterprises; Board of Advisors for AFO Research; 30+ years’ experience in the aviation and aerospace industries building world class implementation teams, including both early stage and hyper-growth entities.
Diane Cirincione, Ph.D.
Board of Directors
Founder and Executive Director of Attitudinal Healing International; President of the Jampolsky Outreach Foundation. Internationally recognized clinician, lecturer and author. Board Member of The Unstoppable Foundation.
Thomas J. Neff
Advisory Board Member
Chairman of Spencer Stuart, one of the world’s leading global executive search and leadership consulting firms, where he focuses on CEO and board of director consulting and searches.
Collaborators
Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE® Company, is a catalyst for human progress. It provides business and people with collaborative 3D virtual environments to imagine sustainable innovations. Through its world-leading solutions that transform the way products are designed, produced, and supported, and creating virtual twin experiences of the real world with its 3DEXPERIENCE platform and applications, its customers push the boundaries of innovation, learning and production. Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 290,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 140 countries. For more information, visit its website at www.3ds.com. H2 Clipper is a participant in the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab accelerator program. For details, see Press Release.
XD Innovation (XDI) is a Dassault Systèmes Values Solution Partner that assists its customers to innovate more efficiently by supplying the best-in-class technologies powered by the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE® PLATFORM. XDI provides software, contact engineering and consulting services to create product development technologies, equip 3D Design, engineering, 3D CAD, Modeling, Simulation, Data Management, Process Management, and Quality and Compliance. For more information about XDI, see its website at www.xdinnovation.com.
The World Business Academy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focusing on the role and responsibility of business in relation to solving critical environmental, energy security and social challenges. Formed in 1986, the Academy has a 30-year track record of leadership as a think tank and action incubator. The Academy’s direct focus on climate change, energy security and its advocacy for green hydrogen as the only planetary-wide clean energy source that could replace fossil fuels began with its seminal analysis of the most important threats to human survival and global renewable energy systems, culminating in its 2007 publication of Freedom from Mideast Oil. For more information about the Academy, see its website at www.worldbusiness.org.