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Board of Directors
David Perez.* Sheila Rockwell.* Bridget Brigitte McDonald.*.Willie H. Davis
David Perez
Founder and President
David 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 and water processing.
David Perez is the Recipient of the Channel 10 News (ABC) 2005 Leader of the Year Award and 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. David Perez was honored by A&E Network as one of the top 10 people in the world in 2005 who had the greatest impact on the lives of people in 2005 (honorees include Oprah, U2’s Bono, Angelina Jolie, Presidents Clinton and Bush). His efforts and tremendous accomplishments during the Katrina disaster not only helped thousands of people, but gave inspiration to many more. In January 2006, David was named by San Diego Magazine as one of the top 50 People to Watch in 2006. David Perez 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 has over 28 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, David 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, David Perez provided consulting services to companies engaged in mining, oil and gas exploration. David Perez served as CEO and Chairman of Surge Global Energy, Inc a public Oil and Gas Company from 2004-2008, with offices based in Canada and the USA.
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, IDF, FIDF, Israeli Air Force Foundation, 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. Since 1993 David has been happily married to his soul mate Orly who was born in Israel, together they have been blessed with three wonderful 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 Foundation, Inc. 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.
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 2 Life 18 Foundation, Inc. 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 Foundation, Inc.. 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 Bionic Sisters Productions PO Box 669 Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067-0669 tel: 858-759-356 seven.
Willie H. Davis
Director & Washington Liaison
For 30 years prior to the establishment of Davis Executive Associates, Mr. Davis applied his entrepreneurial talents to the creation of Birch & Davis Holdings, Inc., a management consulting firm dedicated to helping the management and staff of numerous organizations improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations. A graduate of the MBA program at the University of Massachusetts, he began his career with Ford Motor Company in Kansas City. Later, while with the Black Economic Union of Greater Kansas City, Mr. Davis provided assistance to existing and potential small businesses by creating new ventures, conducting feasibility studies, assessing the management capabilities of prospective owners, preparing financial packages, and helping with bank negotiations.
In 1976, Mr. Davis co founded Birch & Davis Associates, Inc., which provided professional services to health care organizations and government agencies. For 23 years, until its acquisition by a large public corporation, he helped lead B&D’s impressive evolution from a two-person operation into a multi-component, $75 Million organization that employed more than 900 people and that provided services in all 50 States and in 40 foreign countries, and to the majority of the federal health initiatives and programs across multiple agencies.
As noted earlier, Mr. Davis began his professional career in the Midwestern United States nurturing aspiring entrepreneurs and promoting community economic development efforts. Throughout his career he has worked in many diverse settings ranging from large multinational corporations to small “storefront” operations in urban communities. He has also directed numerous international projects that have taken him throughout the Caribbean, in sub-Saharan Africa, and as far away as South Africa, where he directed a four-year effort to provide entrepreneurial training to Black South African businessmen striving to survive in an economy dominated by apartheid.
Mr. Davis has always been keenly aware of the community in which he resides by assisting other small businesses, volunteer efforts, and corporate mentoring. He is also extremely devoted to groups that work with children. He has recently served on the Board of Directors of the Montgomery County, Maryland Boys & Girls Club, The Shepherds Table of Montgomery County, Maryland, and the International Hospital for Children. Earlier in his career, Mr. Davis served on the board for the Professional Services Council, the National Business League, the Student Business Foundation, and the Small Business Federation. Currently he serves on the boards of the National Capital Area Minority Business Opportunity Center, Men Against Breast Cancer, the Washington Tennis and Education Foundation, and The Helene Fuld School of Nursing at Coppin State University.
In 1999 Mr. Davis was honored in Washington, D.C. and in Palm Springs, California as “Entrepreneur of the Year”, and he remains committed to community activities addressing youth issues, homelessness, and drug and alcohol problems.
David Perez.* Sheila Rockwell.* Bridget Brigitte McDonald.* Willie H. Davis