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About PEM

MANAGEMENT TEAM
Bruno D.V. Marino, CEO, Founder & Chairman
John O'Sullivan, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
Erna Koch, VP Business Development, Legal Counsel                                                                                                                           

Brandt Rousseaux, Adviser, International Business Development

David D. Smyth, Director, Non-profict Operations                                                                                                                      

BRUNO D.V. MARINO - CEO, Founder & Chairman
Bruno Marino is a scientific entrepreneur with over 20 years in diverse start-up environments serving as CEO, COO, CTO and Director of Research. He has extensive experience with diverse approaches and instrumentation for isotopic analysis and has published extensively in the areas of global climate change science, environmental monitoring and ecosystem management of closed systems. He served as Director of Science and Research at Biosphere 2 and as Research Associate of Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University. He is a graduate of Phillips Andover Academy, Johns Hopkins University & Harvard University where he received his M.A.and Ph.D. degrees and was awarded a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Fellowship in the Division of Applied Sciences and Earth Sciences. (bruno.marino@pem-carbon.com) (click here for an abbreviated CV or visit: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JSBqb2QAAAAJ for a google scholar computer generated list of publications and related articles--may contain errors)

JOHN O'SULLIVAN - Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
John has over 15 years of a broad range of financial, operational, business development and consulting experience with early stage, middle market and Fortune 500 companies. John has served in a variety of senior management capacities in early-stage technology companies over the past 10 years. John was a principal with Masthead Venture Partners, a technology-based venture capital firm and a CPA with Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers). He is a graduate of the University of Maine with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and Northeastern University with an M.B.A. (john.osullivan@pem-carbon.com)

ERNA J. KOCH - VP Business Development, General Counsel
Erna Koch has extensive experience in diverse areas of science-based policy and has worked with a variety of start-ups advising in areas of business strategy, finance, intellectual property and personnel management. She holds an M.P.A. from the J.F.K. School of Government., Harvard University; an LL.M. from Georgetown University and a J.D. from University of Maine. (erna.koch@pem-carbon.com)

BRANDT ROUSSEAUX - Adviser, International Business Development                                                                                         Brandt Rousseaux is currently Vice President of North America for FDM Group in New York City where he is responsible for operations, business development and expansion of the US FDM IT Academy. Previously he was Director of International Programs for four years at Rosetta Stone where he expanded international sales and marketing offices in Tokyo, London, Seoul and Munich and grew revenue to $40M+ and staff to 120. Brandt retired from the Coast Guard in 2006 and holds a Bachelor of Science in Government from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, a Master of Military Studies (Honors in Intelligence) from American Military University, and a Master of Public Policy from Princeton University. He also holds a Chief Information Officer Certificate from the U.S. National Defense University.

DAVID D. SMYTH - Director, Honor Bound Foundation
David Smyth has extensive experience in the non-profit sector and was a registered environmental lobbyist during the Reagan Administration. He holds a B.A. from the London School of Economics. (david.smyth@pem-carbon.com)

Database and IT Director Consultant
A high level IT industry executive is consulting with PEM to develop software and IT systems to serve PEM's science and business related needs.

Sales and Marketing Director
Pending.                                                                                                                                                                      

Carbon Cycle and Carbon Credit Finance Director Consultant
PEM is working with several individuals on a consulting and/or contract basis to develop commercial approaches to data analysis and synthesis resulting in GHG financial instruments. Full time hires are pending.

Contract Manufacturing -  Kansas City Plant, Kansas City, MO, National Secure Manufacturing Facility