Puresafe Water Systems, Inc. Appoints Jack Thomas Tomarchio as a Board Member

Leslie J. Kessler, Chairman and CEO of PureSafe Water Systems, Inc. (OTCBB:PSWS) announced today that they have appointed Jack Thomas Tomarchio as a board member. Jack has extensive experience and we are certain that he will be a valuable asset to the PureSafe Water Systems Board of Directors.

JACK THOMAS TOMARCHIO

Jack Thomas Tomarchio is a principal in the Agoge Group, LLC. In 2005 Mr. Tomarchio was appointed by President George W. Bush to be the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis. In 2007 he was elevated to the position of Deputy Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis Operations. In his work at the United States Department of Homeland Security Mr. Tomarchio was the primary senior official in charge of the intelligence directorate’s partnership with state and local governments to build a domestic intelligence sharing network. He also worked closely with other components of the federal intelligence community. He resigned from the department in August 2008 to return to the private sector.

Prior to joining the United States Department of Homeland Security, Mr. Tomarchio was a partner at the national law firm of Buchanan Ingersoll, P.C. where he was co-chair of the firm’s government relations department and national security law group. Before joining Buchanan Ingersoll, Mr. Tomarchio was a founding partner of Hill Solutions, LLC and Homeland Solutions, LLC. Hill Solutions was a government affairs and lobbying firm and Homeland Solutions was a firm that specialized in consulting state and local governments on homeland security and intelligence issues. From 1993 until 2005 he also served as general counsel to Aloe Investment Corporation, a venture capital firm.

Mr. Tomarchio graduated from Malvern Preparatory School and holds a Bachelor of Arts in History cum laude from the Pennsylvania State University, a Juris Doctor from Vermont Law School, a Masters of Governmental Administration from the Fels Center of Government of the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters of Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College.

He started out his career as an attorney in the United States Army where he served as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division. He served in the Grenada invasion in 1983 and also served as counsel to a multi national peacekeeping force in the Sinai, Arab Republic of Egypt. Leaving active duty in 1985, