VJ Andrew Angelo - Managing Director, International Infrastructure Company, Ltd.

Mr. Angelo is a senior financial services expert with over thirty-five years’ experience in the financial sector. He has worked in New York, Europe, the UK and Asia in a variety of financial product development, technology, investor relations and product structuring roles. Mr. Angelo has also spent time as an FCA Compliance Officer. A senior leader with experience at several multinational investment companies, Mr. Angelo now acts as a corporate advisor and Non-Executive Director to firms in the renewable energy and social impact sectors.

James Garey Ellison - Director, International Infrastructure Company, Ltd. 
Mr. Ellison holds several accounting degrees and is an active member of the Association of Chartered Accountants. He has previously specialized in United Kingdom corporate entities on behalf of Global Assets Management, Ltd, Coutts Bank of London, and Oakfield CSP. Mr. Ellison has also designed intricate computer-aided accounting reconciliation processes which have been adopted by UK insurance providers and continue in use to this date. Additionally, Mr. Ellison brings his technological approach to accounting and management to advise the various private Boards to which he is appointed.

James Llewelyn Davies - Director, International Infrastructure Company, Ltd. 
Mr. Davies holds a degree in the field of physics, with a strong mathematical background, and has spent his career as a trailblazer in the capital markets and commodities markets. He has spearheaded multiple successful start-up/early-stage businesses, holding roles ranging from CEO, CFO, COO, to CTO. Mr. Davies possesses global experience having driven projects in diverse jurisdictions such as Europe, Asia, Australia, and the United States. Mr. Davies brings his broad skill set to the Company, specifically related to systems architecture and design, innovation, and corporate governance.

Richard Alain Granier - Director, International Infrastructure Company, Ltd. 
Mr. Granier was educated in finance and business in his native France, achieving his initial degree in 1972. He has served as member in widely recognized French business associations and commissions since 1973. In the private sector, Mr. Granier has achieved numerous milestones in his areas of specialty: economy and finance, management, trading, banking, securities, fixed-income market, mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Granier’s business acumen has resulted in the establishment, management and long-term success of businesses in markets including North America, South America, the Gulf States, and Asia. In parallel to his business success, Mr. Granier remains a champion of humanitarian causes, focusing particularly in the areas of clean energy and environmental technologies. Mr. Granier is fluent in French, English, and Spanish.

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The Advisory Board

The Non-Executive, Non-Voting Advisory Board of International Infrastructure Company, Ltd. consists of:

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Pat Choate PhD. - Advisor to the board of International Infrastructure Company, Ltd. The Company’s Advisory Board members are not publicly registered and do not vote on corporate matters. The Company’s Advisors solely provide advice and counsel to the voting board.
Mr. Choate is an economist. He has served in executive positions in government and industry. He is a national best-selling author of nine books about development economics, several of which have been translated into Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
Choate is a former Director of Development Planning for the State Government of Oklahoma, Commissioner of Economic Development for the State of Tennessee, Administrator of the US Department of Commerce’s Appalachian and Southern U.S. Economic Development Offices, and Director of the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s Office of Economic Research. He has served on three Presidential Commissions on development, testified as an expert witness before Congress more than 50 times, was named the “Father of U.S. Competitiveness” by the New York Times for popularizing the concept with his book The High-Flex Society (Knopf, 1986) and “Mr. Infrastructure” by the Washington Post for branding and simplifying the term with his book America in Ruins: The Decaying Infrastructure (Duke University Press, 1981).
 

Following the end of his nine-year appointment in the U.S. Department of Commerce (1981), Choate was employed by TRW Inc. as Vice President for Public Policy. For a decade, he devised corporate policy on various public policy issues, led the formation of a 200-Member Congressional Caucus on Competitiveness, and created a support organization (Congressional Economic Leadership Institute) that he chaired or co-chaired for 16 years.

In 1990, he founded the Manufacturing Policy Project (MPP) – a private, economic development research organization located in Washington DC – and subsequently, he provided strategic advice to private and public organizations including the Ford Motor Company, the General Motors Corporation, Daimler-Chrysler Corporation, Milliken and Co., Crafted with Pride in USA, The Biotronics Corporation, The Ford Foundation, Intellectual Ventures Inc., Corning Inc., The United Steel Workers, The United Automotive Workers, The U.S.-China Security Review Commission, The Council on Foreign Relations, The U.S. Treasury’s Internal Revenue Service (International Division), The U.S. Small Business Administration, The TPL Group, PCS Wireless and PhRMA.

He was Vice Chair of the U.S. Defence Department’s Science Board Task Force on Foreign Ownership and Control of U.S. Industry, a Member of the U.S. Labor Department’s Commission on the American Work Force and the National Research Council’s Committee on Vocational Education in Depressed Areas.

Choate was a panellist on the U.S. Senate’s Advisory Commission on Infrastructure and the U.S House of Representatives’ Trade and Job Caucuses. He authored two studies for the U.S.-China Security Commission – one on China’s manufacturing expansion and the U.S. Industrial base and the other on Advanced Technology Trade with China. He has written extensively with articles published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribute, the Harvard Business Review and various policy institute.

Since 2005, Choate has focused his attention on innovation, intellectual property rights and development. He has testified before Congress and briefed various Committees on patent rights and development. His books on the topic include Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization (Knopf 2005), Dangerous Business: The Risks of Globalization (Knopf, 2008) and Saving Capitalism (Vintage 2009). Choate advises and invests with inventors and start-up technology companies. 
Choate assisted Ross Perot create the Reform Party political movement in the United States, was economic advisor for Perot’s 1992 Presidential candidacy, and Perot’s Vice-Presidential running mate in 1996. Pat Choate holds a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of Texas, and an M.A. and PhD in Economics from the University of Oklahoma.

Dr. Brent Blackwelder - Advisor to the board of International Infrastructure Company, Ltd. The Company’s Advisory Board members are not publicly registered and do not vote on corporate matters. The Company’s Advisors solely provide advice and counsel to the voting board.
Dr. Brent Blackwelder is a global environmental advocate. Vanity Fair Magazine listed Blackwelder in 2005 as one of the 22 Best Stewards of the Planet. Between 1994 and 2009, he was President of Friends of the Earth (U.S.), which is a founding member of Friends of the Earth International, the world largest grassroots environmental network. He led Friends of the Earth in projects and campaigns that generally fit into four major categories – (1) climate and energy projects, all related to reducing pollution and carbon emissions, (2) projects related to agriculture and food processing technologies, (3) projects focused on preserving rivers, forests and oceans, and (4) projects to make U.S. and international economic policies more environmentally friendly and supportive of human rights. Brent Blackwelder has testified before the U.S. Congress as an expert witness more than 100 times. He is the author of numerous books, reports and articles. Brent Blackwelder holds a AB degree in mathematics from Duke University, an MA in mathematics from Yale University and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Maryland.

Judge (ret.) Paul Michel - Advisor to the board of International Infrastructure Company, Ltd. The Company’s Advisory Board members are not publicly registered and do not vote on corporate matters. The Company’s Advisors solely provide advice and counsel to the voting board.
Mr. Michel the retired Chief Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The Federal Circuit is particularly known for its decisions on patent law. The Court’s decisions set legal precedent and are binding on the entire nation. Judge Michel has authored more than 800 patent appeal decisions. Judge Michel is one of the world’s leading experts on intellectual property protection. Prior to appointment to the Federal Judiciary, he was an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assistant Prosecutor in the Watergate Affair in Washington, and a Prosecutor in the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section. He subsequently served as counsel and administrative assistant to U.S. Senator Arlen Specter. He commenced service on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal District in 1988. Between 2004 and 2010, he was the Chief Judge. Paul Michel co-authored Patent Litigation and Strategy with fellow Federal Circuit Judge Kimberly Ann Moore and patent attorney Ralph Lupo. Judge Michel received an AB degree from Williams College and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia Law School.

Judah Pinchas Benay - Advisor to the board of International Infrastructure Company, Ltd. The Company’s Advisory Board members are not publicly registered and do not vote on corporate matters. The Company’s Advisors solely provide advice and counsel to the voting board.
Mr. Benay is a mathematician who has employed this capacity in business. Further, Mr. Benay engages as an anonymous, but important charitable actor with a philanthropic background that has involved the giving of his time, expertise, and resources. Mr. Benay currently dedicates the principal portion of his time to identifying and developing technologies related to shelter, sustenance, and the provision of power and water.

Jean Fahmy - Advisor to the board of International Infrastructure Company, Ltd. The Company’s Advisory Board members are not publicly registered and do not vote on corporate matters. The Company’s Advisors solely provide advice and counsel to the voting board. 
Mr. Fahmy is a proven technologist with a strong grasp of business, a strategic thinker, and a results-oriented leader. Serving in the capacities of Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer, Fahmy has led through creativity, innovation, and an entrepreneurial spirit developed over a twenty-five-year career inspiring and developing teams of all sizes to deliver exceptional results. Fahmy is tasked with the alignment and communication of the company’s business strategy with the technology, people, programs, products, solutions and services.

Earlier, Fahmy found success as a tech entrepreneur and digital transformation expert leading through creativity, innovation, and an entrepreneurial spirit, founding, building managing and selling three technology businesses. During his career, Fahmy has also served as the CTO of an automotive group valued at two billion dollars, and as the CTO for a group of over thirty renown consumer brands, building performing teams and transformative products spanned across a variety of industries such as retail, logistics, automotive, media, insurance, education, IT, R&D and non-profits.

Fahmy’s accomplishments have garnered over a dozen Technology and Entrepreneurship awards. His success in the technology industry has made Fahmy a valued and frequent speaker at international industry Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship conferences and has been reinforced by his eight-year tenure as a teacher at l’École Polytechnique. Fahmy is bilingual (French and English) and he is highly experienced in the fields of Strategy and Governance, Financial Management, People and Resources, PPM and Projects, Service Planning and Data Architecture, Apps, Digital Transformation, Data and BI, Infrastructure, Operations, and Security Risk.

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