Bob George has over 40 years experience in general technical management, including product design and commercialization, and in providing creative solutions for product development, marketing and international licensing and joint ventures. Previously he was CEO of several companies including Commerce Direct Systems, Inc. Napa, CA, Imagineering International, Inc., Nashua, NH and Denning Mobile Robotics, Inc. Wilmington, MA.
Robert Godes
Founder, President and Chief Technology Officer
After 25 years experience as an innovator in identifying and developing various clean technology products, Robert Godes founded Brillouin Energy. He has closely studied and has a deep understanding of applied science, most engineering disciplines, quantum mechanics, general physics, high energy and condensed matter physics, electronics, control systems, programming, and electro chemistry. Mr. Godes holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio Northern University.
David Firshein
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Firshein has over 30 years of professional corporate finance experience in the private capital markets, together with 20 years experience in the senior management of venture start-up operations in senior financing and business development roles. During his career, he has directly completed over $900 Million of debt & equity transactions for small to large companies, including multiple environmentally oriented or clean-tech ventures.
David Niebauer
Vice President, Business Development & General Counsel
Mr. Niebauer is a practicing securities law attorney with 25 years senior legal and business development experience in venture capital finance, M&A and general corporate representation. David has extensive experience representing clean-technology ventures at all stages of growth including contract negotiations, corporate finance, intellectual property strategy, licensing and executive management.
David Correia
Mechanical Engineering Manager
Mr. Correia brings over 30 years experience developing new process equipment and mechanical designs that use chemical reactions to complete process steps for manufacturing. He is highly skilled in trouble-shooting chemical and mechanical systems, and bringing those solutions to market.
Technical and Business Advisory Board Members
Members of Brillouin Energy’s Advisory Board include:
Carl Page
Advisor 1
Carl Page is currently President of the Anthropocene Institute. He is a highly sought after entrepreneur, an advisor to technology, internet marketing, and emerging clean-tech companies, as well as a prominent investor in both hi-tech and clean-tech ventures. A highly skilled computer scientist and clean technologist, Mr. Page was a co-founder of E-Groups, which later became Yahoo Groups.
Dr. Francis Tanzella
Advisor 2
Dr. Tanzella has published over 75 papers in LENR and related subjects. He is a proponent of displaying the extension of existing plasma fusion theories to LENR and finding overlapping hypotheses when possible.
Dr. Michael McKubre
Advisor 3
For thirty years Dr. Michael McKubre has been one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of LENR at SRI International.
Cathy E. Cretsinger
Advisor 4
Cathy Cretsinger focuses her practice on patent portfolio development and strategic counseling in the Technology and Software industry area. Her research projects included software development, mechanical design, optical devices and systems, electronics, data acquisition systems and data analysis. She is a co-discoverer of an elementary particle called the top quark.
Adolfo O. Gutierrez
Advisor 5
Adolfo Gutierrez holds a PhD Engineering Physics Rensselaer Polytech (RPI), and serves as executive director and co-founder of Southern Pacific Research Institute for Advanced Technologies (SEPARI) in Chile. SEPARI conducts collaborative science and engineering research efforts in Chile and abroad.
Roger W. Fuller
Advisor 6
A renown design engineer of innovative solutions for rapidly growing markets, Roger Fuller is co-founder and the senior scientist at Maxim Integrated Products (MXIM) where he was instrumental in designing MAX 1780 smart and flash0memory battery chips.