WHO ARE WE?
CHARLOTTE THORNTON, CTO / Founder
In 2009, Charlotte Thornton spent one year as a pro se filer to the ASARCO (mining) bankruptcy, the largest environmental bankruptcy on record. This experience greatly influenced her direction of research into the extractive sectors. Determined to lead-out the shortest path to planet wide use of non-depletables, she has been seeking the wormhole to Life Without Oil™ like a birddog. The ASARCO Case gave her acute insight into environmental justice and where society stands on this test point vis-a-vis the extractive industries.
A favorite influential book for its verifiable truths is The Control of Oil by John Blair (1972). Blair exposes that which holds back, still to this day, non-depletables such as Hydrogen. In 2011 she was a START UP CHILE Round 1 Innovator sponsored by the Chilean government. She spent her time analyzing and pivoting how to launch The Atacama Desert as The Saudi of Solar. In 2002 she mapped an alignment as the appropriate next generation Pan American Highway. Its business model is a threat to freight sea lanes according to MAERSK executives. In 2004 she was an invited presenter to the Bi-Annual Americas Hemispheric Defense Summit in Quito, Ecuador where her 'LINC WAY' conceptual celestial highway design earned thirty-six out of thirty-eight ministerial votes that still informs the definition of post 911 hemispheric defense.
Charlotte has served as the Research Assistant and Marketing Director to the owner / founder of Lachel & Associates, a small firm of talented geotech engineers that served the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff as Chief Tunnel and Geotech Engineer. As Deputy Manager to the founder / Chairman of SVS R&D Systems before its Boeing buyout, she was mentored in the art and secret sauce of Skunkworks engineering first hand by one of the three original Chief Engineers to Clarence 'Kelly' Johnson. While at Stanford as a Mechanical Engineer Product Design student she "built" her mega-scale no emissions Pan American LINC WAY (Levitated International Causeway) in a NASA Ames world's largest dynamic simulator. She has been a Visiting Scholar to Stanford´s Civil & Environmental Engineering Global Projects Center (2010/11) and Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory (2012-16) tied to nano fabrication. Charlotte attended Stanford University, The Colorado School of Mines, and is twice degreed from The University of Texas. She has worked for Coors Ceramics, now ACX Technologies in high tech precision manufacturing of industrial ceramics. In a previous career she was a freelance art broker based in Paris & London. FOREX is a hobby and interest as is authoring a comprehensive book about the extractive industries, The Convenient Truth: Clean Copper. She hosts 'Clean Copper Radio & Hot Topics' on KZSU Stanford 90.1 fm weekly.
In 2009, Charlotte Thornton spent one year as a pro se filer to the ASARCO (mining) bankruptcy, the largest environmental bankruptcy on record. This experience greatly influenced her direction of research into the extractive sectors. Determined to lead-out the shortest path to planet wide use of non-depletables, she has been seeking the wormhole to Life Without Oil™ like a birddog. The ASARCO Case gave her acute insight into environmental justice and where society stands on this test point vis-a-vis the extractive industries.
A favorite influential book for its verifiable truths is The Control of Oil by John Blair (1972). Blair exposes that which holds back, still to this day, non-depletables such as Hydrogen. In 2011 she was a START UP CHILE Round 1 Innovator sponsored by the Chilean government. She spent her time analyzing and pivoting how to launch The Atacama Desert as The Saudi of Solar. In 2002 she mapped an alignment as the appropriate next generation Pan American Highway. Its business model is a threat to freight sea lanes according to MAERSK executives. In 2004 she was an invited presenter to the Bi-Annual Americas Hemispheric Defense Summit in Quito, Ecuador where her 'LINC WAY' conceptual celestial highway design earned thirty-six out of thirty-eight ministerial votes that still informs the definition of post 911 hemispheric defense.
Charlotte has served as the Research Assistant and Marketing Director to the owner / founder of Lachel & Associates, a small firm of talented geotech engineers that served the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff as Chief Tunnel and Geotech Engineer. As Deputy Manager to the founder / Chairman of SVS R&D Systems before its Boeing buyout, she was mentored in the art and secret sauce of Skunkworks engineering first hand by one of the three original Chief Engineers to Clarence 'Kelly' Johnson. While at Stanford as a Mechanical Engineer Product Design student she "built" her mega-scale no emissions Pan American LINC WAY (Levitated International Causeway) in a NASA Ames world's largest dynamic simulator. She has been a Visiting Scholar to Stanford´s Civil & Environmental Engineering Global Projects Center (2010/11) and Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory (2012-16) tied to nano fabrication. Charlotte attended Stanford University, The Colorado School of Mines, and is twice degreed from The University of Texas. She has worked for Coors Ceramics, now ACX Technologies in high tech precision manufacturing of industrial ceramics. In a previous career she was a freelance art broker based in Paris & London. FOREX is a hobby and interest as is authoring a comprehensive book about the extractive industries, The Convenient Truth: Clean Copper. She hosts 'Clean Copper Radio & Hot Topics' on KZSU Stanford 90.1 fm weekly.
