Warren M. Dillard has been our Chief Executive and Financial Officer and Accounting
Officer and a director since June 2010. Since February 2011 Mr. Dillard has been
our Principal Financial and Accounting Officer. He has previously managed mutual
funds with the American Funds group of funds, was CFO of Pepperdine University
and has been active in the development of numerous early stage companies in a
variety of industries. Since 2005, Mr. Dillard has served as the President and
a director of Enercor, Inc., a private corporation involved in oil and gas exploration
and development in the western United States. Since the spring of 2010, Mr. Dillard’s
involvement with Enercor has been minimal. Mr. Dillard holds a degree in Accounting
from Texas A & M University and an MBA in Finance from the Harvard Business
School.
Steven M. Powers has been a director since June 2010. Since February 2011,
Mr. Powers has been our Vice President of Business Development and our Secretary.
Since 2005, Mr. Powers has served as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and a
director of Enercor, Inc., a private corporation involved in oil and gas exploration
and development. Prior to his association with Enercor, Mr. Powers was a real
estate developer. Mr. Powers earned a degree in philosophy from the University
of California at Santa Barbara as well as an MBA from the University of California
at Los Angeles.
Roger May was the original Founder of the SQT enterprise in 2014 and has been
a director since July 1, 2017. Mr. May has extensive international business
experience over the last 40 years, resided in the USA for 22 years, returning
to Australia September 2001. Recognized Expert in “start-up” enterprises
from inception to fully operational commercial ventures. He has overcome obstacles
with great ability, tenacity, flexibility and creative initiative. Acknowledged
visionary and creator combined with strong implementation skills. He has excellent
capital raising skills in tens of millions of dollars. He has been Founder,
Chairman & CEO of five (5) publicly listed companies in the USA and Australia.
He resided in the USA for 22 years. He has founded several high-tech. communications
and mineral resource development companies. Presently focused on Global commercialization
of primary component material essential in manufacture of PV Solar panels, Semi-conductor,
and all high-end electronics in the USA and Australia.
David A B Halstead has been a director since July 1, 2017. David has a wide
range of corporate, secretarial and trusts experience, in both offshore and
onshore companies. In 1973 he became a partner in a local chartered accounting
firm and in 1984 a principal in the Hong Kong office of Coopers & Lybrand
[now PWC] specializing in international corporate and secretarial services,
and offshore tax structures. Upon his return to Auckland in 1994, he established
and operated, several integrated medical centers, a surgical hospital in Auckland
and a state of the art diagnostic center. He then spent 3 years working with
World Vision fund raising for its micro finance arm “Vision Fund”
involved with the capitalization and establishment of Vision Fund Cambodia.
Reflecting his interest in health care delivery, in 2003 to this day, he became,
and is a Trustee of the New Zealand based international medical aid charity,
Medical Aid Abroad. Since 2006, David has acted as a director, company secretary
and treasurer for a group of international clients. Contemporaneously he established
and operated, until recently, a unique world-first web based joint venture service
for the New Zealand Government processing immigration medicals online in a secure
platform through a company called NZimed Limited. He is a director of an immigration
sector “lead generation” company, Leadgen Matrix Ltd, Business Epic
Ltd, a company focused on assisting baby boomer SME owner operators maximise
their business exit strategies and value, and Asia Capital (China) Ltd, a NZ
registered Financial Services Provider facilitating investment into Australia
and New Zealand. He is a director of several Hong Kong and Singapore companies
as well as other NZ entities. Mr. Halstead was educated at Kings College, Auckland,
the son of a former New Zealand Cabinet Minister and diplomat. He is a graduate
of the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Commerce and further qualifications
in accounting and taxation.”
Michael Selsman has been a director since July 17, 2017. Mr. Selsman, as principal
of Public Communications Company, Beverly Hills, CA, represents publicly traded
companies as a consultant in both public relations and investor relations. He
is a Director of Gawk, Inc. and is CEO of Archer Entertainment Media Communications,
Inc. He also researches and writes due diligence reports for brokerages, public
and private companies (www.publiccommunicationsco.com). He is also a partner
in Troika Publishing Media, a digital new media company. He entered the entertainment
industry with 20th Century-Fox in New York City, and was subsequently hired
by Paramount Pictures as East Coast Publicity manager. In Hollywood, he became
a public relations executive for motion picture actors, directors and writers.
As a talent agent at Artists Agency (now ICM), he structured arrangements for
prominent films and TV series. Becoming a producer, he re-joined 20th Century-Fox,
and then MGM, and became an independent producer making films in various states.
He has recently published his autobiography, “All is Vanity”. He
has been a talent agent with Artist Agency Corporation (now ICM) participating
in many highly regarded television series and talent. He has provided investor
relations counsel to numerous publicly traded companies. Mr. Selsman has served
on the boards of a number of major charities and lectured at most of the major
universities in the Los Angeles area.
Graphene and Solar Technologies Ltd currently has 30 employees.
