About the Team

Daniel Geery – Inventor/ Educator

EDUCATION: B.S. Biology, Adelphi University, N.Y., 1971.
M.S., Education/ Reading, Long Island University, N.Y. 1973.
BACKGROUND: Daniel Geery has worked with alternate energy issues for several decades. He designed and developed an earth-sheltered solar greenhouse and wrote a book on it, built an earth-sheltered solar-powered home and lived off the grid for 15 years. He has a patented design for ultra-efficient airships and built over 500 working models. He has a patented design for underwater gliding vehicles, presently being sold as a water toy worldwide; this design involved making over 5,000 working models, and was the first known translation of Archimedes’ principles into lateral upward gliding motion. Geery has been a science teacher in public education for twenty years, and recently taught flying and Mars exploration classes at the Utah University Museum of Natural History.

Spencer Deputy – Director of Sales and Marketing

Spencer graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship from the University of Utah in April 2008. He has over 12 years experience in sales and technology-related products. At Utility Trailer Sales of Utah, he has been involved in new and used equipment sales as well as managing parts accounts for a myriad of truck and trailer shops. As a traveling salesperson for Avalon, Inc. he presented complex software to business owners and performed onsite training for implementation. Spencer helped build, expand and manage a call center for Avalon’s subsidiary companies. This involved managing teams for customer service, tech support and phone sales.

Spencer is an avid RC modeler and hands-on engineer with experience in gas and electric, fixed wing and rotary aircraft. He is also a published author on advanced glider flying techniques, and has set world records in dynamic soaring. With over 15 years experience in building strong, lightweight structures, and has a solid grasp of the physics and geometries of building with advanced materials and incorporating sophisticated electronics into aviation and other RC vehicles.