GREENTEK - Key Persons


Alan Neves

Job Titles:
  • Chief Engineer

ALEX AYZIN

Job Titles:
  • Energy Ambassador, Power Generation

Anessa Allen Santos

Job Titles:
  • Attorney & Blockchain Expert
Biography Anessa Allen Santos, J.D. is a seasoned attorney and business executive having served in senior management positions leading three technology companies from idea through exit by acquisition of publicly traded companies. Afterwards, Anessa started IntelliLaw to provide business and legal consulting services to deep and emerging technology companies worldwide focused on the following practice areas:

BRIAN FIGUEROA - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder
  • Member of the Leadership Team
Biography Brian has more than 25 years of corporate management and entrepreneurial experience. Mr. Figueroa has leveraged his extensive network to build his investment and entrepreneurial career through the founding of domestic and international businesses in various industries, including construction, telecommunications, gaming, and energy. In 2006, he was also an investor in oil, gas and green technologies where he built the expertise and contacts in the renewable sustainable energy industry that inspired him to found GreenTek. Mr. Figueroa is a qualified corporate executive. Throughout the past 25 years, Mr. Figueroa attended and graduated from numerous, entrepreneurial, business and speaking courses. He became certified at the Academy Training and graduated in the Life Mastery, Date with Destiny, and Unleash the Power Within (UPW) Fire Walker Programs in the Anthony Robbins Organizations. Mr. Figueroa graduated from the 3% Club taught by Chicken Soup for the Soul author Mark Victor Hansen and Bob Proctor.

Craig Shah

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Member
  • Designer of Fine Jewelry
Craig Shah is a renowned celebrity Designer of fine Jewelry and Swiss watches. Craig sits on several Advisory Committees throughout the US and is the Global CEO of Craig Shelly Timepieces. He is a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor in GreenTek. GreenTek is proud to be a Diamond Ambassador Partner of Craig Shelly Beverly Hills - Elegant Luxury Timepieces.

Diamond Ambassador

Job Titles:
  • Partner

John M. Latini - Chief Legal Officer

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Counsel
Biography John has more than 30 years of professional experience representing corporations, individuals, and other businesses entities in Northern California. Mr. Latini emphasizes the importance of getting results and working proactively and collaboratively throughout the legal process. His background and skill set make him an expert on identifying issues and providing quick and effective solutions, which he is using to help GreenTek make educated decisions about how to structure and execute our strategies flawlessly. Mr. Latini has practiced law in both small and large law firms, providing legal services to corporations and businesses of all sizes and local banks and lending institutions. Importantly, Mr. Latini represented the RTO (Resolution Trust Corporation) which oversaw the liquidation of failed saving and loan institutions for the Federal Government. RTO ultimately merged into the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation). Mr. Latini has been in-house general counsel to a medium-sized corporation with extensive business operations in multiple jurisdictions responsible for all the legal affairs of the company.

ROY BOA

Job Titles:
  • VP of Business Development, South East Asia

RUBEN BANUELOS

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Co - Founder & VP of Renewable Energy
Biography Mr. Banuelos is a highly motivated professional entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in business startup and administrative business disciplines. His visionary strengths were a major factor in integrating strategies that made these companies successful. In 2004, Mr. Banuelos administered and funded a research and development company in renewable energy development working with engineers and scientists to reduce landfill footprints through steam injection at Miramar Landfill in San Diego, CA. His work continued with N-TEK Energy and engineers from the University of Utah on a proprietary design converting syngas into a liquid fuel. A catalyst was designed to turn landfill gas to a liquid fuel, (DME), and other biofuels containing no sulfur. Mr. Banuelos continued with N-TEK Energy, with Alan Neves as the chief engineer on a proprietary downdraft gasification process for processing different waste streams. Ruben was also privileged to work on several highly advanced generator systems that were designed for military application with Dr. Marius Paul of Universal Power Systems, a retired chief scientist for the Department of Defense. He worked on applications known as the Hyperbaric Engine whose power output can reach up to 900 hp from a 3-liter engine, along with proven science that could increase the power output of a 10MW turbine to 6X additional output. Mr. Banuelos is working with scientists and engineers to deploy technology applications that are now ready for market. His experience in this field of renewable energy will bring benefits to the growth of GreenTek as a renewable energy company.

Sean Brizendine

Job Titles:
  • Blockchain Expert / Growth Hacker
Biography Sean has more than eight years of experience researching Bitcoin and Blockchain technology Sean was rated 5+ POD (Proof of Developer) by Crypto Asian in 2014 and is a Certified IIB Council Blockchain Professional and EC Council University Lecturer who covers Blockchain in their Cyber Talk Webinar Series. He is an ICO Bench Expert and has been involved in over 40 Blockchain related projects over the years and has advised some of the most successful token sales in blockchain history such as the historic $52 Million TraDove Project ICO. Sean was interviewed in August 2018 at NASDAQ by former Bloomberg anchor Jane King regarding Imigize, the highly advanced blockchain application that allows for the creation of 3D anthropometric images to be made with smart phones in order to obtain the correct size of shoes when ordering online. He is a former Patron Growth Hacker.

SHAW DOGAN

Job Titles:
  • VP of Business Development, Europe

SONIA COOPWOOD - Founder, VP

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Vice President
Biography Sonia Coopwood is an accomplished, award-winning sales and marketing professional who specializes in strategic leadership, sales/marketing optimization, revenue growth and cross-team collaboration. Sonia began her career in the environmental engineering industry and previously worked for Ramos Oil, an oil and natural gas company. Sonia is a natural leader and inspires innovation and growth in the teams she leads. She pioneered her own marketing consulting firm which launched her into marketing consulting assignments and eventually led her to become the National Sales Manager for an international food manufacturer. After several years of traveling throughout the United States expanding her sales and marketing horizons, she accepted a position at Rudolph and Sletten, Inc., a pace setter in the commercial construction industry. Sonia has held several senior level positions within multibillion-dollar construction firms throughout the US. Sonia's experience in both entrepreneurial and marketing sales gives her a unique set of skills that makes her more than qualified to address and resolve any sales and marketing concerns that GreenTek may face. Along with CEO Brian Figueroa, Sonia graduated from the Anthony Robbins Organization and its Unleash the Power Within (UPW) Fire Walker Program.

Terry Shiraishi

Job Titles:
  • Director of Business Development, Tokyo, Japan
Biography Mr. Shiraishi has more than 25 years of hands on experience in the advertising industry and became the Creative Director for NBC Universal Japan. After his involvement with global projects he held a management position within a major advertising agency and worked with companies such as Beacon Communications, Grew Worldwide, and McCann Healthcare Worldwide. At the New York Festival he was awarded the Asia Pacific (ADFEST) and Dentsu Advertisement prize (PROMAX). Prior to his career in the advertising industry he was the CCO and COO of two tech companies and managed all international affairs. Currently, Terry manages his own Blockchain marketing agency, White Ray Co., LTD.