Gerald Simmons is a seasoned investor and serial entrepreneur. He was an early backer and investor in Dr. Jonas Salk’s (discovered the Polio Vaccine) start-up company, Immune Response; a company founded to find a cure for the HIV virus. Over the years, Mr. Simmons has been instrumental in numerous start-ups, from inception to IPO and/or sale, including Data Pac Systems and Stamps.Com. Mr. Simmons was also co-founder and a board director of Tri Alpha Energy (TAE Technologies) the first private fusion company in the world.
More recently Mr. Simmons was President of MOS International, a high-tech company that developed and marketed sophisticated hardware and software, and multi-user/multi-tasking computer systems for commercial and government applications. As President of MOS, Mr. Simmons had full accountability for profit and loss, and performed management functions for all facets of the business, including manufacturing, product development, vendor relations, corporate direction, finance, policies, and procedures, as well as marketing functions.
Several of the other companies Mr. Simmons managed or consulted for are IBM, Inertial Propulsion Systems, Microvault, U.S.P.S, Velocity, Docexchange, Tritek Technology, Micro General Corp., Sony Corp., and Hewlett Packard.
Mr. Simmons is also a US Navy veteran.
Dr Mihir Worah is a physicist, entrepreneur, and quantitative finance expert. Dr. Worah holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago where he studied the fundamental interactions of elementary particles. Following his doctorate, he spent several years as a postdoctoral research associate at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and the University of California, Berkeley where his research focused on understanding the differences between matter and anti-matter. He is the author of numerous scientific publications.
He then moved to PIMCO, a 1.5 trillion-dollar asset manager where he was a Managing Director and the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) for Asset Allocation and Real Return. He was a member of the Global Investment Committee as well as the Global Executive Committee. He personally managed portfolios worth over 150 billion dollars and oversaw all portfolio management for the U.S. as well as quantitative analytics globally. While at PIMCO he started and managed PCAF (PIMCO Commodity Alpha Fund), a 2.5-billion-dollar market neutral hedge fund and co-authored the book Intelligent Commodity Indexing.
He is currently chair of the Advisory Council for the Physical Sciences Division at the University of Chicago and a member of the executive board of Pratham USA, an education focused NGO. Previously, he has been an advisor to the US government as a member of TBAC (the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee) and FIMSAC (the Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee). His wife and he support various initiatives related to science, education, the environment, and music.
Dr. Hafiz Rahman first started exploring Z-Pinches and their potential for nuclear fusion with Prof. Norman Rostoker at the University of California, Irvine in the 1980s. His insights into the possibility of staging a Z Pinch to stabilize it for long enough to initiate nuclear fusion led him to co-found MIFTI with the goal of producing cheap and abundant energy.
He has over three decades of experience in the field of fusion-energy and space physics research. Uniquely, his research spans all three areas of experiment, theory, and computational physics. His areas of particular emphasis in his research have been: dense Z pinches for fusion, laboratory simulation of space plasma structures, and propagation of neutralized plasma beams.
Dr. Rahman held research appointments at the Universities of California, Irvine and Riverside where he was director of the Space Simulation Laboratory at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) from 1986-2000. He served as principal investigator on staged Z-pinch research conducted as a joint venture between Universities of California Riverside and Irvine. In addition, he was the principal investigator on various projects funded by NASA, NSF, US Air Force, DOE and NRL.
Dr. Rahman holds a B. Sc. from Punjab University and an M. Sc., M. Phil from Quaid-i-Azam University Pakistan. In 1983 he earned his Ph.D. in physics from Ruher University Bochum and Quaid-i-Azam University under the DAAD scholarship program. Dr. Rahman has published over 100 papers in archival journals and books.
Mohammad Arshad brings over two decades of global business leadership, innovation, and execution across technology, manufacturing, and high-volume retail supply chains. Prior to his work with MIFTI, Arshad founded and led a technology transfer company that partnered with leading-edge firms to commercialize breakthrough innovations. He also owned and operated a successful design and manufacturing firm that developed and supplied award-winning consumer products to major U.S. retailers including Macy’s, Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, and Walmart, achieving hundreds of millions of dollars in sales and earning multiple industry accolades.
His core strengths lie in strategic planning, operational scalability, and managing complex global supply chains with a proven track record of bringing new technologies to market, building lasting partnerships, and leading organizations from startup through growth and profitability.
Arshad holds an MBA in International Business from Florida International University and an MBA with Distinction in Management Information Systems from Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad.
Dr. Hafiz Rahman first started exploring Z-Pinches and their potential for nuclear fusion with Prof. Norman Rostoker at the University of California, Irvine in the 1980s. His insights into the possibility of staging a Z Pinch to stabilize it for long enough to initiate nuclear fusion led him to co-found MIFTI with the goal of producing cheap and abundant energy.
He has over three decades of experience in the field of fusion-energy and space physics research. Uniquely, his research spans all three areas of experiment, theory, and computational physics. His areas of particular emphasis in his research have been: dense Z pinches for fusion, laboratory simulation of space plasma structures, and propagation of neutralized plasma beams.
