OUR COMPANY

  Mr. Nicosia is one of those rare businessmen who combine top management skills with true entrepreneurship to inspire, challenge and motivate business partners. Mr. Nicosia is Chairman and CEO of Vivakor Inc. (VIVK). Prior to his role with Vivakor, Mr. Nicosia was founder and CEO of Dermacia, a Southern California-based skin care company, which produced consumer, prescription and OTC products distributed through plastic surgeons and dermatologists as well as through retail and other mass-marketing channels. He has also been a director and co-founder of Quantum Sphere, Inc., a producer of nanomaterials and related technologies (www.qsinano.com). Mr. Nicosia received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Pepperdine University.  Mr. Nicosia is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish.  

  Tyler Nelson is a CPA who began his career in Audit and Enterprise Risk Services at Deloitte & Touche. He worked with clients with assets of $100B+ and annual revenues of $15B+, and are considered some of the most respected financial institutions in the world. Mr. Nelson earned a Masters degree in Accountancy from the University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign, and a Bachelors degree in Economics with a minor in Business Management from Brigham Young University. Mr. Nelson also speaks Portuguese and Spanish, which assists with our Latin American acquisitions.  

  Dr. Khalid brings a host of accolades and accomplishments to the Company. He is the Founder and Chairman of the Qatar Cancer Society, and he has served as its Chairman since its inception in 1997. He has also served as Chairman of the Gulf Union Against Cancer since 2000. In addition to his work with the Qatar Cancer Society and the Gulf Union Against Cancer, Dr. Khalid also served as the Vice Chairman of the National Health Authority, which replaced the Ministry of Public Health in Qatar. Dr. Khalid graduated from Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, with a Masters of Health Care Administration. His emphasis is in both planning and budgeting. VVEG will call upon Dr. Khalid’s expertise and vast global experience as it further positions itself in the Energy sector abroad.  

  Mr. Garrett has over 30 years of professional experience in environmental construction, technology design and implementation and recycling and remediation of hydrocarbon contaminated materials both in the US and internationally. Mr. Garrett pioneered the use of Low Temperature Thermal Desorption units (LTTD) with his first entrepreneurial enterprise in 1987, and later created one of the first successful Indirect Thermal Recycling Plants. Mr. Garrett became the Chief Operating Officer for Ganco Environmental Construction, where he was responsible for international business development with global oil companies. Mr. Garrett was promoted to Chief Executive Officer of Ganco 1999 and catapulted Ganco into the international spotlight by creating partnerships in West Africa, successfully completing the first thermal remediation contract in West Africa. Mr. Garrett joined Remtech in 2002 and eventually helped grow the company to record annual profits. He purchased Remtech in late 2004 and eventually rolled Remtech into a Terra Sana merger with Cobit ltd, which later became MECO Environmental Services.  Mr. Garrett is currently COO of  Remediation and Recycling Technologies.  

 Customers have questions, you have answers. Display the most frequently asked questions, so everybody benefits. Joseph D. Munsey, RPL, is a Registered Professional Landman, having over 30 years of experience with a diverse land background from office to field involving oil/gas, rights of way and geothermal. Prior to joining Southern California Gas Company, he consulted to various independent Exploration & Production (E&P) and pipeline companies, including Hunt Oil Company, CNG [now Dominion Resources], ExxonMobil, Ormat, Inc., Shell Pipeline, Air Products and several public utilities. Mr. Munsey is Past President and current Director of the Los Angeles Association of Professional Landmen; Co-Chair of the West Coast Landmen’s Institute and a member of the American Association of Professional Landmen and International Right of Way Association. He sits on the board of a publicly traded mineral company and a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization