BIOGRAPHIES:

David Perez
david@chaienergy.org

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.