// The Advisory Committee
Strategic counsel where it counts.
UET’s Senior Advisory Committee brings together experienced leaders who counsel our Board of Directors and executive team on the decisions that shape the company’s future. Serving in an independent advisory role, they lend strategic perspective on capital formation, partnerships, government and defense engagement, talent and recruiting, new market development, production maturity, and international expansion.
The committee’s real value is in what its members bring: operational experience earned over decades, relationships across industry and government, and a clear view of where markets and missions are heading. As UET scales from breakthrough technology to production at volume, their guidance helps us move with focus, engage the right partners, and build for the long term.
CEO, principal, and board director with 30+ years of experience across service, technology, and construction/engineering.
- Founded, built, and successfully exited three mission-focused enterprises across service, technology, and construction/engineering sectors.
- United States Naval Academy graduate and former Marine Corps Officer; MBA from the University of Maryland.
- Recently inducted into the Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Business Hall of Fame.
Physicist, author, and energy-technology strategist with 40+ years of experience spanning R&D, policy, and investment across the energy and digital infrastructure sectors.
- Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics; Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation; strategic partner at Montrose Ventures.
- Author of The Cloud Revolution and co-author of The Bottomless Well; technology columnist for City Journal, frequently published in Wall Street Journal.
- Former Chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies; experimental physicist and staffer in Reagan White House Science Office.
CEO, Principal & Board Director
Mark "Turk" Powell
Mark “Turk” Powell is a CEO, founder, principal, venture capitalist, and board director with more than 30 years of experience building, scaling, acquiring, investing in, and successfully exiting mission-focused companies across the technology, engineering, construction, and professional services sectors.
Throughout his 27-year tenure as Chief Executive Officer, the companies he led achieved a combined compound annual growth rate (CAGR) exceeding 40%, driven by disciplined execution, operational excellence, and strategic market positioning. Each business was ultimately acquired at above-market valuation multiples, reflecting the strength of their operations, leadership, and long-term value creation.
In addition to his operating leadership, Mr. Powell is a Co-Founder and Partner of Marlinspike Capital, a venture capital investment firm focused on identifying and supporting high-growth technology companies. His investment experience includes venture capital, private equity, special purpose vehicles (SPVs), capital formation, portfolio oversight, and strategic advisory roles. He has participated in numerous financings, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and exit transactions, providing investors and management teams with guidance on growth strategy, governance, valuation, and liquidity events.
Mr. Powell has extensive experience leading organizations through periods of rapid growth while overseeing strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, capital allocation, complex operations, information technology, governance, and organizational transformation. He has worked closely with executive leadership teams, boards of directors, investors, and government stakeholders to develop and execute growth strategies across both public and private sector markets.
A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Mr. Powell earned his MBA from the University of Maryland, where he was selected as the prestigious William F. Holin Scholar. He served as a United States Marine Corps officer and is a Service-Disabled Veteran.
In recognition of his entrepreneurial leadership and lasting contributions to the business community, Mr. Powell was inducted into the Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Business Hall of Fame.
Physicist, Author & Energy-Technology Strategist
Mark P. Mills
Physicist, author, and energy-technology strategist with 40+ years of experience spanning R&D, policy, and investment across the energy and digital infrastructure sectors.
Over four decades, Mark P. Mills has worked across every layer of the energy and technology landscape — from experimental physics and uranium mining to semiconductor R&D, White House science policy, and venture-backed startups that he took from lab to public market.
Mr. Mills currently serves as Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics and as a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He is a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and a Contributing Editor at City Journal. He also co-founded Montrose Lane, an energy-focused investment fund, and serves on the board of Atlas Energy Solutions [NYSE:AESI].
His early career included work as an experimental physicist and development engineer at Bell Northern Research (Canada’s Bell Labs) and at RCA’s David Sarnoff Research Center, where he earned multiple patents in fiber optics, microprocessors, and missile guidance systems. He later served as a staff consultant in the White House Office of Science and Technology under President Reagan and has since testified before Congress more than 50 times on energy and technology policy.
Mr. Mills is the author of several books, including The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s (2021), which reached #1 on Amazon’s Business Planning & Forecasting list, and The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (co-authored with Peter Huber), which Bill Gates called “the only book I’ve ever seen that really explains energy.” He has also authored over 100 publications and writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and USA Today.
Earlier, Mr. Mills served as Chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies, which he helped take public in 2007, and was an independent director of EYP Mission Critical, a leading data center power engineering firm. His PragerU videos on energy and tech have been viewed more than 15 million times. He holds a BSc Honours in Physics from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada.