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Our Management

Thomas M. Rickards IV, President : trickards@energytele.com

Mr. Rickards has more than twenty-five years experience in the research, development, and exploitation of state-of-the-art manufacturing and technology-related intellectual property. Mr. Rickards was educated at Mercer University in Macon, GA, and after managing the physical testing section of Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory in Miami, Florida for ten years, independently applied his engineering experience in hundreds of major manufacturing plants around the world. He founded The Energy Corp. in 1993, which became Energy Telecom, Inc. in 2004. Mr. Rickards has traveled worldwide, designing and implementing several types of process control equipment/systems.

Among his numerous credits, Mr. Rickards is the original designer of several high speed, intelligent continuous-web control systems, and, industrial information transfer systems. As president of Energy Telecom, Mr. Rickards has produced original-design electro-pneumatic and electro-mechanical materials handling machines, and is the inventor of record on numerous patents in the United States and other countries.

Mr. Rickards is a member of the GAVI Alliance, a global health alliance, a member of the Chief Executive Officer group, and a member of the Chairmen and Chairwomen of the Board group.