ANDRES CORREA, Strategic Communications / Director
Andres Correa has 15 years of Brand Strategy, Marketing & Corporate Communications experience designing, leading and implementing comprehensive strategic inside-out solutions for some of the most relevant private and public companies, across a variety of industries. A common thread of his work has been in organizations undergoing change, helping them find their way into a new business strategy, a rebranding effort, or a more meaningful connection with customers. Organizational redesign & alignment is a specialty. Communication, culture change and innovation programs designed to articulate an organization´s core purpose and then rallying teams behind it so as to develop new capabilities is an art that Andres excels at by helping companies align their vision, strategy and communications and brand experience to create new value. He has coached vast auditoriums of work force through Design Think education.
Leveraging and communication cultural trends via research and community interface is a passion. Andres is a thought leader in questions of identity, discourse and cultural change across different social and institutional contexts. He has written and presented a number of essays in areas of: development, globalization & modernity, multiculturalism, and cultural theory. Andres holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication and Cultural Studies from The University of Massachusetts.
Andres Correa has 15 years of Brand Strategy, Marketing & Corporate Communications experience designing, leading and implementing comprehensive strategic inside-out solutions for some of the most relevant private and public companies, across a variety of industries. A common thread of his work has been in organizations undergoing change, helping them find their way into a new business strategy, a rebranding effort, or a more meaningful connection with customers. Organizational redesign & alignment is a specialty. Communication, culture change and innovation programs designed to articulate an organization´s core purpose and then rallying teams behind it so as to develop new capabilities is an art that Andres excels at by helping companies align their vision, strategy and communications and brand experience to create new value. He has coached vast auditoriums of work force through Design Think education.
Leveraging and communication cultural trends via research and community interface is a passion. Andres is a thought leader in questions of identity, discourse and cultural change across different social and institutional contexts. He has written and presented a number of essays in areas of: development, globalization & modernity, multiculturalism, and cultural theory. Andres holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication and Cultural Studies from The University of Massachusetts.
FB MEAD, Ph.D , Engineer / Advisor
Dr. Mead is academically trained as a mechanical and aerospace engineer in the thermal sciences, electric propulsion, and plasma dynamics. He has over 38 years’ experience with advanced rocket propulsion concepts, and is an internationally recognized expert. His professional experience has involved experimental and contract management programs, flight experiments and demonstrations, and advanced development efforts including the 10 years he directed the laser propulsion development program at the U.S. Air Force’s rocket propulsion laboratory. He has worked on chemical, electric, solar, and nuclear propulsion concepts
Dr. Mead has one patent, is currently a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the president and CEO of the American Institute of Beamed Energy Propulsion (AIBEP), hosted the sixth International Symposium on Beamed Energy Propulsion (ISBEP 6) held in September 2009, was awarded the ISBEP 2005 Outstanding Leadership Award, and the “Outstanding Civilian Career Service Award,” upon retirement.
Dr. Mead received a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan.
Dr. Mead is academically trained as a mechanical and aerospace engineer in the thermal sciences, electric propulsion, and plasma dynamics. He has over 38 years’ experience with advanced rocket propulsion concepts, and is an internationally recognized expert. His professional experience has involved experimental and contract management programs, flight experiments and demonstrations, and advanced development efforts including the 10 years he directed the laser propulsion development program at the U.S. Air Force’s rocket propulsion laboratory. He has worked on chemical, electric, solar, and nuclear propulsion concepts
Dr. Mead has one patent, is currently a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the president and CEO of the American Institute of Beamed Energy Propulsion (AIBEP), hosted the sixth International Symposium on Beamed Energy Propulsion (ISBEP 6) held in September 2009, was awarded the ISBEP 2005 Outstanding Leadership Award, and the “Outstanding Civilian Career Service Award,” upon retirement.
Dr. Mead received a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan.
RICHARD DASHER, Strategic Alliances / Advisor
Richard Dasher is Director at the US-Asia Technology Management Center at Stanford University (since 1996.) He holds consulting faculty appointments in the Department of Electrical Engineering (technology management) and the Department of Asian Languages (Japanese business). He served as Executive Director of Stanford's Center for Integrated Systems (now Systems-X) (1998-2015).
Dr. Dasher was the first non-Japanese person ever asked to join the senior governance of a Japanese national university and serves on the Management Steering Council of Tohoku University and as Special Advisor to the Tohoku University president. He was a member of the International Advisory Committee to the Japanese Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy in regard to the creation of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. He is regularly called on to consult for local and regional governments in Japan, the U.S. and Asia about innovation-based regional economic development and university-industry relations.
Dr. Dasher received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University and is co-author with Prof. Elizabeth Traugott of the book Regularity in Semantic Change (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He is fluent in Japanese and directed the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute training centers in Japan and Korea from 1986-90.
Richard Dasher is Director at the US-Asia Technology Management Center at Stanford University (since 1996.) He holds consulting faculty appointments in the Department of Electrical Engineering (technology management) and the Department of Asian Languages (Japanese business). He served as Executive Director of Stanford's Center for Integrated Systems (now Systems-X) (1998-2015).
Dr. Dasher was the first non-Japanese person ever asked to join the senior governance of a Japanese national university and serves on the Management Steering Council of Tohoku University and as Special Advisor to the Tohoku University president. He was a member of the International Advisory Committee to the Japanese Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy in regard to the creation of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. He is regularly called on to consult for local and regional governments in Japan, the U.S. and Asia about innovation-based regional economic development and university-industry relations.
Dr. Dasher received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University and is co-author with Prof. Elizabeth Traugott of the book Regularity in Semantic Change (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He is fluent in Japanese and directed the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute training centers in Japan and Korea from 1986-90.
BRUCE CAMBER, Advisor / Director
Bruce Camber is currently the force behind The Big Board - little universe Project. If you've not encountered it yet, do so now. It was born in a high school geometry class.
Bruce has been co-founder and producer of Small Business School, the television series. He spent 14+ years searching out and perfecting its weekly show that has now aired on PBS-TV stations throughout the US and on the Voice of America-TV all over the world. The selection process: the .1% of the top 10% of businesses based on their ethics, generosity within their local communities, and their willingness to share information to advance their industry. Businesses are nominated by business associations, local chambers of commerce, economic development folks, and business advocates.
In the first years of the production, PBS had a special feed to every college and university in the US. Today, there are well over 1000 key points with video, transcript and analysis from over 200 episodes of the show running globally. These case studies are published in many of the most important business textbooks by Prentice Hall, Thomson Learning, Cengage and Pearson. These videos and their key ideas became the foundation of The New York Times' small business section on their website.
Early in his career, Bruce was an invited one year resident theologian at the American Church in Paris while doing research at CERN in Switzerland. He has degrees in Physics and Theology from Wofford College and Boston University.
Bruce Camber is currently the force behind The Big Board - little universe Project. If you've not encountered it yet, do so now. It was born in a high school geometry class.
Bruce has been co-founder and producer of Small Business School, the television series. He spent 14+ years searching out and perfecting its weekly show that has now aired on PBS-TV stations throughout the US and on the Voice of America-TV all over the world. The selection process: the .1% of the top 10% of businesses based on their ethics, generosity within their local communities, and their willingness to share information to advance their industry. Businesses are nominated by business associations, local chambers of commerce, economic development folks, and business advocates.
In the first years of the production, PBS had a special feed to every college and university in the US. Today, there are well over 1000 key points with video, transcript and analysis from over 200 episodes of the show running globally. These case studies are published in many of the most important business textbooks by Prentice Hall, Thomson Learning, Cengage and Pearson. These videos and their key ideas became the foundation of The New York Times' small business section on their website.
Early in his career, Bruce was an invited one year resident theologian at the American Church in Paris while doing research at CERN in Switzerland. He has degrees in Physics and Theology from Wofford College and Boston University.
RICK ROBERTSON, Architect & Urban Designer / Director
Rick Robertson is in-house consulting architect and urban designer for the Clean Copper Supply Chain / IDEASOLE projects. He is a classicist swimming upstream against The 20th century International Style and Modernism. While we don't know what will define the 21st century, we are certain a classical revival is needed that sets forth clear principles and architectural artifacts that promise to inform humanity for success.
Rick is a gifted Beaux Arts Architect, Lecturer and Designer able to deliver highest of standard architecture that is often thought to be a lost capability among his peers. He has won awards not typically found on architects' CVs. He received the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of the Arts and Literature), France’s highest cultural award for adherence to Old World Classicism. Past recipients have included such creative legends as Picasso, Matisse and Manet. He is the recipient of the prestigious Star of Design and Los Angeles Architect of the Year awards for 2003. Previous recipients have been Frank Gehry, Charles Moore, Richard Meier and Frank Israel. Robertson's Las Lomas (north of Los Angeles) and Setauket Village (near New York City) are seen as visionary examples of what twenty-first century planning and architecture should be. Visit his work here.
