David McBay
Chairman/C.T.O/Founder/Inventor
David McBay is an American energy innovator who lives in Palo Alto California and serves as Chairman of the Board of American GeoPower LLC. Mr McBay invented Molten Salt Geothermal Energy Technology. David McBay holds fifteen granted US patents and five international granted patents wrapped around this truly transformative new clean energy system.
David works diligently to fulfill his personal dream of bringing clean, affordable, and abundant energy to all of the peoples of the world knowing that by achieving this lofty goal helps solve most of societies serious pressing problems. With the signing of their first international licensing agreement with a major EV battery manufacture to supply the needed power for their Giga factory American GeoPower LLC is well on the way to implementation of their planet saving process.
David McBay’s main skill set is in complex problem solving and out of the box creative thinking. On David’s very limited personal time off he loves extreme downhill ski racing and trail riding Arabian horses.
David has been an inventor and successful entrepreneur for over 40 years. He has addressed one of the world’s most perplexing problems by creating the Molten Salt Closed-Loop Geothermal Energy Collection System among other related technology including Geothermal Pyrolysis and Hydrothermal Spallation Drilling. He continues developing more solutions and patents.
David is currently based in Palo Alto, California.
Thomas McBay
C.E.O./President
Thomas has a varied & vast background in commercial & residential real estate development, contract law, commercial law, marketing, leveraged financing, & all aspects of various business operations. He has also been running a specialty coffee roasting company for over 30 years.
Thomas is an accomplished chef & professional baker in addition to being a specialty coffee Roast Master.
Thomas attended Cabrillo college after graduating from high school. He was planning on continuing his studies & becoming a real estate attorney but he got side tracked by his Japanese wife & moved to Japan to raise a family in 1990.
He is probably the first foreigner to live in the city of Nakatsugawa (pop. about 80,000) in the history of Nakatsugawa. This may be one of the reasons that he became an English conversation teacher by default. In his early days of teaching English he taught classes with upwards of 50 students per class in such large companies as Richoh Emmex, Mitsubishi Electric, many local companies in Nakatsugawa, the city of Nakatsugawa,academic seminars etc. Some years ago he retired from teaching large group lessons to the privacy of independent small group lessons.
His fundamental philosophy in regards to Japanese English speakers is that Japanese English students have spent far too many years studying English and taking English tests and far too little time actually trying to speak in English. He believes absolutely that for a person to able to speak in English that they need to start listening & speaking in English, no matter how low or advanced that level may be.
Thomas is a people person. He loves to meet new people and explore about who they are and what they do. He loves to talk but more importantly he forces himself to listen so that he can understand better how to find common ground and bridge the many generational, ideological and cultural gaps that separate us all. You might say that he is an English conversationalist philosopher of sorts.
Thomas & his wife raised their two children bilingually in Nakatsugawa and now their boys are both successfully and independently living in California.
Thomas’ interests are varied and many. Especially he enjoys spending his free time just walking around and investigating everything and anything.
He is currently based in Nakatsugawa, Japan.
Wildani Putra
C.O.O.
Wildani Putra is Chief Operating Officer (C.O.O) of American GeoPower, leading the company that encompasses all of operational business functions, strategic, organizational and administrative leadership and initiatives as well as full control for the overall efficiency and scaling of the business such as compiling the company financial reports, implementing business strategies and optimizing the organisation’s operational capabilities. As part of the responsibilities, Wildani is also involved in long-term planning and strategy for the organization as a whole.
Wildani holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering from Syiah Kuala University (USK) and a Bachelor Degree in English Education from Islamic University (UIN) in Indonesia at the same study period. He was awarded national government scholarship for university student from the first year until graduated for his consistency in being among the highest-grade point average (GPA) rank of engineering students in his faculty.
Later, he was awarded as the best trainee of staff development program at Indonesia Caterpillar Dealership (TrakindoCAT) during his early professional career as petroleum application engineer before becoming Critical Core Facility Engineer at Smartfren Telecom–one of the largest telecommunication companies in Indonesia. Previously, Wildani also worked as Senior Business Development Officer specialized in Oil & Gas, Mining and Renewable Energy at Regional State-owned Enterprise in Aceh, Indonesia. In this role, he focused on investments in early-stage energy companies and venture capital funds.
