BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Joel A. Garbon
President
Joel Garbon received a B.S in Applied Science from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio in 1982, and has worked his entire professional career as a consultant to the paper, chemical, and water treatment industries. He has consulted with dozens of large and small companies in North and South America. Joel is widely regarded as a speaker and educator within these industries, and regularly instructs classes of engineers.

Specific to the energy field, Joel has assisted the networking and business efforts of several new energy researchers. He has relationships with many organizations which promote responsible stewardship of earth's resources and which support progressive sustainable technologies for advancement of human civilization. He has been a featured speaker on numerous television and radio programs and at conferences and civic gatherings, making the appeal for a concurrent evolution in human consciousness and energy technology to address our pressing global challenges.

In 2009, Joel collaborated with NEM board member Jeane Manning to deliver the award-winning book, Breakthrough Power. He is also the author of an historic legislative draft titled "Energy Innovation Act of 2007" intended for introduction as a Congressional bill in early 2007. The legislation's provision call for urgent and serious federal support for research and development of breakthrough energy technologies. 

Sterling D. Allan
Founder and Executive Director of PES Network Inc. and New Energy Congress

Sterling has been the primary driving force behind FreeEnergyNews.com, PureEnergySystems.com, PESWiki.com, PESN.com and, more recently, NewEnergyCongress.org and FreeEnergyVideo.com.

Sterling is the founder of over a dozen organizations whose functions range from preparedness and alternative energy development and promotion to defining, teaching and researching better ways to live as a society. He has proven experience in creating, managing and sustaining organizations, as well as in using web sites as a way to teach, publish and disseminate information. With a long interest in alternative energy systems, he has established a reputation for maintaining a news service and an extensive directory of energy solutions that are friendly to the environment.

Terry Sisson
Associate Director
Terry Sisson holds college degrees in Secondary Education and Electronics, with additional graduate coursework in Instructional Design and Electrical Engineering. He began teaching university electronics at 21 and, with a strong physics background, started and directed over 35 companies in a wide variety fields (the first lasted over 35 years). Terry has been an entrepreneur for the majority of his career, following his interests in high technology with strengths in sales and marketing.

In 1979, after living abroad (installing and maintaining New Zealand's first CAT scanner), he was introduced to his first over-unity device in Chicago. While trying to investigate the technology further, he learned that the State of Illinois shut down the inventor's business. One year later, the inventor died at an early age of an unexplainable heart attack; it took Terry 15 years to confirm the actual suppression involved.

For the past 25 years, he has continued analyzing hundreds of new energy devices, conducting experiments and visiting inventors in an attempt to locate technologies that everyone will be able to use.

Thomas Valone, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Thomas Valone, Ph.D. is the President of Integrity Research Institute and Editor of the well-respected Future Energy newsletter and Enews. He has authored 6 books and numerous scientific studies, articles and papers related to energy in all forms. He provides consultations on electrical product design and development, engineering testing, environmental and electromagnetic fields and energy, expert testimony and opinion, and meets regularly with congressional and senate leaders, briefing them on the latest energy developments. His views regarding energy-related matters have been featured on national media, including CNN.

In addition to his Ph.D. in General Engineering, Dr. Valone holds degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering. As a professor, he managed an Engineering department, taught courses, and designed physics and electronics curricula. He is the inventor of a number of high-tech instruments (many of which are still on the market today), directed R&D at Scott Aviation, and has done extensive work as a Patent Examiner. He was elected as Board member of the PTO Society in 1999.

Dr. Valone received the Marcel Vogel Service Award from the USPA, and several Certificates of Appreciation from the SUNYAB Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the American Physical Society (formerly), and is a Licensed Professional Engineer with the state of New York. Dr. Valone is also listed in the Who's Who of American Writers and Poets.