After attending Chapman College in Orange, California, Gorka spent two years in Italy and Switzerland studying music and the fine arts. He traveled to Australia in 1975 under contract with Warner Bros. Publishing and WEA Records as a producer, arranger, songwriter and entertainer. After his nine year assignment in Sydney and Brisbane, he relocated to London under contract with Carlin Music Publishing. He left the UK in 1990 as an established producer, engineer and arranger having provided services to other recording artists and to the radio and TV commercial advertising market.

Art Diamond, Chairman: Known internationally as a consultant, inventor, author, and producer of high-technology seminars and trade shows, Art Diamond formed DRC in 1968 as a chemical consulting, publishing, and trade show management firm.

Earlier, he was engaged in research and development at Kodak Research Laboratories in Rochester, New York and was Chief Chemist for Litton Industries in New York City. He also served as Research Manager at AM International in Mt. Prospect, IL and as Chief Chemist at Telautograph Corporation in Los Angeles.

For five years, Diamond was President of the Los Angeles-based Consulting Chemists Association. He is a licensed Professional Engineer with a BS in chemical engineering from the Polytechnic University of New York, and a MS in Ch.E. from the University of Rochester.

Diamond holds 15 US patents in imaging technology. He is the author of numerous articles, talks and publications, and Editor of the reference text Handbook of Imaging Materials, first published in July 1991 by Marcel Dekker, Inc.

Dorothy M. Bacchilega, Executive Director: Over the past 28 years, Dorothy Bacchilega has honed her skills as a computer graphic artist in the creation of corporate images, logos, brochures and advertising pieces, as well as in the design and maintenance of Internet websites. During this same period, she served as Executive Vice President of Diamond Research Corporation, drawing upon her background as a financial contract administrator and cost accountant to negotiate hotel contracts and exercise cost control at DRC’s national & international conferences and trade shows.

For four years, she owned and operated "About Time Tours," an excursion planning firm specializing in sightseeing and group events up and down the California coast. She also formed "Watersports," a retail store, instruction and manufacturing firm for sailboarding, catamarans and other water-related recreational activities.