Board of Directors
Javier Acosta has extensive experience in operational and planning leadership roles, having worked with a large Fortune 20 company, as well as with much smaller companies. His leadership, vision, and team building efforts have produced process improvements while fostering strong ties with consumers, distribution channel partners, and organizations world-wide.
While at Duos Technologies Inc. Mr. Acosta as Vice President of Operations and later as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, he led a team of multi-disciplined professionals in the implementation, delivery, testing, installation, and maintenance of our turnkey intelligent technology systems and solutions throughout North America.
While at Organizacion Interamericana de Asesoria y Comercio (OIAC), as the Operations Director, he oversaw the installation of turnkey security systems in the banking and energy industries. He was also largely responsible for improving their capacity footprint and increasing operational efficiencies, while successfully integrating professional and operational resources.
While at Ford Motor Company, he served across various roles and international assignments providing global contributions to Ford’s industry leading multinational process improvement initiatives. As Production and Sales Planning and Distribution Manager he led the Production Program for a Region, the company's main governance process, driving budget, marketing and sales, material procurement and manufacturing planning activities.
Ms. Bell-Bucha is a multi-faceted writer, editor, educator, strategist and project manager. Her diverse background includes teaching at the college level, chairing executive forums on international issues and managing a wide variety of projects from concept to completion. In addition to sitting on the Board of Directors of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut since 2009 and most recently, the Orange County Arts Council Organizations Committee, Bell-Bucha has worked for Steve Alpert Productions; Veterans Advantage PBC, TownVibe Publications, Iona College, Petersen Publishing, KIII Publishing, Paramount Global (formerly Viacom) and Voice of America.
Ms. Kwong is a marketing strategy and tactics expert holding leadership positions in Duos Technologies, where she has developed its iconic marketing and communications program from the company’s initial start-up stage thru its recent uplisting to NASDAQ where she now oversees all corporate communications and investor relations. While previously at CT Miami/BLU she ran international operations including direct oversight of the company’s Asian offices and spearheaded the marketing, logistics, vendor management, and supply chain processes that allowed BLU products to be placed for retail sale in such marketplaces as Amazon and Walmart. Ms. Kwong is a graduate of the University of North Florida and is fluent in three languages and multiple dialects.
Mr. Fernandez is an entrepreneur in the food industry providing services across several continents and a motivator of clean energy research and development helping foster novel renewable energy technologies in the US, Canada, Mexico and Spain. His previous investment projects include merging multiple green energy sources into a modular generator to combine solar, hydraulic, eolic and aerolic generation to match resource availability through time and season.