Board of Directors

David Perez.....*..... Sheila Rockwell.....*.....Robert Hotto
Bridget Brigitte McDonald.....*.....Jeff Smith

David Perez

Founder and President

Mr. Perez is the co-founder of Chai Energy, LLC. a humanitarian company whose mission it is to provide improved clean drinking water and alternative energy technologies to effect solutions throughout the world with emphasis on poor and third world countries. The company’s intellectual property and patent application are in areas related to alternative energy, nanotechnology, water processing, and homeland security container tracking. David Perez, co-founder with his wife Orly of 2 Life 18 Help and Rescue Organization, was recently honored by A&E Network as one of the top 10 people in the world in 2005 (alongside Oprah, Angelia Jolie and Bono) who have had the greatest impact on our lives over the last year. His efforts during the Katrina disaster not only helped thousands of people, but gave inspiration to many more for help. He is the Recipient of the Channel 10 News (ABC) 2005 Leader of the Year Award. In January 2006, David was named by San Diego Magazine as one of the top 50 People to Watch in 2006. He is also the Recipient of the 2005 NAACP President's Award, a top honor for the North San Diego County branch of the National Association for Advancement of Colored People. He has been featured on 15 nationally televised programs including one of eight featured Heroes of Katrina on a prime-time CNN Special Heroes Among Us, CNN’s On The Story, Fox News Channel’s Your World with Neil Cavuto, CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, ABC’s Good Morning America with Charles Gibson, ABC 10NEWS, KGTV’s San Diego Prime Time Special with Salvador Rivera, ABC’s World News This Morning, NBC’s Early Today Show, NBC’s Today Show with George Lewis, MSNBC’s Connected: Coast to Coast, MSNBC's Live, The Situation with Tucker Carlson and over 70 articles have been published in local, national and international newspapers, magazines and the Readers Digest.

David Perez was formerly Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Surge Global Energy, Inc. a publicly traded company (OTC:BB - SRGG.OB) that specializes in oil and gas exploration and development that operates in Canada (Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin), Argentina (Santa Rosa Dome Project) and in the United States. Along with Robert Hotto, he founded Chai Energy, LLC a humanitarian company that holds over 12 issued patents and is in the process of filing an additional 10 patents in areas related to alternative energy, nanotechnology, water processing and homeland security container tracking.

David has over 25 years of entrepreneurial and executive management experience. In 1986, he was the President and co-founder of Cellular Solutions Ltd., a wireless software development company. In 1990, Cellular Solutions Ltd. was sold to TeleSciences Inc., where David remained President of Cellular Solutions. From 1990 to 1992 he ran the TeleSciences wireless billing and operation support systems group. From 1992 to 1995, he provided consulting services for business development, customer acquisition and operational support systems for TeleSciences and other large telephone and cable TV operators. In 1994, Mr. Perez founded and became CEO of COM2001 Corporation, also known as Alexis Communications, Inc., a developer of unified communications software for Application Service Providers (ASPs) and small- to large-scale enterprises. He continued in various executive positions at COM2001/Alexis Communications until 2001. Since 2001, David has been providing business development and private equity consulting services to venture capital groups and investment banks. Since October 2003, Mr. Perez provided consulting services to companies engaged in mining, oil and gas exploration. He joined Surge Global Energy in October of 2004 and was responsible for executing a multi-million dollar farmout agreement with Deep Well Oil and Gas Inc. and successfully raised the required capital to complete drilling operations in Alberta, Canada.

Over the past 24 years, David Perez and his wife Orly have been actively supporting many local and national charities including the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Children’s Hospital, The American Cancer Society, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, American Cancer Society, Elton John Aids Foundation, The San Diego Jewish Academy, Temple Beth Am, United Jewish Foundation, Jewish National Fund, Scripps Polster Breast Care Center, San Diego Coalition for the Homeless, The Giving Heart Foundation, Technion and other foundations in the USA and Israel.

David was born in Casablanca, Morocco and immigrated to the United States at the age of 6 years old. He is happily married to his soul mate Orly who was born in Israel, together they have been blessed with three spectacular children. David enjoys fishing, swimming, working out, playing baseball, football and basketball with his kids. He also enjoys the Southern California beaches with his wife and vacationing all over the world. By the time he reached 33 years of age he had traveled to 34 countries and speaks English, French and Hebrew. David and Orly cite the Jewish principle of "tikunolam" - an imperative to heal the world - as a way of explaining their charitable actions.

Sheila Rockwell

Treasurer

Sheila Rockwell has been a dedicated supporter of the 2 Life 18 Help and Rescue efforts from the start. With her extensive accounting experience, she has helped 2 Life 18 keep the books balanced. A natural manager, she works wonderfully with groups of people and has helped shape the organization. Since 1979, she has served on the boards of non-profit organizations in Canada and supervised the accounting and administration of both profit and non-profit organizations in Canada and the US, including Tabernacle of Praise Church, Shiloh Pentecostal Church of St. Albert, Shiloh Tabernacle of Athabasca, and Genesis Institute. She takes pride in giving back to the community via her humanitarian work.

