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Contributors to World View Water and Related Efforts

Key Personnel Adam Jones, Chief Operating Officer, is the Associate Director of Licensing and Business Development and a founding member of the University of California at Santa Barbaras Office of Technology Transfer, where he works with entrepreneurs, companies, and researchers to help facilitate the commercialization of technology developed at the institution. Adam is responsible for evaluating the potential of early stage technologies, securing intellectual property, assessing new venture opportunities, identifying suitable business partners, and negotiating licensing transactions. He has experience working with entrepreneurs, investors, attorneys, and corporate executives to successfully bring new inventions from the lab to the marketplace. Prior to joining UCSB, Adam was a corporate attorney specializing in counseling companies on matters relating to venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulations, intellectual property, and startup issues. Adam was also the co-founder and CEO of a successful startup company focused on developing and commercializing nanodiamond technology. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast. Adam earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his bachelors degree in biological sciences, high honors, from the UCSB. He is a member of the State Bar of California, the Licensing Executives Society, the Association of University Technology Managers, and the UC Davis Entrepreneurs Academy. His expertise in managing a variety of technologies and business models to maximize startup potential, commercial viability, and patentability will serve him well in his work with WVW. Ian Meyer, Chief Financial Officer, completed his bachelors degree in international business at the University of San Francisco in 2004 and has studied at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain and The Kings School Canterbury in Canterbury, England. He is currently an Analyst for Trustees Inc., a private investment firm that invests in socially, environmentally, and ethically responsible companies worldwide, pairing social impact with financial returns. He is also currently a Director of T&J Meyer Family Foundation, a London-based private family foundation that is dedicated to alleviating human suffering through effective and sustainable giving focused on health, education, and the environment, leveraging its assets to create scalable impact and sustainable solutions to global poverty. He served as the Executive Director of the Foundation from 2007 to 2011. Before that he was a Consultant Specialist for RCM Capital Management in San Francisco. Mark Miller, Chief Technology Officer, studied geology and computer science at San Jose State University and California State University at Northridge. Since 1978 he has led a long and varied technical career, developing a variety of skills, including project management, product design, quality assurance, and software development. He currently serves as Technology Transfer

2 Consultant for Centre daide technologique aux entreprises (CATE-CN) in Sept-Iles, Quebec. Previously, he has served as Technical Services Manager for Blickman, Inc. in Lodi, New Jersey; Principal Consultant for Quality Management Guides in Santa Barbara, California; Executive Director for Alamo Learning Systems in San Ramon, California and Montreal, Quebec; Senior Engineer for Unisys Carpinteria (PulsePoint) in Carpinteria, California; Regulatory Affairs Manager for Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. in Santa Barbara; Quality Assurance Engineer Specialist for Northrop Grumman, Air Combat Systems in Hawthorne, California; Product Assurance Project Engineer for L3 Communications, Ocean Systems in Sylmar, California; Senior Quality Engineer for Allied Signal Aerospace in Sylmar; Senior Quality Assurance Analyst for Bendix Oceanics Division in Sylmar; and Data Analyst for Bendix Electrodynamics Division in Sylmar. Richard Bradford, Physicist, completed his masters degree in physics at the University of California at Davis, after receiving a departmental citation at UCD for his bachelors degree in physics, as well as the Saxon-Patten Award for Physics. He was class valedictorian at ITT. As an associate scientist at Polystor Companys Lithium Battery Research Department, he received two patents for pioneering battery separator polymer coating enhancements, and he reduced standard deviation of battery performance by designing and researching production methods. Ricks current activities include a pursuit, with his colleague of 32 years, Gordon Rogers, of a more profound understanding of Quantum Correlation. Hugo A. Loiciga, Hydrologist, earned both a doctorate and a masters degree in hydrology and water resources at the University of California at Davis, and a bachelors degree in civil engineering from the University of Costa Rica. He is currently a professor of geography at UCSB, where he has taught since 1988. Before that, he held positions at Wright State University and UCDavis and has worked as a Supervising Hydrologist for Agronivelacion/Irrigation District of Moracia in Costa Rica. Throughout the last 25 years, Hugo has concentrated much of his research efforts on making longlasting contributions to the understanding of climate change/variability and land-use change and their linkages to watershed hydrologic processes, focused specifically on the response of regional aquifer systems and vulnerable flood plains, streams, and water quality. He has produced groundbreaking research in several areas: (i) understanding the linkage between climate change and variability and regional groundwater dynamics; (ii) changing streamflow characteristics (peak flows and runoff volume) in forest fire-impacted catchments; (iii) assessing climate variability and the recurrence of droughts in semiarid regions of the western U.S.; (iv) analyzing climatic uncertainty and human risk aversion and their impacts on complex water-resources systems; (v) determining the effect of floodplain development on flood hazards, which opened a novel area of hydrologic inquiry, forensic hydrology; and (vi) developing a mathematically based theory for sustainable water resources development, which places groundwater-surface water interactions, water scarcity, and the economic behavior of human agents within a game-theoretic formulation of water-human-environmental interactions. Hugos research has received national awards and fellowships, and he has led dozens of national technical committees charged with developing stateof-the-art reports, technical reports, standards of practice in several fields of science and technology, and organizing conferences and technical sessions in venues worldwide. Hugo has also been a leader in science education and technology transfer. Since 1989, he has chaired several national committees funded by the American Society of Civil Engineers, a 150,000-member professional society that includes a large water-and-environment section. Those

3 committees have produced award-winning publications in hydrologic monitoring, probabilistic groundwater analysis, geostatistical analysis of hydrologic systems, and climate change and regional hydrology. Their mission has been to bridge the gap between the theoretical realm of cutting-edge hydrologic research and the practice of day-to-day hydrology and water resources. He has also served as scientific advisor to several community and state nonprofit organizations to help them advance causes as wide-ranging as enhancing scientific literacy among the public and promoting environmental justice. Besides his current engagement with WVW, he is working with another private company to develop automated sustainable management of groundwater extraction in riparian aquifer to protect fish habitat. He has also served as U.S. representative to the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (appointed by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences) and worked diligently to strengthen scientific links between domestic and international hydrologists, water-resources analysts, and professionals in related scientific fields. Richard G. Grey, Senior Business Adviser, completed a juris doctorate at the University of San Francisco and both a masters degree in business administration and a bachelors degree in science at UCLA. He has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a General Partner in several angel investment and venture capital firms, including Grey Capital, HMS Group, and HMS Hawaii Management Partners. Before that he served as Director of Meddev Corporation, a manufacturer of medical implants, and President of Vidar Corporation, a manufacturer of signal processing equipment, telecommunications systems, and digital switching gear. John R. Clevenger, Documentarian, received a doctorate in music theory from the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, a masters degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and a bachelors degree from the University of Michigan. As a doctoral student, he carried out extensive research in France and Italy. Known for his attentiveness to detail, he received three national awards for his research and writing, including the National Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences from the U.S. Department of Education. Following a three-year stint as Lecturer at UCSB, John attempted to start an instructional software company. He then worked for four years as a Clinical Data Manager for a Santa Barbara medical device company. He has studied Lean Six Sigma through Villanova University and has read extensively about business administration, project management, and business-process optimization. John now heads an international scientific research group, Genesis Quest, which is investigating the impact of ancient cataclysms on early civilization, while attempting to reverse-engineer lost technologies with transformational implications, such as pyramid power and antigravity. He is pitching a TV reality docuseries to Hollywood called The Enigma Squad and authoring a novel entitledtopically enoughThe Flood. Gordon Rogers, Chief Executive Officer, has a bachelors degree in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley and certification in ISO 9001 auditing and line management from the University of California at Los Angeles. He is a quality engineer for the major defense and aerospace contractor Raytheon, in which role he assures contract satisfaction for delivery of optical, mechanical, and electronic systems. He chairs the Environmentally Controlled Areas Team, a multidisciplinary group of material scientists and instrumentation, facilities, manufacturing, process-engineering, environmental health and safety, information systems, and audit-management personnel. He was the founding member of this team and has managed the group since its inception in 2003. Gordon has also served as site champion for design for manufacture using numerical methods. He currently creates compliance strategies for new product development and supports design, production engineering, and program management for numerous

4 new products under large contracts. Gordons friendly, honest, and thorough style has gained him trust and support throughout the organization and customer and supplier bases. Hence he is perfectly suited to lead WVW to success. Gordon started his entrepreneurial development at age twenty-three, when he invented and patented a massively parallel optical information system. That effort afforded him invaluable insight into venture capital practices, as well as the impact of tax changes, market conditions, and communications on high-tech start-ups. Full resumes with timelines available on request.

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