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.

Mr. Goldfarb has over 30 years corporate experience, including more than 20 years in information technology. He began his career with IBM as a financial specialist in an enterprise systems group focused on the IT solutions in the oil industry.

Over a more than 33-year career span he has worked in marketing, operations and finance with both large and small organizations including 10 years with a subsidiary of Fujitsu both at headquarters and European operations. For most of the past 20 years he has specialized in new venture and early stage organizations. From 1998 until 2002 Mr. Goldfarb was Managing Director of WSI Europe, a division of the Weather Channel turning long time loss making divisions to profitability.

From June 2002 to December 2007, Mr. Goldfarb served on the Board of Directors of MOWIS GmbH, an Austrian-based Weather Technology Media company. He also served as their interim Chief Financial Officer and led the management team in securing seed capital to fund growth. MOWIS was acquired as a strategic new media portal in 2007 by one of Europe’s largest media groups. From February 2008 through October 2012 Mr. Goldfarb served as Chief Financial Officer of Ecosphere Technologies, Inc. where he was instrumental in guiding the Company through its growth from $0.3 million in annual revenues in 2008 to more than $21 million in annual revenues in 2011. Currently, Mr. Goldfarb serves as President and Chief Financial Officer of ISA.

Mr. Goldfarb became a director of ISA in April 2010 and in 2012 was appointed as an executive officer charged with rebuilding the company. Mr. Goldfarb also currently serves as a director of Gelstat Corporation, a small public company engaged in the development, manufacturing and marketing of homeopathic and natural supplements. Mr. Goldfarb has a degree in Finance from Rutgers University in Newark, NJ.

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.