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Joseph D. Ben-Dak, Ph.D.    Chairman and Chief Technology Officer

Dr. Joseph D. Ben-Dak has a solid record of accomplishments as a dynamic path-setter, as a leader of organizations and businesses, and as a strategic adviser with governments, international organizations, multi-national banks, universities, insurance groups and political risk analysts, entrepreneurs, and corporations. The fields and range of his skills, talents and experiences are extensive, diverse and include executive, investment management, and strategic evaluation positions for innovative and sustainable science and technology, for international development planning, and for security/defense management.

Dr. Ben-Dak's scholarship is equally impressive, both as an academic and as a practitioner with a doctorate in Methodology and Organizational Sociology, and a doctorate in the Program of Research on Conflict Resolution, both from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His academic record includes the Policy Sciences, Planning Sciences and Peace Studies Professorship at the University of Haifa, Israel; the National Research Council Professorship in Technology Planning and Communication at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; and the Visiting Senior Scholar (Sustainable Development) at Papua New Guinea's Institute for National Planning. He was elected a fellow of AAAS in Mathematics and Economics and won the US National Academy of Science Dissertation Award for Peace Studies. He has received, among a few honors, the first ever Honorary Doctorate from the Technical University of Mongolia, Ulaan Baatar.

His posts and positions have included:

United Nations: Principal Advisor to the Secretary General, Science and Technology and Public Management, (UNDP, 1992-1997), and the founder and Chief of the United Nations Global Technology Group. Ben-Dak has initiated and established successful sustainable technology and science businesses in numerous countries, including Latin America, Africa, China, Russia, Mongolia and the Arab World.

Metropolis, Paris and Government of France: Co-leader, International Task Force on "Eco-INWARDS and Environmental Technology Management".

Korea: Dr. Ben-Dak was instrumental in the original development and continued programming of Korea's KAIST/KIST, the national center of public and private industrial and scientific planning which has become since April, 2006 the leading financial /planning graduate training center in Korea.

Japan: Dr. Ben-Dak presented the earliest and continuous introduction of technology formative evaluation regime and concerns of sustainable environment to Japan's Ministry of International Trade, MITI [now METI], which includes energy.

Mid-Market Securities, Investment Banking Advisors, New York: Dr Ben-Dak is also serving presently 'of Counsel' for opportunities related to International Strategy and Sustainable Science Management.

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