Rick Robertson is in-house consulting architect and urban designer for the Clean Copper Supply Chain / IDEASOLE projects. He is a classicist swimming upstream against The 20th century International Style and Modernism. While we don't know what will define the 21st century, we are certain a classical revival is needed that sets forth clear principles and architectural artifacts that promise to inform humanity for success.
Rick is a gifted Beaux Arts Architect, Lecturer and Designer able to deliver highest of standard architecture that is often thought to be a lost capability among his peers. He has won awards not typically found on architects' CVs. He received the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of the Arts and Literature), France’s highest cultural award for adherence to Old World Classicism. Past recipients have included such creative legends as Picasso, Matisse and Manet. He is the recipient of the prestigious Star of Design and Los Angeles Architect of the Year awards for 2003. Previous recipients have been Frank Gehry, Charles Moore, Richard Meier and Frank Israel. Robertson's Las Lomas (north of Los Angeles) and Setauket Village (near New York City) are seen as visionary examples of what twenty-first century planning and architecture should be. Visit his work here.
PATRICIA MAYA, Comptroller-CPA / Co-Founder & Director
Patricia Maya is an experienced CPA with deep ties to copper mining. She is based in Calama, Chile, the world largest copper copper town and mining basecamp, servicing the largest copper mining district in the world. She has served several mining vendors on the ground in Calama: as a logistics coordinator for Global Maintenance Consulting Chile Ltda. and has extensive experience doing freelance translation and interpreting services for the Titanium Project Buildings in Santiago; as Bilingual Adminstrator for El Abra Mining Company; El Abra Mining Project at the jobsites; for Mitsubishi Corporation Chile and Codelco Chuquicamata, and Codelco's Sulphuric Acid Plant Project at Chuquicamata.
She spent three years in New York as the Director of the President's Office of The International Federation of Business and Professional Women. She managed BPW's flow of communications and international scheduling arrangements for its UN affiliated hub in New York City. She cherished the opportunity to meet and facilitate translations for exceptional people across its 96 country affiliates. BPW, with representatives to the UN, develops the professional, business and leadership potential of women on all levels through advocacy, mentoring, networking, skill building and economic empowerment programs and projects around the world.
Patricia Maya is an experienced CPA with deep ties to copper mining. She is based in Calama, Chile, the world largest copper copper town and mining basecamp, servicing the largest copper mining district in the world. She has served several mining vendors on the ground in Calama: as a logistics coordinator for Global Maintenance Consulting Chile Ltda. and has extensive experience doing freelance translation and interpreting services for the Titanium Project Buildings in Santiago; as Bilingual Adminstrator for El Abra Mining Company; El Abra Mining Project at the jobsites; for Mitsubishi Corporation Chile and Codelco Chuquicamata, and Codelco's Sulphuric Acid Plant Project at Chuquicamata.
She spent three years in New York as the Director of the President's Office of The International Federation of Business and Professional Women. She managed BPW's flow of communications and international scheduling arrangements for its UN affiliated hub in New York City. She cherished the opportunity to meet and facilitate translations for exceptional people across its 96 country affiliates. BPW, with representatives to the UN, develops the professional, business and leadership potential of women on all levels through advocacy, mentoring, networking, skill building and economic empowerment programs and projects around the world.
VITTORIO VALDES CORÓN, Naturalista / Director
Vittorio Valdes is a Renaissance Man among Chilean Mineros. He is a lifelong resident of Calama, Chile with many stories to tell for it. He is a land man and water expert and knows the Atacama like few others. He is a member of Desert Natural Resources and understands the nexus of land, water, mining, and indigenous customs. He is often relied on as an expert guide across the northern El Loa Province that hosts the world's two largest veins of copper. He has been a Municipal Delegate for the town of Sierra Gorda, neighboring mine base camp servicing the Sierra Gorda Mine owned by KMGH Mining of Poland and Sumitomo of Japan.
Vittorio has been outspoken about the insertion of a unified aqueduct system for El Loa Province via resurrection of an historical lost road, once the main road from Cobija on the coast to Calama high in the Andres. Cobija, the town, was lost to a c. 1900 tsunami, once a major port. Vittorio has well research and designed a project, ¨Cobija Road¨and has lobbied extensively for this much needed project and creative design solution to be adopted as a solution to multiple issues of inequity and environmental risk to agriculture and cultural tourism wrought by the mining industry. And innovator, Vittorio is still hopeful his research and work can be implemented as a tourist only road for hikers and bikers so as to bring more tourism into Calama that was the world´s largest oasis city in a desert -- prior to 20th century mining. His goal is to see Calama´s tourism and agriculture be restored back to parity with mining that unwittingly continues to play havoc with ecosystems and indigenous Indian cultures, including Pre-Colombian archeology, geoglyphs and cemetaries.
Vittorio has pursued Interdisciplinary Studies in Psychology, Vocalization, Set Design, Corporal Expression and Songwriting. He is author of "Thousand Poems in a Song" (2005) poetry; "The Second Abyss" (2006) work of civic and social character; "Kara-Hama" (2006) work of descriptiveness of the city of Calama; "Lickantacsi" (2007) work of descriptiveness of San Pedro de Atacama; "CHUQUI - Kamac" (2007) descriptive work of Chuquicamata mine; "Legend of Clan Valdés" (2012) a novel; "Mental Strength" (2014). He is of Italian decent and sings his own songs while also performing as a restaurateur.
Vittorio Valdes is a Renaissance Man among Chilean Mineros. He is a lifelong resident of Calama, Chile with many stories to tell for it. He is a land man and water expert and knows the Atacama like few others. He is a member of Desert Natural Resources and understands the nexus of land, water, mining, and indigenous customs. He is often relied on as an expert guide across the northern El Loa Province that hosts the world's two largest veins of copper. He has been a Municipal Delegate for the town of Sierra Gorda, neighboring mine base camp servicing the Sierra Gorda Mine owned by KMGH Mining of Poland and Sumitomo of Japan.
Vittorio has been outspoken about the insertion of a unified aqueduct system for El Loa Province via resurrection of an historical lost road, once the main road from Cobija on the coast to Calama high in the Andres. Cobija, the town, was lost to a c. 1900 tsunami, once a major port. Vittorio has well research and designed a project, ¨Cobija Road¨and has lobbied extensively for this much needed project and creative design solution to be adopted as a solution to multiple issues of inequity and environmental risk to agriculture and cultural tourism wrought by the mining industry. And innovator, Vittorio is still hopeful his research and work can be implemented as a tourist only road for hikers and bikers so as to bring more tourism into Calama that was the world´s largest oasis city in a desert -- prior to 20th century mining. His goal is to see Calama´s tourism and agriculture be restored back to parity with mining that unwittingly continues to play havoc with ecosystems and indigenous Indian cultures, including Pre-Colombian archeology, geoglyphs and cemetaries.
Vittorio has pursued Interdisciplinary Studies in Psychology, Vocalization, Set Design, Corporal Expression and Songwriting. He is author of "Thousand Poems in a Song" (2005) poetry; "The Second Abyss" (2006) work of civic and social character; "Kara-Hama" (2006) work of descriptiveness of the city of Calama; "Lickantacsi" (2007) work of descriptiveness of San Pedro de Atacama; "CHUQUI - Kamac" (2007) descriptive work of Chuquicamata mine; "Legend of Clan Valdés" (2012) a novel; "Mental Strength" (2014). He is of Italian decent and sings his own songs while also performing as a restaurateur.
HECTOR RIOS, Global Communications / Director
Hector exudes curiosity and always must find answers. A highly credentialed Journalist titled by Colegio Periodistas de Chile, Hector´s investigative team received the Inter-American Press Association´s Mergenthaler Award for their campaign against Arsenic in Atacama Water (1968-69). Hector has beeChief of Information, TV Channel of University of Chile; Executive Director University of Chile Norte TV Network; Editor of La Estrella del Loa, Calama, and Press Manager of Weekly Oasis, Chuquicamata. Hector worked for El Mercurio de Antofagasta during the Pinochet era. He is highly skilled at navigating reportage of highly political issues. He aspires to oversee a new generation of digital and multi-media reporting covering the many competing stakeholders and issues that will determine the future and fate of The Atacama Desert & Altiplano.
Hector exudes curiosity and always must find answers. A highly credentialed Journalist titled by Colegio Periodistas de Chile, Hector´s investigative team received the Inter-American Press Association´s Mergenthaler Award for their campaign against Arsenic in Atacama Water (1968-69). Hector has beeChief of Information, TV Channel of University of Chile; Executive Director University of Chile Norte TV Network; Editor of La Estrella del Loa, Calama, and Press Manager of Weekly Oasis, Chuquicamata. Hector worked for El Mercurio de Antofagasta during the Pinochet era. He is highly skilled at navigating reportage of highly political issues. He aspires to oversee a new generation of digital and multi-media reporting covering the many competing stakeholders and issues that will determine the future and fate of The Atacama Desert & Altiplano.
