Rinaldo Brutoco
FOUNDER, PRESIDENT & 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.
Executive Leadership & Management
Joe Massaquoi
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICIER
CFO, Boom Supersonic; CFO, Initium Aerospace (Boeing/Safran JV); Director, Corporate Development, Boeing; M&A, Credit Suisse & Deutsche Bank; 25+ years financing growth-stage, energy and aerospace companies.
Marie Case
CPO & EVP ADMIN
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
VP, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
President, ShangriLa Group; Former CEO, Private Access, Inc.; Founding Director, VP Licensing, Allcare Health Mgt Systems; Named inventor, 14 issued patents.
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. MIT Engineering.
Mitch Ewan
SENIOR TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Hydrogen Systems Program Manager, Hawaii Natural Energy Institute; former Co-Chairman of National Hydrogen Association; former submarine commanding officer.
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.
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.
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.
Board of Directors
Peter Georgescu
CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Author, brand management specialist; Former CEO and Chairman Emeritus, Young & Rubicam, one of the world’s most effective marketing communications companies.
Bob Fornaro
DIRECTOR
Former CEO of Spirit Airlines; former Chairman & CEO of AirTran Airlines; prior executive roles at Southwest Airlines, Trans World Airlines, US Airways and Braniff.
Ángel Gurría
DIRECTOR, GLOBAL STRATEGIC ADVISOR
President, Paris Peace Forum; Secretary-General (2006-21) of the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); formerly Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mexico.
John Lancastar
DIRECTOR
Managing Partner of Oyster Creek; former Partner at Riverstone Holdings. Boards of Oasis Petroleum & Crestwood Equity Partners, Dean’s Advisory Board McCombs School of Business at UT.
Martin Whittaker
DIRECTOR
Founding CEO of JUST Capital; Member of Forbes Finance Council; previous named to NACD Directorship 100; 25+ years’ at the intersection of global business, finance, philanthropy & ESG.
VADM Phil Wisecup (USN, Ret.)
DIRECTOR, DASSAULT LIASON
Retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral; past-President of U.S. Naval War College; former Naval Inspector General; and Director of the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group.
Rinaldo Brutoco
DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT & 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.
Marie Case
VICE CHAIRMAN, CPO & EVP
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.
Selected Senior Advisors
Dr. Abas Goodarzi
AVIATION & FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY
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.
Janice Lin
ENERGY STORAGE
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.
Massimo Masini
AEROSPACE
Vice President Operations and General Manager, TECT Aerospace; former General Manager of B/E Aerospace (now Collins Aerospace); Head of Global Manufacturing Operations, CTC Global Composite; and adjunct MBA professor at CSULB.
Thomas J. Neff
TALENT & EXECUTIVE SEARCH
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.
Satish Korde
GLOBAL ADVISOR
Founder and CEO at GTB marketing agency; former Global Client Director at WPP; Clients include Ford, Mazda, Barilla, Gillette, AT&T, United Airlines, Citibank and Colgate.
Tom Soto
STRATEGY
Long-time investor and pioneering voice in the impact and clean tech sectors, including having owned and managed four PE funds, founder of LA Clean Tech Incubator, and Managing Directory at TCW.
Jim Villanueva
SOCIAL IMPACT & INVESTMENTS
Managing Director, Global Partnerships Social Venture Fund; former Executive Director, Eleos Foundation Social Venture Fund; impact investor and entrepreneur in growth companies.
Joe Powell, Ph.D.
HYDROGEN RESEARCH
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.
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.
Management Team
Rinaldo Brutoco
Director, President & 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.
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, energy and aerospace companies.
Marie Case
Vice Chair & CPO/ EVP Admin
Founder, Case Leadership; 30+ years – Change initiatives, M&A leadership, FTSE & Fortune 100; SVP, CSC Index; Led integrations for multiple BP acquisitions; Chair, World Business Academy.
Robert Shelton
Vice President, Intellectual Property & Partnerships
President, ShangriLa Group; Former CEO, Private Access, Inc.; Founding Director, VP Licensing, Allcare Health Mgt Systems; Named inventor, 14 issued patents.
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.
Mitch Ewan
Director of Hydrogen Infrastructure Solutions
Hydrogen Systems Program Manager, Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute; former Co-Chairman of National Hydrogen Association; former submarine commanding officer.
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.
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.
Mike Pfau
Chief Counsel
Managing Partner of Oyster Creek; former Partner at Riverstone Holdings. Investment banker; expert in the energy sector. Sits on the Board’s of Oasis Petroleum, Crestwood Equity Partners, & on the Dean’s Advisory Board McCombs School of Business at UT.
Board of Directors
Peter Georgescu
Chairman
Author, brand management specialist; Former CEO and Chairman Emeritus, Young & Rubicam, one of the world’s most effective marketing communications companies.
Marie Case
Vice Chair & CPO/ EVP Admin
Founder, Case Leadership; 30+ years – Change initiatives, M&A leadership, FTSE & Fortune 100; SVP, CSC Index; Led integrations for multiple BP acquisitions; Chair, World Business Academy.
Rinaldo Brutoco
Director, President & 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.
Ángel Gurría
Director, Global Strategic Advisor
President, Paris Peace Forum; 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.
Bob Fornaro
Director
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.
John Lancastar
Director
Managing Partner of Oyster Creek; former Partner at Riverstone Holdings. Investment banker; expert in the energy sector. Sits on the Board’s of Oasis Petroleum, Crestwood Equity Partners, & on the Dean’s Advisory Board McCombs School of Business at UT.
Martin Whittaker
Director
Founding CEO, JUST Capital; Sr. advisor to Edelman; A leader in corporate sustainability & ESG investing; 25+ years’ at the intersection of global business, finance, philanthropy & social/environmental impact; Sits on the G7 Impact Taskforce’s Working Group on Impact Transparency and Integrity.
VADM Phil Wisecup (USN, Ret.)
Director, Dassault Liason
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.
Advisory Council
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.
Bob Colucci
Advisory Board Member
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.
Diane Cirincione, Ph.D.
Advisory Board Member
Organizational Behaviorist, Clinical Psychologist, Private Entrepreneur, former management positions in aviation transportation, internationally recognized clinician, lecturer, and author who has worked in 61 countries over 40 years.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tom Soto
Chief Strategist
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.
Stephen S. Tuttle
Advisory Board Member
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.
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.
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.