Judah Pinchas Benay – Director, eAnalytics, Ltd.

Mr. Benay is a mathematician who has employed this capacity in business. Further, Mr. Benay engages as an anonymous, but important charitable actor with a philanthropic background that has involved the giving of his time, expertise, and resources. Mr. Benay currently dedicates the principal portion of his time to identifying and developing technologies related to shelter, sustenance, and the provision of power and water.

 

VJ Andrew Angelo - Director, eAnalytics, Ltd.

Mr. Angelo is a senior banking expert with over thirty-five years’ experience in the financial sector. He has worked in New York, Europe, the UK and Asia in a variety of financial product development, technology, investor relations and product structuring roles. Mr. Angelo has also spent time as an FCA Compliance Officer. A senior leader with experience at several multinational investment companies such as the London Derivatives Exchange, Mr. Angelo currently serves as corporate  advisor to a number of firms in the UK, US, and Asia.

 

James Garey Ellison - Director, eAnalytics, Ltd.

Mr. Ellison holds several accounting-related degrees and has previously specialized in accounts reconciliation and supervision for various United Kingdom corporate entities. Mr. Ellison is mechanically inclined and has enjoyed championship wins in rallying and karting motor sport events.

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The Executive Board

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Dr. Stuart Hamon, LLD, ACIB, Non-Voting Executive Director

Stuart is an accomplished lawyer in both the United Kingdom and United States. Further, he is a member of the American Bar Association and holds a Ph.D. in International Law. Still further, he is a qualified private banker with over 30 years of experience in financial and legal banking consultation. Concurrently, Stuart has worked closely with sovereigns, private, corporate and institutional clients as an experienced advisor. Stuart has extensive background in international capital structures, investment funds, structured finance, private equity, trust and foundation establishment, IP registration, global property markets and cross border transactions. Stuart has had and continues to focus upon humanitarian projects that address financially sustainable, environmentally responsible objectives.

 

Stuart has currently serves as a regulated trustee and international fiduciary.

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Dr. Pat Choate, Non-Voting Executive Director

Pat Choate is an economist.  He has served in executive positions in government and industry.  He is a national best-selling author of nine books about development economics, several of which have been translated into Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

 

Choate is a former Director of Development Planning for the State Government of Oklahoma, Commissioner of Economic Development for the State of Tennessee, Administrator of the US Department of Commerce’s Appalachian and Southern U.S. Economic Development Offices, and Director of the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s Office of Economic Research.  He has served on three Presidential Commissions on development, testified as an expert witness before Congress more than 50 times, was named the “Father of the U.S. Competitiveness” movement by the New York Times for popularizing the concept with his book The High-Flex Society (Knopf, 1986) and “Mr. Infrastructure” by the Washington Post for branding and simplifying the term with his book America in Ruins:  The Decaying Infrastructure (Duke University Press, 1981). 

 

Following the end of his nine-year appointment in the U.S. Department of Commerce (1981), Choate was employed by TRW Inc. as Vice President for Public Policy.  For a decade, he devised corporate policy on various public policy issues, led the formation of a 200-Member Congressional Caucus on Competitiveness, and created a support organization (Congressional Economic Leadership Institute) that he chaired or co-chaired for 16 years.

 

In 1990, he founded the Manufacturing Policy Project (MPP) – a private, economic development research organization located in Washington DC – and subsequently, he provided strategic advise to private and public organizations including the Ford Motor Company, the General Motors Corporation, Daimler-Chrysler Corporation, Milliken and Co., Crafted with Pride in USA, The Biotronics Corporation, The Ford Foundation, Intellectual Ventures Inc., Corning Inc., The United Steel Workers, The United Automotive Workers, The U.S.-China Security Review Commission, The Council on Foreign Relations, The U.S. Treasury’s Internal Revenue Service (International Division), The U.S. Small Business Administration, The TPL Group, PCS Wireless and PhRMA. 

 

He was Vice Chair of the U.S. Defense Department’s Science Board Task Force on Foreign Ownership and Control of U.S. Industry, a Member of the U.S. Labor Department’s Commission on the American Work Force and the National Research Council’s Committee on Vocational Education in Depressed Areas. 

 

Choate was a panelist on the U.S. Senate’s Advisory Commission on Infrastructure and the U.S House of Representatives’ Trade and Job Caucuses.  He authored two studies for the U.S.-China Security Commission – one on China’s manufacturing expansion and the U.S. Industrial base and the other on Advanced Technology Trade with China.  He has written extensively with articles published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribute, the Harvard Business Review and various policy institute publications.

 

Since 2005, Choate has focused his attention on innovation, intellectual property rights and development.  He has testified before Congress and briefed various Committees on patent rights and development.  His books on the topic include Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization (Knopf 2005), Dangerous Business:  The Risks of Globalization (Knopf, 2008), and Saving Capitalism (Vintage 2009).  Choate advises and invests with inventors and start-up companies that are developing advance technologies for energy and food production, thermal efficient buildings and water conservation.

 

Choate assisted Ross Perot create the Reform Party political movement in the United States, was economic advisor for Perot’s 1992 Presidential candidacy, and Perot’s Vice-Presidential running mate in 1996.Pat Choate holds a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of Texas, and an M.A. and PhD in Economics from the University of Oklahoma.  He and his wife reside in Tucson, Arizona.

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Dr. Brent Blackwelder, Non-Voting Executive Director

Dr. Brent Blackwelder is a global environmental advocate.  Vanity Fair Magazine listed Blackwelder in 2005 as one of the 22 Best Stewards of the Planet.  Between 1994 and 2009, he was President of Friends of the Earth (U.S.), which is a founding member of Friends of the Earth International, the world largest grassroots environmental network.  He led Friends of the Earth in projects and campaigns that generally fit into four major categories – (1) climate and energy projects, all related to reducing pollution and carbon emissions, (2) projects related to agriculture and food processing technologies, (3) projects focused on preserving rivers, forests and oceans, and (4) projects to make U.S. and international economic policies more environmentally friendly and supportive of human rights.  Brent Blackwelder has testified before the U.S. Congress as an expert witness more than 100 times.  He is the author of numerous books, reports and articles. Brent Blackwelder holds a AB degree in mathematics from Duke University, an MA in mathematics from Yale University and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Maryland.  

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Judge (ret.) Paul Michel, Non-Voting Executive Director

Judge Paul Michel is the retired Chief Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  The Federal Circuit is particularly known for its decisions on patent law.  The Court’s decisions set legal precedent and are binding on the entire nation.  Judge Michel has authored more than 800 patent appeal decisions.  Judge Michel is one of the world’s leading experts on intellectual property protection.  Prior to appointment to the Federal Judiciary, he was an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assistant Prosecutor in the Watergate Affair in Washington, and a Prosecutor in the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section.  He subsequently served as counsel and administrative assistant to U.S. Senator Arlen Specter.  He commenced service on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal District in 1988.  Between 2004 and 2010, he was the Chief Judge.   Paul Michel co-authored Patent Litigation and Strategy with fellow Federal Circuit Judge Kimberly Ann Moore and patent attorney Ralph Lupo.  Judge Michel received an AB degree from Williams College and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia Law School.

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