From those companies, he gained extensive experiences in mechanical and electrical application, engineering, project management and operation and maintenance. Wildani is also an independent English teacher at his own English course namely English Discovery Channel (EDC) that he established in 2019. Wildani was once awarded as best motivator in teaching and learning English academy.
Wildani is an energic and active drive in the workplace and utilizes his greatly-endless spirit and motivation in the team to reach the company’s ultimate goals. Wildani is inspired by his wife to change the world by helping others. In his leisure time, Wildani likes to travel, enjoy naturally-scenic view and swim at the beach with his daughter. Wildani currently lives in Aceh Province, Indonesia.
He is currently based in Aceh, Indonesia.
Iffah Fadilah
C.D.O.
Iffah Fadilah is Chief Donation Officer (C.D.O) of American GeoPower, overseeing the planning, development and execution of the organization’s donation and philanthropy initiatives as well as leading superb in-house marketing team. Specifically, Iffah specializes in managing all marketing operations, assessing and improving existing initiatives, and devising new strategies to increase American GeoPower`s philanthropic initiatiatives.
Iffah holds a bachelor degree in communication studies as a Cum Laude predicate graduate from Syiah Kuala University (USK) in Indonesia. Iffah started her career as officer in one of the largest state-owned banking enterprises in Indonesia.
Iffah is a very friendly and welcome individual in the team so she is really good at building positive environment towards internal members and external partners. She is also very active at supporting orphans’ house and the poor around her country. In spare time, Iffah likes jogging and travelling with her family. Trying new recipe for cooking is her best too. Iffah currently lives in Aceh Province, Indonesia.
Gabriel Cisneros
Lead Patent Agent
Gabriel Cisneros is the Lead Patent Agent for American GeoPower (AGP). He holds Degrees in Law (JD) from the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder, Colorado and Philosophy (Bachelor) from the University of California at San Diego. He worked briefly with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Attorney General for the State of Colorado in their Natural Resource Division. He passed the California Bar (#167906) in 1994 and began a private practice in San Francisco focusing on Immigration Defense at the EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review). His clients were primarily Mexicans and Central Americans seeking to remain in the United States for humanitarian reasons (Asylum and Cancellation of Removal). During his seven years of practice Gabriel was able to work with a range of Immigration Practitioners and also for the Immigration Legal Defense Fund (ILRC) advising community nonprofits on Immigration Law matters.
Gabriel made a life decision in 2001 to move abroad, first to Barcelona, Spain for five years, then to Argentina for two and eventually to Ecuador for five. He now lives primarily in Indonesia, Bali. He was able to earn a living working as a freelance translator, real estate agent, and software startup app design assistant for Freshr, Inc. (The app was designed to source local food and set up virtual online markets in the Bay Area – San Francisco, CA).
Gabriel Joined AGP in May of 2022 as a patent agent to help move AGP technology into the geothermal market. He made a successful pitch for a first interview with a major Metal company in Europe for seed funding. He continues to design and submit funding proposals to private and public entities. He has benefited from participating in hundreds of hours of conversations with some of the most cutting-edge geothermal companies in Canada, Spain, Italy, Germany and the United States, including with our own key research institutes: NREL (National Renewable Energy Labs) and CATF (Clean Air Task Force).
Gabriel is dedicated to making AGP technology a key component in the general adoption of geothermal energy. His primary goal continues to be the funding, locating and execution of a Proof-of-Concept Demonstration. To that end he is currently spearheading an Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) funding request from the DOE.
Gabriel is currently based in San Francisco, California.
How American Geopower Began
David McBay has been keenly interested in the green energy industry for many many years. In 2011, he was in the Palo Alto public library researching which energy systems were making the most progress battling climate change.
Through his research, he found that the solar industry was using molten salts to store heat and potentially compete with nuclear and coal in the area of providing baseload energy (continuous, 24/7 energy).
He also investigated the process of Enhanced Geothermal Energy (EGS) which uses a fracking-based system to release and extract heat in the form of steam. He researched whether anyone was using better transfer fluids than hot water or steam. And he discovered that no one before had used molten salts as a heat transfer fluid for geothermal energy extraction.
Since the day of his realization in 2011 David has worked relentlessly to find better ways to access, harvest, store, and distribute geothermal energy. He has had indispensable help from world famous international patent law firm of Perkins Coie in filing and getting granted patent after patent after patent developed along the way.