Brian T. Cunningham

Director/CEO

Brian Cunningham has a life-time of experience in science, marketing, education and entrepreneurship. He received his undergraduate degree from St. Francis University in Pennsylvania and an honorary doctorate from the same institution for his Humanitarian efforts on behalf of victims of poverty in 1994. After serving on submarines in the U. S. Navy, he went to the Naval Ordinance Laboratory as a physicist. After several years at NOL, he went to NASA-Goddard, again, as a physicist and worked in the U.S. Space Program which was dedicated, at that time to land man on the moon. In 1969 he founded Computer Entry Systems Corporation (CES) which eventually employed over 1,000 people and became a publicly traded Company on the NASDQ. CES delivered an average of 34X their investment to founding shareholders and recorded 16 consecutive years of increasing profits under his leadership. He retired as CES’s Chairman and CEO in 1989 when Computer Entry was sold to another Public Company for over $40 milion. Two years later, he founded Entrepreneurial Advocates, Inc. (EAI). The mission of EAI was, and is, to work with a variety of start-up companies and help them avoid the many mistakes that Dr. Cunningham says he made during his entrepreneurial journey. As an IRS qualified extension of EAI, he founded a non-profit called the Entrepreneurial Partnership of Greater Washington. What is also germane to the proposed project is, first, that EPGW has developed a Slow Sand Filter (SSF) system called Quencher, which will be used in the present application, where applicable, to substantially reduce the bacteria content of the out flow of desalinated water. In addition to simple sand filtering, Quencher is designed as a slow-filtering system designed for long-term filtering of homes based on a bio-chemical process that is in wide-spread use in Germany.