David A. Field, President
President, Open Energy Corporation
David Field is currently President of Open Energy Corporation. Prior to joining Open Energy Corporation, Mr. Field was a senior executive at Clark Security Products, the largest independent vertically integrated security distribution company in North America. Previously, he founded and managed several companies in the energy sector. Most recently, Mr. Field founded and was CEO of Clarus Energy Partners, a leading Distributed Generation developer, owner and operator that was acquired by Hunt Power in early 2004. Prior to Clarus Energy, Mr. Field co-founded Omaha-based Kiewit Fuels, a renewable energy company specializing in the development of biofuels production. In addition to a career in sustainable energy development, he also has an extensive background in water technology and infrastructure development, with companies such as; Bechtel, Peter Kiewit, and Poseidon Resources, as well as, in corporate finance with Citicorp. Mr. Field holds a MBA from the Garvin School of International Management (Thunderbird).
Mary Margaret Zoeller, Vice President
Technology and Business Advisor, von Liebig Center
Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD
Ms. Zoeller is a Technology and Business Advisor to the William J. von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement at the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering. She has 25 years experience in high technology, building start-up and early stage operations and managing growth companies. She has a proven track record of establishing new product categories based on emerging technologies, and successfully creating and developing new markets for these hardware and software products worldwide.
Ms. Zoeller has held senior management positions at Proxima Corporation, Phoenix Technologies Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Company, PRAJA inc., SignOnSanDiego, and Construction Bidboard. She was also a Managing Director and Co-Founder of Beachhead, LLC, a venture operation providing early stage companies with strategic business planning, financing, operations and general management services. Ms. Zoeller is currently a consultant to early stage and growth companies, and serves on several Boards of Advisors and Boards of Directors.
Ms. Zoeller is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a BS in Chemistry, and the University of Notre Dame with a MBA in Finance and Management. She also completed the Stanford Executive Program.
Michael Bevis, Treasurer and Secretary
Commercial Lending, San Diego National Bank
Michael Bevis, who serves as a Community Business Banker for San Diego National Bank and teaches college courses in Corporate Finance and Business administration for the University of Phoenix and Ashford University. He obtained his undergraduate degree from San Diego State University in Psychology and possesses his Masters Degrees in Finance and Marketing from National University. Michael is very passionate about San Diego and its precious resources and continues to spend his free time on the beaches whether it be sailing the bays or surfing at the beach with his two teenage children or playing beach volleyball with boy’s he coaches from Point Loma High School.
Pamela Brousseau
Marketing Coordinator, US Mills - Enrico's
Jenny K. Goodman
Associate, Sullivan Hill Lewin Rez & Engel
Jenny Goodman focuses her practice in business and civil litigation, specializing in complex business disputes, professional malpractice defense involving attorneys, real estate professionals and stockbrokers, and real estate litigation. She specializes in matters brought under the California Environmental Act (CEQA). Ms. Goodman not only represents her clients in the Superior Court, but also successfully represents them in subsequent appeals. Ms. Goodman has two published opinions resulting from matters in which she represented the successful party in both the Superior and Appellate Courts. Ms. Goodman graduated from Indiana University-Bloomington with a B.A. in criminal justice and a minor in Spanish. She received her J.D. from California Western School of Law in 1991 in an accelerated program. Ms. Goodman also completed a summer program in London in 1990 where she studied the British legal system.
Sandor Edwin Kaupp
Medical Researcher, United States Navy
Sandor Kaupp is a native Southern Californian and a product of California's public education system. He has focused his professional career on aspects of scientific investigations in marine biology and human physiology. He worked for eight years as both a graduate student and Staff Research Associate with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography; and four years as a research scientist in Human Performance Development at the Naval Health Research Center, San Diego. Since 1998, Mr. Kaupp has worked as a Research Analyst with the Navy Refractive Surgery Center, Opthalmology, Naval Medical Center San Diego. Mr. Kaupp received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his Masters of Science Degree in Marine Biology from the University of California, San Diego.
Nancy Sherman
Executive Director, Harmonium, Inc.
David Welborn
David Welborn, a retired psychologist, has done much to support private land conservation in Mexico and South America. He has also helped better our local environment through his work on The San Diego Foundation’s Environment Working Group, where he and his wife have a donor advised fund. David is an avid outdoors enthusiast, kayaker and traveler.