CAMERON TURNER, Statistician / Advisor
Cameron brings an extensive background in computer science, venture investing, digital finance, software management, and industrial artificial intelligence to the advisor role. His recent projects include mobile financial retention research in subsaharan Africa for the The Gates Foundation and the financial fraud prediction system for Starbucks.
He served as founder and CEO of ClickStream Technologies, which was acquired by Microsoft, where he went on to lead the company’s Telemetry practice, managing essentially all inbound data systems, globally. Since then he has co-founded The Data Guid, a boutique data science co-development practice in Palo Alto, helping Fortune 500 companies build and deploy advanced AI systems from design to production, with a focus on social impact.
Cameron serves as a Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Stanford’s StartX accelerator, Venture Studio Advisor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Venture Partner for Spike Ventures (Stanford Angels) and co-manages the Oxford Angel Fund. He serves on the External Technology Advisory Board for Accenture. Other board positions include Evocalize.com and Worldreader.org. Cam holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College, an M.B.A. from Oxford University and M.S. in Statistics from Stanford University.
Cameron brings an extensive background in computer science, venture investing, digital finance, software management, and industrial artificial intelligence to the advisor role. His recent projects include mobile financial retention research in subsaharan Africa for the The Gates Foundation and the financial fraud prediction system for Starbucks.
He served as founder and CEO of ClickStream Technologies, which was acquired by Microsoft, where he went on to lead the company’s Telemetry practice, managing essentially all inbound data systems, globally. Since then he has co-founded The Data Guid, a boutique data science co-development practice in Palo Alto, helping Fortune 500 companies build and deploy advanced AI systems from design to production, with a focus on social impact.
Cameron serves as a Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Stanford’s StartX accelerator, Venture Studio Advisor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Venture Partner for Spike Ventures (Stanford Angels) and co-manages the Oxford Angel Fund. He serves on the External Technology Advisory Board for Accenture. Other board positions include Evocalize.com and Worldreader.org. Cam holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College, an M.B.A. from Oxford University and M.S. in Statistics from Stanford University.
KENDALL HAVEN, Master Storyteller / Advisor
The only West Point graduate to turn professional storyteller, Kendall Haven holds a graduate degree in Oceanography. Now a performing master storyteller, Kendall has, for over 40 years, led the research effort for the National Storytelling Association and International Storytelling Center into effective story structure and into the process of story-based influence and persuasion.
Kendall is charged to help Alliance members create and tell compelling Clean Copper Stories that traverse our global supply chain.
An internationally recognized Subject Matter Expert on the cognitive and neuro-science of story, Kendall helped create the study of the Neuroscience of Story and created the first detailed, tested model of dynamic story architecture that accounts for the neurology of how narrative material is processed, understood, remembered, and recalled in a receiver’s mind. His two seminal works (STORY PROOF and STORY SMART) have revolutionized our understanding of the neural and science aspects of effective story structure and present his major advances story and narrative theory: the Neural Story Net, the Make Sense Mandate, the Eight Essential Elements, Motive Matching, and the first explicit Story Influence Model.
Kendall was the only working storyteller recruited as part of the recent U.S. Department of Defense DARPA research program to explore the cognitive neurology of how stories exert influence. He serves as a story consultant to departments in various U.S. governmental science agencies (Navy, EPA, NASA, NOAA, and NPS) and to the Singapore Armed Forces as well as with numerous corporations, nonprofits, and educational organizations and was selected as a featured presenter at the 2013 and 2014 Aspen Ideas Fest. He has published 34 books of and on stories and storytelling and has won 20 major awards for his writing and performance storytelling.
The only West Point graduate to turn professional storyteller, Kendall Haven holds a graduate degree in Oceanography. Now a performing master storyteller, Kendall has, for over 40 years, led the research effort for the National Storytelling Association and International Storytelling Center into effective story structure and into the process of story-based influence and persuasion.
Kendall is charged to help Alliance members create and tell compelling Clean Copper Stories that traverse our global supply chain.
An internationally recognized Subject Matter Expert on the cognitive and neuro-science of story, Kendall helped create the study of the Neuroscience of Story and created the first detailed, tested model of dynamic story architecture that accounts for the neurology of how narrative material is processed, understood, remembered, and recalled in a receiver’s mind. His two seminal works (STORY PROOF and STORY SMART) have revolutionized our understanding of the neural and science aspects of effective story structure and present his major advances story and narrative theory: the Neural Story Net, the Make Sense Mandate, the Eight Essential Elements, Motive Matching, and the first explicit Story Influence Model.