Dr. Rahman held research appointments at the Universities of California, Irvine and Riverside where he was director of the Space Simulation Laboratory at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) from 1986-2000. He served as principal investigator on staged Z-pinch research conducted as a joint venture between Universities of California Riverside and Irvine. In addition, he was the principal investigator on various projects funded by NASA, NSF, US Air Force, DOE and NRL.
Dr. Rahman holds a B. Sc. from Punjab University and an M. Sc., M. Phil from Quaid-i-Azam University Pakistan. In 1983 he earned his Ph.D. in physics from Ruher University Bochum and Quaid-i-Azam University under the DAAD scholarship program. Dr. Rahman has published over 100 papers in archival journals and books.
Emil Ruskov is a Vice President of R & D at Magneto-Inertial Fusion Technologies, Inc. He brings three decades of research experience in various fusion energy technologies. In the nineties he participated in the breakthrough D-T fusion experiments on the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) in the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) where he measured 14 MeV neutrons and studied beam-ion confinement both experimentally and with computer codes modeling. He also participated in multiple experiments on the NSTX spherical tokamak, PPPL, and on the DIII-D tokamak, General Atomics, again with a focus on fast-ion confinement. Subsequently, Emil joined Tri Alpha Energy Inc. where he managed multiple domestic and international collaborations, developed neutron diagnostics and data acquisition systems, and led plasma experiments and their analysis. He specified the neutral beam requirements for the first large FRC machine, called C-2, and initiated their procurement from the Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Rusia. These beams were recently credited for maintaining record long and hot FRC plasmas.
In 2016 Emil joined Magneto-Inertial Fusion Technologies, Inc. where he plans and executes experiments at off-site facilities, analyzes their data and uses radiation-MHD code simulations to decipher the intricacies of the Staged Z-pinch plasmas. He has assembled and runs a suite of neutron yield and time of flight detectors which provide essential insight into the fusion performance of these plasmas. As a PI and co-PI he has led several successful INFUSE projects with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Rochester University and Caltech. Emil has published over 100 papers in peer reviewed and archival journals. Since 2022 he is a visiting scholar at the UCSD Center for Energy Research, Jacobs School of Engineering.
Emil earned his PhD in plasma physics from the University of California, Irvine, MSc in technical physics from the University of Belgrade, Serbia and BSc in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Cyril and Methodius, Macedonia.
Paul Ney has worked in the fields of theoretical and computational plasma physics for over 30 years. He has authored and co-authored a number of papers that have been published in peer reviewed journals. He has also done original scientific research that has been presented at national and international conferences. In addition, he has worked as a Dynamics and Systems Engineer for 11 years. In that capacity he modified and developed computer simulations designed to analyze missile air frame performance. For 17 years, he taught physics at the college and university level.
He served as chair of the physics department at Mount San Jacinto College, Menifee campus.
Dr. Roshan Mammen Abraham is a physicist specializing in high energy physics, numerical simulation, and computational physics. He completed his postdoctoral research at the University of California, Irvine, and was a member of the FASER experiment at CERN, where he developed simulation tools and applied advanced statistical methods to large-scale experimental datasets. His doctoral work at Oklahoma State University focused on Monte Carlo simulations on high-performance computing clusters and deep neural network classification of high-dimensional data. At the Indian Institute of Science, he pioneered India's first linear Paul trap experiment for charged-particle confinement. Dr. Abraham holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Oklahoma State University (2023), an M.S. in Physics from Case Western Reserve University, and a B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from NIT Calicut.
Dr. David Reisman is a consulting scientist at MIFTI, focusing on the development of a 12-MA pulsed power driver. David received his Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, Davis. Most recently, David has worked at Energetic Technology, developing a Z-pinch based EUV source for the semiconductor industry. Previously, David worked at Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories in high-energy-density physics (HEDP).
Rosario Marin is an entrepreneur, an international public speaker, author, and serves as advisor to two corporations in Australia and Mexico.
She served in Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s cabinet as Secretary of the State and Consumer Services Agency where she oversaw procurement of nearly $9 billion worth of goods and services, the management and development of the 1,600+ state’s real estate properties, oversight of the nation’s largest state employee pension funds CAL STRS and CAL PERS, the collection of state taxes over $104 billion dollars – the equivalent of the GDP of the eighth largest global economy, and programs managing a state workforce of more than 250,000 people, the state’s civil rights enforcement, consumer protection, and the licensing of 2.4 million Californians in more than 255 different professions.
Appointed by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Ms. Marin served as the 41st Treasurer of the United States.
As Chairwoman of the California Integrated Waste Management Board from 2004 to 2006, Ms. Marin presided over the successful attainment of California’s 50 percent recycling mandate.
In addition, Ms. Marin served as elected councilmember and Mayor of the City of Huntington Park.
Ms. Marin has held numerous leadership positions with nonprofit boards. Currently she is a member of the CSULA Foundation Board and formerly served for nine years in the Special Olympics International Board of Directors.
For her contributions, she has been awarded countless recognitions including four Honorary Doctorate degrees.
