Management Team

Over the past four years, the Company’s management team has solved very difficult engineering problems and has demonstrated that it has the skills necessary to develop the technology from a concept to a production unit. It has acquired deep functional skills in water fuel emulsions. More recently, we have enhanced the team with entrepreneurial, start-up and marketing experience. Our collective experience in starting new businesses and assembling the talent necessary for growth is a key asset of the Company. The team consists of:

  • Thomas G. David
    CEO and President

    Mr. David joined CavitroniX™ in March of 2010 and serves as its CEO and President. He was a co-founder, General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Operations at Avalon Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AVRX), now part of Clinical Data Inc. Before joining Avalon in 2000, Mr. David spent 20 years in high technology industries, including work in both government and private industry in international satellite, broadcast, cable and common carrier telecommunications.

  • Charles P. Lickson
    Executive Vice President of Operations

    Mr. Lickson is the Founder of the CavitroniX™ Corporation. He began working on the technology in 2006. During his thirty-five year career preceding CavitroniX™, Mr. Lickson had a law practice, where he was involved in an advisory capacity to a number of technology companies – both existing and start-up. He is the author of seven books, including Negotiation Basics, Ironing It Out: Seven Steps to Resolving Conflict, and Legal Guide for Small Business. He is co-author of a White Paper on Fuel Emulsions with Charles Markert, CavitroniX™’s CTO.

  • Charles Markert
    Chief Technical Officer and Senior Vice-President of Engineering

    Mr. Markert has been a civil engineer for 30 years with the US Naval Facilities Engineering Command. He was involved in all aspects of facility design of Navy and Marine Corps Bases around the world, as well as a leader/manager in the Engineering & Design department of the organization. He developed the product design, prototyping, testing, fabrication and installation of the CavitroniX™ E2C® water/fuel emulsion. He practiced for 34 years as a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Virginia. He is co-author of a White Paper on Fuel Emulsions with Charles Lickson, CavitroniX™’s EVP.

  • Lance I. Pelter
    Senior Vice President of Marketing

    Mr. Pelter joined CavitroniX™ in May of 2011. He has held leadership positions in Sales, Marketing and Finance in the information services and technology fields for General Electric and GXS, Inc (a business spun off by GE) over the past 36 years. Responsibilities have included management of large and geographically distributed sales and technical teams with full P&L ownership; global product line management, negotiation of major contracts, pricing of products and services; approval of special contracts; and managing relationships with leading industry consulting firms.