Kendall was the only working storyteller recruited as part of the recent U.S. Department of Defense DARPA research program to explore the cognitive neurology of how stories exert influence. He serves as a story consultant to departments in various U.S. governmental science agencies (Navy, EPA, NASA, NOAA, and NPS) and to the Singapore Armed Forces as well as with numerous corporations, nonprofits, and educational organizations and was selected as a featured presenter at the 2013 and 2014 Aspen Ideas Fest. He has published 34 books of and on stories and storytelling and has won 20 major awards for his writing and performance storytelling.
HEIDI REYNOLDS, Metallurgist & Materials Scientist / Consultant
Heidi Reynolds has extensive industry experience with practical work in semiconductor and optoelectronic packaging, reliability, failure analysis, materials characterization and materials processing. She has spent her career resolving a broad range of materials issues, working with multiple disciplines to solve technical problems -- many of them environmental related.
Heidi has worked with key Optical Suppliers to determine RoHS2** Exemption Removal Plans and identify technical barriers to its removal with extensive technical written and oral presentation recommendations and requirements for transitions to RoHS* compliant products. She developed specifications and qualification tests for reliability and quality of lead(Pb)-free alternatives for electronic components and PCB assemblies. She has also worked with industry-wide standards organizations (JEDEC) to develop and publish specifications related to lead(Pb)-free termination finishes for electronic components. Heidi Served as Chairman of the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI) Accelerated Tin Whisker Test Project conducting weekly meetings and managing experiments involving participants from multiple international companies.
Heidi was educated at the Colorado School of Mines (B.S.) and Berkeley (M.S./Ph.D) and began her career in metallurgy and material science at E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Center for Advanced Materials, Sandia National Laboratory in their Physical Metallurgy Division, Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) in their Technology Planning Group and Rockwell International as a Research and Engineering Systems Planner at Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plan in Golden, CO. She has published over twenty reviewed papers and is a proven innovator per three U.S. patents as well as having received numerous honors during her career.
**RoHS2 = Restriction of Hazardous Substances/European Union Directive, effective July 2011
Heidi Reynolds has extensive industry experience with practical work in semiconductor and optoelectronic packaging, reliability, failure analysis, materials characterization and materials processing. She has spent her career resolving a broad range of materials issues, working with multiple disciplines to solve technical problems -- many of them environmental related.
Heidi has worked with key Optical Suppliers to determine RoHS2** Exemption Removal Plans and identify technical barriers to its removal with extensive technical written and oral presentation recommendations and requirements for transitions to RoHS* compliant products. She developed specifications and qualification tests for reliability and quality of lead(Pb)-free alternatives for electronic components and PCB assemblies. She has also worked with industry-wide standards organizations (JEDEC) to develop and publish specifications related to lead(Pb)-free termination finishes for electronic components. Heidi Served as Chairman of the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI) Accelerated Tin Whisker Test Project conducting weekly meetings and managing experiments involving participants from multiple international companies.
Heidi was educated at the Colorado School of Mines (B.S.) and Berkeley (M.S./Ph.D) and began her career in metallurgy and material science at E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Center for Advanced Materials, Sandia National Laboratory in their Physical Metallurgy Division, Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) in their Technology Planning Group and Rockwell International as a Research and Engineering Systems Planner at Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plan in Golden, CO. She has published over twenty reviewed papers and is a proven innovator per three U.S. patents as well as having received numerous honors during her career.
**RoHS2 = Restriction of Hazardous Substances/European Union Directive, effective July 2011
BERNARD GULY, Communications & Global Media Relations / Advisor
Bernie Guly is recognised by staff and clients for his integrity, diplomacy and dedication to client service, and vast knowledge and experience of new business strategies. He has led Start-up and business restructuring/turnarounds, operating at the Board level, while retaining and growing client and stakeholder relationships in foreign lands. His management and leadership experience includes formation of one of the first agencies focusing on developing corporate reputation, CSR, brand and digital communication strategies for FTSE & international companies including the UK Ministry of Defence, Astra Zeneca, BlackBerry, BP, GSK, PMI, Rio Tinto & Rolls- Royce.
Bernie is currently Managing Director of ABI Europe running the Group's London-based agency office with responsibility for the EMEA region, while working with Group offices in New York, Singapore and Shanghai to provide international marketing, brand & PR communications. Bernie is an innovator inside a field defined by innovators needing leading edge messaging and communications for their brands, products, and corporate reporting.
