Board member – managing director

Results-oriented professional with CEO and executive leadership experience in team & culture development, board/directorship roles, domestic and international marketing, and capital raising with venture capital, private equity and industrial firms, joint ventures and strategic alliances, mergers & acquisitions, and strategic planning experience in chemicals and energy industries. Brings strong ability to develop strategies, evaluate business opportunities, enter new markets and industries, and execute on strategies to create outsized returns.

Work Experience

• Board member, previously president & CEO, DryLet
• Board Member, NuMat Technologies
• Board Member, Graphene Technologies, Inc.
• Founder, President & CEO of SIMBOL materials
• Director, CenterPoint Energy (NYSE:CNP)
• Manager, El Paso Merchant Energy (NYSE:EP)

Career Accomplishments

• Tesla Motors made $325 million buy-out offer for Simbol
• Founded Simbol franchise, raised $80+ MM capital equity from domestic/international
• Financial/Strategic investors, $8.5 MM government; $240 MM valuation in 29 months
• Project financing structure for $110 MM capital raise at coal gas startup
• Acquired oil/gas field telemetry technology business at CNP, delivered 50%+ IRR
• FP&A, acquisitions, restructurings, and divestitures of $3.5 billion of 77 domestic / 11 international power plants and $1.1 billion in off-‐balance sheet 144A debt
• Negotiated IP licensing transactions and strategic alliances / ventures
• Testified in hearings at U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on strategic minerals

Education

• M.B.A., Rice University
• LL.M., Univ. Houston Law Center
• J.D., South Texas College of Law
• B.Com., University of Guelph

Admissions, certifications

• Attorney, State Bar of Texas
• C.I.R.A., Assoc. of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors
• C.T.P., Turnaround Management Association
• C.F.P.A., National Association of Plan Administrators
• FINRA Series 65, SIE, 7, 79, 24, 63
• CA Insurance no. 4245207

Family & Personal

Married, resides with wife, daughter, and son in San Diego. Lost complete left arm due to an oyster microbial infection.

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Marc is a financial and insurance advisor with a passion for education and trading. As an active market participant, he is constantly staying up to speed on geopolitical, financial, and economic events that move markets. Marc is also a standardized test and mathematics instructor and thus takes an educational approach with his clients. He believes that education is the best investment one can make.

Work Experience

Marc began working in global equities research before moving into the advisory space. He held roles as Client Service Associate and Junior Financial Advisor for RIAs in California, New York, and Texas before becoming a licensed financial advisor. He also has experience in legal and education finances.

Licenses

Series 65, CA Life/Health

Education

The Pennsylvania State University – University Park, PA

Personal

Marc is an avid outdoorsman who is constantly challenging himself to learn new, difficult things. He enjoys physical activity, learning to play music, and exploring the Western US. When he is not working, he is usually hiking in San Diego, with his dog, Diego.

Emeka is an accomplished financial executive with a strong record of advocating for investors across diverse private equity situations. He specializes in fiduciary oversight and monitoring the financial health of businesses across industries and asset types. His experience spans the full investment cycle—from concept, strategy, and team building to capital raising, operations, and governance.

He has led M&A transactions in power, oil & gas, and insurance, including raising capital for a power sector acquisition, with total deal value exceeding $2 billion.

Work Experience

• Citi Smith Barney, Wealth Manager – Portfolio Manager/ Investment Associate
• Salomon Smith Barney (SSB, a subsidiary of Citigroup)
• Merrill Lynch – Financial Consultant/Certified Financial Manager

Licenses

Certified Director – Institute of Directors
FINRA Series SIE, Series 6, 63, 65
Insurance

Education

• MBA, Loyola Marymount College
• BA, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
• GCSE, Dover College, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom
  Executive Education, MIT Sloan School of Business

Personal

Emeka’s education spans three continents. He is widowed, lives in Spring, TX with his two teenage daughters. He enjoys serving on the governing council of Dover College (Kent, England), as well as playing golf, mentoring, and volunteering.

Pat is an output-driven business leader with a 30+ year proven-ability to quickly step-in to lead organizations and teams through all phases of strategic thinking, new business development, ground-up operations process, and systems improvement transformation across multiple industry verticals including energy, infrastructure, logistics, and transportation.

His diverse experience and extensive expertise in customer relationship management, negotiations, strategy formulation, financial & operational evaluation, organizational design, and M&A often performing as an internal-consulting provider across all functions while also having developed and executed on large-scale growth initiatives driving over $2.0 billion of capital projects on time and on budget; $2.0+ billion in acquisitions & divestitures; $100+ million in sustainable cost takeouts; and improvement in EH & Scompliance and culture.

