BIOGRAPHIES:

David Perez
david@chaienergy.org

David Perez is the co-founder of Chai Energy, LLC. (www.chainergy.org) 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 focused in areas related to alternative energy, nanotechnology, water processing, Life Sciences and homeland security container tracking. David Perez, co-founder with his wife Orly of 2 Life 18 Help and Rescue Organization (www.2lIfe18.org), 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 that specializes in oil and gas exploration and development that maintains two Oil Sands investments 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 patents and intellectual property in areas related to alternative energy, nanotechnology, water processing and homeland security container tracking.

David has over 26 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 2002. Since 2002, 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 over $65 million in Farm-in and M&A transactions.

Over the past 26 years, David Perez and his wife Orly have been actively supporting many local and national charities including the American Red Cross, Children’s Hospital, The American Cancer Society, YMCA, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, American Cancer Society, Elton John Aids Foundation, American Congress for Truth, Orangewood Children’s Foundation, The San Diego Jewish Academy, Temple Beth Am, United Jewish Foundation, Scripps Polster Breast Care Center, San Diego Coalition for the Homeless and the YMCA. David and Orly are also major donors to the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Jewish Family Services (JFS), The Friends of Israeli Defense Forces (FIDF), The Israeli Air Force Foundation (IAF), Jewish National Fund (JNF), American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), The Jenna Druck Foundation and other non-profit organizations 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, and is an avid baseball, football and basketball fan watching his kids and local sports teams in action. 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 fluent English and French and partially fluent in Hebrew. David and Orly cite the Jewish principle of "Tikunolam" - an imperative to heal the world - as a way of explaining their charitable actions.

David Perez only considers investments in areas related to:
Alternative Energy-Water-Nanotechnology-Life Sciences-Homeland Security