David W. Packer – CEO/President
David Packer has been an entrepreneur his entire life. In 1985, he developed one of the largest childrens entertainment companies in Los Angeles, California, and modeled it into a franchise. By 1991, he started selling units across America. By 1995, he had sold 10 units and shifted gears from franchising to manufacturing. He built relationships among American, Australian, and Indian companies to form AMED, Inc., a medical-device company. It joint ventured with Needle Technology, LLC, to release a needle technology across the globe with 65 patents. Later, Mr. Packer and Don Keeping of Australia combined efforts to manufacture and globally distribute a new flash-freezing bar technology. While David continued to build these manufacturing companies, he also expanded a production company over a six-year window. It created and still owns 16 intellectual properties, two of which were shot as TV pilots. David also partnered with Hollywood Video on a comedy titled Flash and Dash Movie Bash. In 2008, David placed all other business on hold to become a pioneer in the exciting new hydrogen-on-demand industry.
Brett A. Shisler, Chief Financial Officer
Brett joined HydroFuture as CFO to raise funds and manage the Company’s relationship with the capital markets. Brett’s background includes service as an executive at Quad-C Management, a middle-market private-equity firm, where he assessed investment opportunities in diverse sectors, including basic industrial, distribution, and consumer products, and such portfolio companies as Document Technologies, Inc., Max Media, and NuSil Technologies.
Earlier, Brett was an analyst at UBS Securities in both the Global Industrials Group, where he offered financial advice to companies in the building-products sector, and the Leveraged Finance Group, where he focused on a variety of debt-financing transactions and financial-sponsor acquisitions. Brett previously provided strategic guidance to Fortune 500 industrial firms while at Deloitte Consulting. Before working in finance and consulting, Brett promoted just-in-time delivery systems to General Electric’s clients and refined jet engines at Pratt & Whitney. He also served as a firefighter in both Brunswick and Troy, New York, and was an Emergency Medical Technician with the Chicago Fire Department. Brett holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.