Work Experience

EVP, CFO & CAO, Cisco Equipment, LLC, Dallas, Texas
Business unit president, Eagle Rock Energy Partners, LLP, Houston, Texas
Chief commercial officer, Regency Energy Partners, LLP, Dallas, Texas
VP, Strategy & origination, CenterPoint Energy, Houston, Texas
Project leadership & acquisitions, El Paso Corp & Tenneco Inc., Houston, Texas & Singapore
Senior auditor, Deloitte & Touche, LLP, Houston, Texas and Washington, DC

Career Accomplishments

• Former CPA
• Mentor and Trainer
• Proven turnaround/special situations specialist

Education

MBA, Accounting emphasis, Tulane University
BBA, Hotel & Restaurant Administration, Washington State University

Family & Personal

Pat’s loves are snow skiing, fly fishing, cooking (and developing new recipes), hiking, music, volunteering, and spending time with family & friends. Pat lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Results-oriented executive with a background in both Marketing and Financial Services. Frenchie has a deep and broad career in marketing strategy & communications for global, national, and local brands/companies, such as: Coca-Cola, Proctor & Gamble, IKEA, USAA, and Texas Organ Sharing Alliance. Also, has extensive and award-winning experience in Hispanic Marketing. Did a career pivot to Financial Services as a licensed Life and Health professional, working with world-class organizations such as Globe Life and WFG/Transamerica, providing services to businesses, business owners, individuals, and their families.

Work Experience

• Financial Professional, Globe Life, WFG/TransAmerica, Cuellar & Assoc., and MVP Financial
• Integrated Marketing Director, SWEB Development
• EVP, Marketing Development, MarketVision
• Managing Partner, Diginary Holdings Group
• SVP, UPSHOT Marketing Agency
• Account Director, FCB/Impact Agency
• Marketing Promotions Manager, Miller Brewing Company

Work Experience

• Pioneered a new Bottler & Internal communications system for Coca-Cola USA’s hundreds of marketing programs, subsequently, created a new vertical business unit within my agency.
• For P&G, led the innovation and implementation of a breakthrough marketing campaign for the under-served Latina market segment. This cause marketing shopper program to provide breast cancer information and prevention services direct to the community, through retailers and the Komen Foundation. It was lauded by P&G’s CMO as Best-In-Class in North America and was an industry award winner.

Education

B.A. Journalism – Advertising & Public Relations, University of Texas at El Paso

Licenses, certifications

TX, CO, GA, WY Life and Health TX License No., 2343862

Family & Personal

Lives with her sister in San Antonio, Texas. She is an avid amateur golfer and on the Board of Directors – Communications for the LPGA Amateurs SA Chapter. When not working or golfing, Frenchie enjoys spending time with family.

A modern marketer who blends creativity with strategic acumen to drive impactful campaigns. She also has experience in the insurance industry. Marifer has a specialty in digital marketing, where she has demonstrated a knack for crafting compelling narratives that resonate with target audiences.

Work Experience

• Marketing Manager at Cuellar & Associates, LLC
• Director of Tradeshows at Cuellar & Associates LLC
• Social Media Manager at SAPS Entertainment
• Marketing Manager at BLS Construction Management

Career Accomplishments

She was key in creating the Cuellar & Associates brand, orchestrating the development of marketing initiatives from the ground up, cultivating a strong online social media presence, and leading a multi-disciplined team of 10 members, while delivering impactful results.

As a key member of SAPS Entertainment’s founding team, she spearheaded the establishment and management of the company’s social media presence. She created their content strategies and fostered relationships with influencers, artists, and television programs, contributing to SAPS’ emergence as a prominent player in the entertainment industry.

Education

B.S. Education with a certification in Bilingual Education (BIED), University of Texas at San Antonio

Family & Personal

Marifer lives in San Antonio. She is a runner who enjoys time with her Shih Tzu companion, Lucas. She also enjoys reading, and spending quality time with her friends and family. As an avid food enthusiast, she loves exploring new culinary experiences, and has a passion for travel. She has lived in four countries: USA, Mexico, Korea, and Italy.

George began his career by independently developing the first publicly available PDF-to-Excel and PDF-to-Word conversion software, Able2Extract, while pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. After graduating, he remained in Toronto for six years before relocating to Belgrade, Serbia, where he continued building and marketing Able2Extract from Europe.

From 2015 to 2018, George was part of the founding team at Embroker, Inc., a digital-first commercial insurance brokerage and Insurtech startup based in San Francisco, Chicago, and Belgrade. Embroker combined software automation with broker expertise to simplify business insurance.

Most recently, George has been focused on operating an insurance lead generation and marketing company, bringing his deep tech background and industry knowledge to the forefront of client acquisition strategies.

Work Experience:

• Embroker, Inc

Education

B.A.Sc. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto, Canada
Nicholas County High School, Summersville, West Virginia

Family & Personal

George currently resides in Belgrade, Serbia, but frequently travels to the U.S. In his
free time, he enjoys spending time with friends and staying social.