Robert Hotto

Director

Robert Hotto is an inventor, engineer, and researcher with expertise in real-time control systems, real-time software design and coding, analog and digital electronics, and physics-related projects. He has developed approaches to developing and solving technical applications employing first principles, a scientific approach requiring the disciplines of understanding and stating the problems, knowledge, and goals as clearly as possible. His inventions include:

- 27 US patents and several foreign patents. Additional patent applications are on file at the USPTO and the Japanese patent office.
- Prototype of the first PDA in 1977 which was licensed and manufactured by Sharp Corporation, Casio, Toshiba and 14 other companies. The patent was sold in 1987.
- First Liquid Crystal Printer in 1977 which was licensed and manufactured by Cannon. He developed and patented a portfolio of four patents involving adaptive addressing for matrix displays. This technology was successfully implemented in several military applications such as the ITT SINGCARS radio handset and received a DARPA award.
- Patented a portfolio of 3 inventions relating to the front-end correction and de-noising of direct conversion RF signals that are directed to the improvements to radio receivers and cable systems.

Robert’s project accomplishments include: the development of a gantry robotics welding system for the Atlas rocket manufacturing at plant 19 in San Diego at General Dynamics. The system successfully overcame problems that had flawed the welding and produced the first defect-free welds for the Atlas. At Lockheed, Robert developed the oxygen monitoring system for the shuttle launch pad. This was in response to a critical accident and required quick delivery. At Group W, he developed the first interactive cable TV control system. Additionally, at ABC talk radio, he developed the satellite communication and control computer that provide central control. Robert is happy to lend his analytic talents to help advance 2 Life 18 Help and Rescue.

Bridget Brigitte McDonald, Ph.D.

Artistic Liaison & Creative Director

Bridget Brigitte McDonald, Ph.D. is an award-winning songwriter, singer, and writer who is President of record-label Bionic Sisters Productions. She met the remarkable Perez Family as a co-honoree at the Women’s International Center Living Legacy Awards and is honored to participate in their humanitarian relief efforts as Artistic Liaison and Creative Director by involving artists, musicians, and the community to participate in much-needed continuing Katrina and disaster relief efforts. With a symphony-composer-grandmother and a radio-technology-pioneer-grandfather, Bridget was destined for Music and the Arts. With a world-renowned-author/educator mother and attorney father, she went on to receive a BA from UC Berkeley (Chinese History & Comparative Literature English/French/German) and MA (French) and a Ph.D. (Humanities Center) from The Johns Hopkins University. She has written 2 novels (Deathbeds and The Quiet), a translation of French philosophy (The Experience of Freedom, Stanford), and has poems in journals across the country. She taught at the University of Orléans, France, and returned to California with her husband Jean-Pierre, a graphic web designer and manager with diplomas in gourmet cooking. Proud parents of many adopted animals, they live in a drug and alcohol-free home. After wrestling with health issues, Bridget brought out her music CD Where Birds Meet in the Rain, since played on radio stations worldwide. After performing in France, Ireland, Canada, Mexico and on television, her Bridget Brigitte Special aired on TV. She has featured more than 150 performers in her signature music shows at Humphrey’s, with line-ups always including an even mix of women and men. Bills she has played on have included Lucinda Williams, Jonatha Brooke, and Harriet Schock (“That Ain’t No Way to Treat a Lady”). Bridget was recognized at the Los Angeles Music Awards alongside Minnie Driver, and her 10-song music-video DVD has himbos replacing bimbos. She is President of San Diego Songwriter's Guild, Advisor at the Asian American Repertory Theatre (spotlighting Asian-Amerian playwrights, actors, and stories), Vice President of The Women’s International Center (celebrating women and excellence), and her music has helped raise funds for such organizations as The Grammy’s MusiCares, GoGirlsMusic, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Vietnamese American Women Artists, National Breast Cancer Foundation, Artivist Independent Film Collective, and Artists Helping Artists, among others. Bridget looks forward to joining forces with the very special Perez Team at the 2 Life 18 Help and Rescue Organization to help bring aid to those in need by helping others help themselves, using their own strengths. Fighting on a daily basis against all odds for what she believes in, she is a natural match for the mission of 2 Life 18 Help and Rescue. If you feel you can do more to help survivors of natural disasters, please let us know, we’d love to work with you! Contact: bridget "at" helpandrescue.org or at Bionic Sisters Productions PO Box 669 Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067-0669 tel: 858-759-356 seven.

Jeff Smith

Director

Jeffrey Smith is an accomplished Chief Operating Officer with more than 23 years experience working in the real estate industry. As General Manager of JCS Holdings of South Florida, Smith is responsible for directing the operations of a company with multiple interests, including ownership of numerous residential/commercial projects, a property management firm, Private Aviation Charter Company, expansion into the consumer electronics market as well as opening Southeasten United States Grocery Markets to Smoothies. Smith’s extensive experience as Operations Manager, Financial Analyst, and Acquisitions Manager for companies including UDC Homes, Guild Mortgage Company and Hallmark Development in San Diego, California - 6,000 residential units, as well as Marketing Edge in Phoenix, Arizona - 550 Units, has helped him gain diverse experience in dealing with regulatory compliance management, acquisition assessment and construction management and financial analysis of many business ventures.

A native of Rockford, Illinois, Smith currently resides in Boynton Beach, Florida with wife Cean and their young daughter Cierra and son Blake. Jeff has earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business from Arizona State University in 1984. He has also actively volunteered at the San Diego Burn Institute, the Boys & Girls Club of Broward County, and the McCarthys Wild Animal Preserve.

....................David Perez.....*.....Sheila Rockwell.....*.....Robert Hotto
............................Bridget Brigitte McDonald.....*.....Jeff Smith