Bernie has extensive experience in doing business in the Middle East. For three years he was based in Manama, Bahrain serving as Deputy CEO then CEO at Miracle Communications Group in Bahrain. In addition to maintaining services and normalacy during the Arab Spring, he was driving growth for one of the GCC's leading brand, corporate and marketing communications Groups.
Bernie speaks French and Gaelic and is a British Citizen with a degree in Business Administration from The University of London.
Photo Credit: Getty Images Bernard Guly delivers his speech at the Clarion Awards 2006 in London. The Clarion Awards, set up in 2003 by The International Visual Communication Association (IVCA), recognises the best practice in communicating the importance of CSR, sustainable development, social inclusion and ethical debate to all media.
Bernie Guly is recognised by staff and clients for his integrity, diplomacy and dedication to client service, and vast knowledge and experience of new business strategies. He has led Start-up and business restructuring/turnarounds, operating at the Board level, while retaining and growing client and stakeholder relationships in foreign lands. His management and leadership experience includes formation of one of the first agencies focusing on developing corporate reputation, CSR, brand and digital communication strategies for FTSE & international companies including the UK Ministry of Defence, Astra Zeneca, BlackBerry, BP, GSK, PMI, Rio Tinto & Rolls- Royce.
Bernie is currently Managing Director of ABI Europe running the Group's London-based agency office with responsibility for the EMEA region, while working with Group offices in New York, Singapore and Shanghai to provide international marketing, brand & PR communications. Bernie is an innovator inside a field defined by innovators needing leading edge messaging and communications for their brands, products, and corporate reporting.
Bernie has extensive experience in doing business in the Middle East. For three years he was based in Manama, Bahrain serving as Deputy CEO then CEO at Miracle Communications Group in Bahrain. In addition to maintaining services and normalacy during the Arab Spring, he was driving growth for one of the GCC's leading brand, corporate and marketing communications Groups.
Bernie speaks French and Gaelic and is a British Citizen with a degree in Business Administration from The University of London.
Photo Credit: Getty Images Bernard Guly delivers his speech at the Clarion Awards 2006 in London. The Clarion Awards, set up in 2003 by The International Visual Communication Association (IVCA), recognises the best practice in communicating the importance of CSR, sustainable development, social inclusion and ethical debate to all media.
LUIS MEJIA, Intellectual Property / Advisor
Luis Mejia is Executive Director of Climate Donor, Inc. and CEO of Voter Capital, Inc. He was previously Associate Director in the Office of Technology Licensing at Stanford University, the Founder of the Stanford Innovation iFarm Team Program and a Fellow of the Disruptor Foundation. At Stanford, he led a team of Licensing Associates with a technology portfolio of over 1,600 technologies ranging from engineering to medicine, representing 75% of Stanford’s license revenue.
In his 29 years at Stanford, he managed the University’s two biggest patents, three major patent litigations (including two cases argued before the US Supreme Court), negotiated over 250 licenses, and evaluated over 700 inventions, including the PageRank Algorithm which was the instrumental IP that led to the creation of Google. Mr. Mejia has co-founded four Silicon Valley start-ups and been an advisor to several startups, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Prior to joining Stanford he worked on solar energy systems and energy management at Honeywell and Pacific Gas & Electric. He is a recipient of an award for Excellence in Technology Transfer from the Department of Energy, Federal Laboratory Consortium.
Luis Mejia is Executive Director of Climate Donor, Inc. and CEO of Voter Capital, Inc. He was previously Associate Director in the Office of Technology Licensing at Stanford University, the Founder of the Stanford Innovation iFarm Team Program and a Fellow of the Disruptor Foundation. At Stanford, he led a team of Licensing Associates with a technology portfolio of over 1,600 technologies ranging from engineering to medicine, representing 75% of Stanford’s license revenue.
In his 29 years at Stanford, he managed the University’s two biggest patents, three major patent litigations (including two cases argued before the US Supreme Court), negotiated over 250 licenses, and evaluated over 700 inventions, including the PageRank Algorithm which was the instrumental IP that led to the creation of Google. Mr. Mejia has co-founded four Silicon Valley start-ups and been an advisor to several startups, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Prior to joining Stanford he worked on solar energy systems and energy management at Honeywell and Pacific Gas & Electric. He is a recipient of an award for Excellence in Technology Transfer from the Department of Energy, Federal Laboratory Consortium.
Rao Kan, Software Architecture, Development, & Project Management / Engineer
Rao Kan is an accomplished programmer with broad experience working in the field of energy.
He is degreed in Computer Science from the University of British Colombia in Vancouver.
Rao Kan is an accomplished programmer with broad experience working in the field of energy.
He is degreed in Computer Science from the University of British Colombia in Vancouver.
