David Macias

CEO/Chairman

Mr. Macias (58), is a 23-year Veteran of the Physical Energy and Commodities business, with extensive management training experience, owning Physical Trading Company Sunshine Energy & Commodities, Inc. (SEC). Positioned as a Trade Financier, Trader, and Supplier, Advises, Consults, and Markets Crude Oils and various Petroleum-Based products including Fuel Oil, Petcoke, Coal, and other Commodities worldwide. Our Business is in Trading Physical Bulk Cargos of Commodities. SEC is well-positioned in all aspects of Physical Commodities Global Trading in cargos. This includes access to Logistics of Bulk Vessels/Tankers and strategically located Storage Tank Facilities to Supply at various Refineries/Producers/Mills, and a Network of Qualified Institutional Buying Entities and End Users Globally. Through our long-established industry relationships, we Buy/Sell only directly from Owners and Producers of Products, and are registered and Trade with mostly Major Producers, Mines, Refineries, Steel Mills, and Cement Producers including several globally recognized Trading Firms, allowing for institutional pricing for wholesale distribution.

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Currently, through Affiliate Li3 Group, SEC will provide Project Financing Initiatives Worldwide, by Tokenizing Digital Asset-Backed Mining Real-World Assets (RWA) and other Commodities through its Proprietary Blockchain Technology and Peer-to-Peer Marketplace Platform, whereby Mr. Macias is its CEO and Founder. 

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Mr. Macias additionally has 11 years of Renewable Energy Project experience. Formerly was Chairman of the Board and CEO of Upower Group, Inc. as of May 2013. Upower is a Renewable Energy Developer of Solar Projects Internationally focused on building Utility-Scale Solar Plants through Power Purchasing Agreements (PPA's) with Governments or National Electric Companies Worldwide. Upower signed via Upower Honduras a PPA with The Empresa Nacional de Energía Eléctrica (ENEE), the Honduran Government owned Electric Company on January 2014 to develop what became Latin America's Largest Photovoltaic Solar Power Plant to date, funded by The World Bank as Project 8404 as Upower Honduras for $232mm and fully operational on Honduras' west coast city of Nacaome.

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From October 2011 to December 2014, Mr. Macias was Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance and a shareholder of Hydro Alternative Energy, Inc., a Florida corporation specializing in the development of Hydroelectric and Hydrokinetic power generation with a Patented Ocean Turbine named “Oceanus”.

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Mr. Macias also brings over 30 years of Wall Street financial experience. Credentials include a successful career managing over $400,000,000 in Assets Under Management in the Financial Markets for over 3,500 Clients. Multi-Million Dollar Private Capital Raises and participation in Bringing Public over 154 Publicly Traded Companies since 1987.  Mr. Macias was a registered and licensed brokerage Financial Advisor until 2013, retiring from the business as 75% Owner of a boutique investment bank and financial advisory brokerage firm Pacific Pearl Group and Pangaea Capital of Pasadena, CA and West Palm Beach, FL.. Mr. Macias began his career in 1987 at Lehman Brothers. Mr. Macias served in various capacities as a Senior Vice President (“SVP”) of several different FINRA member broker dealer firms, after receiving his Series 7 and 63 stock brokerage licenses. These included: Shearson Lehman Hutton, D.H. Blair & Co., GKN Securities, Gruntal & Co., and Sterling Financial Investment Group. In 1992, Mr. Macias was instrumental in the initial launch, creation, distribution, and capital raising efforts of the initial launch of the new financial instrument named a "SPAC" (Special-Purpose Acquisition Company).

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Special Interests and Education

Through the encouragement of his late Father, Israel Izzy Macias, a Master Electrician responsible for the joy of millions of people, spearheading the efforts for 30 plus years at Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall and its famous Christmas Tree Lighting. Mr. Macias was a recipient of the national 4-year full tuition Rockefeller Group Scholarship Program based on his academic achievements at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY. Mr. Macias then graduated from Brooklyn College, a City University of New York, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Business, Management, and Finance with a minor in Spanish in 1989. Mr. Macias is very active in various social and charitable activities with his Mother Irene Macias as his inspiration as 15-year metastasized cancer survivor, who unfortunately passed away as well in 2016, yet continues organizing Breast Cancer Awareness events, hosting Pink Ribbon Parties, and a major contributor to No Small Affair, a charitable organization in which he is active in arranging for and chaperoning underprivileged children to football, baseball, and basketball games with the Miami Dolphins, Florida Marlins, and Miami Heat respectively.

Felix Gross

President

Mr. Gross is a 35-year Veteran of the Physical Energy and Commodities business. Mr. Gross has extensive transactional experience, commencing in the opportunities that Perestroika, or its restructuring of the political and economic systems of the Soviet Union gave way, conducting Foreign Trade at the time with his brothers, by owning their own Global Physical Commodities Trading Company.

Mr. Gross has played a crucial role in the trade into various global economies, participating and organizing through his long-term relationships through the movement of physical commodities such as oil, natural gas, distillates, gold, precious stones, and several agricultural products since the 1980's. Mr. Gross executes with a deep understanding of the markets he operates in, including supply and demand dynamics, geopolitical factors, and price trends, thus identifying profitable opportunities with his "Know-How" and global reach. 

Jorge Aizcorbe

Executive Vice-President

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Mr. Aizcorbe, is a proven leader with 30 years as a Pioneer in the Solar Energy industry. Having worked as a Strategic Consultant, Investment Banker, and Investor, his divested set of experiences have provided the ability to fuse operational strategy and corporate finance to maximize value creation.

Formerly Managing Director at RedRock Energy Ventures, Inc..

Jorge has deployed several hundred Megawatts of successful utility scale projects to date, in addition to being Founder of Principal Solar, Inc.. Mr. Aizcorbe was former President of Upower, a renewable energy developer of Solar Projects Internationally focused on Utility-Scale Solar Plants.

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Mr. Aizcorbe recently raised capital for the largest lithium brine project in the USA.

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Mr. Aizcorbe is an Investment Banker for over 30 years. Worked at W.R. Grace & Co., one of the first true conglomerate corporations in the USA in Corporate Development and Merger & Acquisitions. Mr. Aizcorbe has structured numerous successful transactions for clients such as Madison Dearborn Partners, Bechtel Corporation, Chase Capital Partners, Scott’s Miracle Grow, Hunt Corporation, as their Investment Banker.

Mr. Aizcorbe and Family were instrumental in the Real Estate development of several Cities and Communities, including Wellington, FL (WPB) and Palm Beach Point.