NAKA INDUSTRIES - Key Persons
David Brice has an experienced senior executive with expertise in financial management, procurement, operations, project management, telecommunications management, environmental services, administration, human resources, personnel/manpower planning, policy/organizational development, total quality management, academic instructor, pilot and aviation management, international training and sales, cross-cultural and diversity management, and sports administration from recreational, NCAA to Olympic levels.
Jamiel Hampton is the Co-founder of NAKA Industries, LLC. His leadership has allowed NAKA to partner with Nakajima-san to bring the most efficient plastics to oil technology on the planet to market. Prior to NAKA Industries, while Hampton was in college he interned at "Southface Institute" where his passion for sustainability was first ignited. After college he ran a successful general contracting firm, Hampton Development Group LLC, which has overseen commercial and residential renovation as well as new construction projects. All projects implemented sustainable building materials and practices from solar (PV) to gray water capture and repurposed building materials. Under his leadership his company strived to bring sustainability into the everyday lives of all their clients. Hampton has received numerous honors and awards from varying publications and associations including Georgia Minority Business, Southeast Small Business Magazine, Atlanta Business Journal, and Georgia African American Chamber of Commerce. As CEO, Jamiel Hampton is responsible for providing strategic leadership for the Company by working with strategic partners and key internal management to establish long-range goals, strategies, plans, and policies.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Director of Engineering
Kiyoshi Nakajima, the inventor of NAKA's highly specialized pyrolysis technology, brings extensive engineering knowledge and production experience into NAKA. Nakajima has joined forces with NAKA to take his new modular 4th-generation pyrolysis systems to the world market, starting with the USA. Prior to joining NAKA, Nakajima spent seven years as the co-founder of Blest Japan where he invented and perfected their pyrolysis technology. Through Blest his technology was manufactured and sold throughout several markets around the world. Before Blest, Nakajima retired from Maruha Corporation Japan where he held positions as an Executive Cooperate Officer, a Navigation Officer and a Designer/Engineer for their large fishing vessels. He is a graduate of Tokyo University of Marine with a M.S. in Science & Technology.
Malcolm O. Ashley, past co-chair of the Environmental Concerns Coalition (ECC) of Milford, Connecticut, is an economist and systems engineer trained at Yale University (B.A. Economics / Political Science) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (M.Sc Economics '94) with over 25 years of applied expertise in facilitating sustainable and strategic regional, local, economic development, through research, development planning, business development and recruitment. He holds the distinction of becoming the first African American accepted for graduate study at the School of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology, with a focus on Systems Engineering in 1990.
His professional specialties include development of sustainable systems for Aquaculture & Aquaponics production; application of sustainable Energy Systems (Geothermal and Co-Generation) for business production and housing; Intermodal Hub Development for
Vertiflight and Rail (Maglev and Electric) systems; Technology Incubators; Data development Analysis; Input-Output (REMI) models and Econometric Forecasting (ARIMA). His professional background includes research for the U.S. Forest Service; U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region IV; U.S. Department of Treasury, Community Development Financial Institution Program (CDFI); U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA); and the Georgia Board of Regents, University System of Georgia. He has held academic-instructional positions for Economics & Entrepreneurship, University of Hartford; Georgia
Martin Farrell focuses on helping clients streamline and enhance their risk management insurance programs. He supports and enhances client organization's strategic business objectives by contractual analysis, loss analysis, loss control and industry trends in the insurance market. Martin serves clients in the hospitality, energy, and construction industries.
He has been in the insurance industry since 1975 and joined Alliant in 1992. Prior to Alliant, Martin served as an account executive at Arkwright where he was responsible for client advocacy, loss control, and underwriting. Martin earned a BS in Electro Mechanical Engineering at The City College of New York. He holds a producers license in New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin, Arizona, Florida and Kansas, with an Associate in Risk Management (ARM) designation.
Job Titles:
- Business Development Specialist
- Consultant
- Finance
Nevil Ede is a business development specialist, consultant and finance professional with a broad range of energy and applied materials interests. Currently President of Exotex Inc., an advanced material developer specializing in high performance Fiber Reinforced Composites (FRCs) for use in the oil. energy, construction. transportation and infrastructure industries.
Job Titles:
- Full Tenured Professor, Department Chair
Career includes teaching in Public School Systems, Junior College, and colleges and universities level. Dr. Hampton has been tenured at three institutions and was invited on Sabbatical to the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, West Africa, where she taught for three (3) years.
Dr. Hampton is a two-time Fulbright Hayes Scholarship participant, having traveled to Morocco & Tunisia, and then to Ghana, West Africa. She went to NSU as an Associate Professor, and has since been promoted to Full Professor and tenured within 4 years. She has been elected Department Chair by her Departmental colleagues in 2019 on a three-year renewable appointment.
Dr. Hampton has been a member of her Professional Organizations for the duration of her teaching career, and presents annually at both the national and international conferences.
Dr. Hampton works with NAKA leadership to assist in developing our environmental stewardship curriculum, as well as the youth curriculum for teaching and exposing children 5+ to the exciting world of sustainability and Upcycling.