About Us

David Drake, Chief Engineer:

Mr. Drake served as a Member of the Board of Directors of the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) for 9 years, representing the City of Escondido.

He was Chairman of several key committees at the SDCWA, including Administration, Engineering, Desalination and the Emergency Storage public outreach committee. He also served as a member and the Chairman of the City of Escondido Planning Commission. Mr. Drake was appointed to the City of Escondido General Plan Task Force, the City Franchise Commission and several City water committees. Mr. Drake was elected to the Board of Directors of the Rincon Del Diablo Municipal Water District in 2006 and was re-elected in November of 2008.

Mr. Drake was a Member of the Technical Staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory with a focus on Synthetic Aperture Radar, the SEASAT oceanographic satellite and radar signal processing. While at JPL Mr. Drake received a 1st place national award from the EE Times for a signal correlator design. He was Manager of Engineering for Oak ADEC a division of Oak Industries which pioneered SCADA systems for military and commercial customers. He was co-inventor on cryptographic key management patents of Oak Industries . Mr. Drake was San Diego Software Unit Manager for Digital Equipment Corporation and twice won the Software Services Excellence Award and DEC 100 awards.

He was the CIO of Mitchell International in San Diego for four years and led a successful transition of IT systems from mainframe to UNIX operations, while retaining the value of 250,000 lines of legacy production code. He provided consulting services to SAIC in support of a major contract with Kaiser Permanente and was hired on to assist in launching Internet based services for ANX Ebusiness. He designed, developed and deployed a complete X12 EDI translation system called ANX-EDI-One which dramatically lowered EDI costs for clients and supported a legacy connection to Ford Motor Company. Mr. Drake served as VP of Engineering of PointSource Technologies and developed two patents for unique methods of light scattering detection. Mr. Drake was a co-founder of The LXT Group which provided EPA mandated Vulnerability Assessments to Southern California water agencies.

He holds a BSEE from the California Institute of Technology. He has 5 patents and has several pending. His expertise includes radar, optics, signal processing, seismic systems, communications, information systems and system integration. He has held government clearances and resides in Escondido, CA. During the energy crisis of 2000 he proposed and drove an addition to the General Plan of Escondido to focus the City on the use of Renewable Energy. Mr. Drake was the 2004-2006 President of InfraGard San Diego, which is closely aligned with antiterrorism efforts of the FBI. He holds an Amateur Extra radio license as AC6OA.

Dr. Gregory Quist, Chief Scientist:

Greg Quist has been working in technical fields of interest to the water industry since 1980, when he began research on the real-time detection of microorganisms in water using laser light scattering. This line of research led Quist to several related patents and technical papers, and ultimately, as a response to the water quality disaster in Milwaukee in 1993 in which 400,000 residents became ill and more than 100 died as a result of drinking water contaminated with Cryptosporidium, the founding of a company to develop solutions based on continuous real-time detection of pathogens in water. That company, PointSource Technologies, developed and fielded a unique pathogen detection system that was used, for example, in a security-related deployment to monitor the influent drinking water at the 2003 Super Bowl in San Diego. In addition, Quist was the principal investigator on a related research project for the American Water Works Association Research Foundation in conjunction with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, "Evaluation of a Real-Time Online Monitoring Method for Cryptosporidium" published in 2004.

Quist has spent his professional career applying effective and innovative methods of solving difficult and market-driven problems spanning a wide variety of technologies, including electromagnetic scattering, optics, applied mathematics, magnetic materials, wireless communications, engineered materials, complex system integration, and real-time remote monitoring systems. As one example, Dr. Quist developed an innovative remote wireless management system used for the control of park and ballpark lighting that was spun off to Musco Sports Lighting and now operates as ControlLink^® in Musco's product line. In addition, as part of The LXT Group, he performed EPA-mandated Vulnerability Assessments for California water utilities.

Quist has served on the Rincon del Diablo Metropolitan Water District Board of Directors for the past 16 years and as a Director on San Diego County Water Authority Board for the past 10 years. He has worked as a technologist, manager and executive at Alcoa, McDonnell-Douglas, SAIC and has founded and successfully spun off several high technology start-up companies. He holds seven patents and has several pending. Dr. Quist received his undergraduate degree in astronomy and physics with a minor concentration in economics from Yale College and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has held top-level government clearances and currently resides in Escondido, CA.

Tim DeMarco, Product Integration and Sales:

Tim DeMarco joined Hadronex in November 2006 to lead the product introduction and sales strategy for the SmartCover^® product. With over 26 years of international experience, Mr. DeMarco's primary areas of expertise are developing strategies for: international business development, product distribution, distributor/dealer contracts, and customer services. Mr. DeMarco has over 35 years of experience in the sales and service of high value technical capital equipment to the power generation and oil and gas energy industry. He has considerable experience in the power generation, CHP market.

Prior to joining Hadronex, Inc., Mr. DeMarco was a senior executive with Solar Turbines, Inc, a subsidiary of Caterpillar, Inc. At Solar he managed a $100 million worldwide dealer/packager program. He also led the international power generation business development effort. He has strong business experience in Europe, Japan, Middle East, China, Asia and Russia. Mr. DeMarco lived and worked overseas with his family for five years in Athens, Greece and Brussels, Belgium. He has traveled to over 55 countries.

Mr. DeMarco has been guest speaker and lecturer at the University of Phoenix, California Council for International Trade, San Diego World Trade Center, U.S. Department of Commerce, National District Export Council Conference, San Diego State University and the American Water Works Association International Conference. Mr. DeMarco is currently active in a leadership role in the San Diego international community. He is the 2006 Chair of the San Diego District Export Council, serving as Vice Chair in 2004 and 2005. He also holds national office as a member of the District Export Council National Steering Committee. Mr. DeMarco is a current member of the Board of Directors of the San Diego World Trade Center. He served as Chair of the SDWTC in 1999 and 2000. He was appointed to the San Diego Regional Economic Task Force by the San Diego County Supervisory Board.

Mr. DeMarco received his B.S. from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University, with emphasis in Mechanical Engineering. He has taken Advanced Management courses from the Center for Creative Leadership and at Thunderbird's American Graduate School of International Management.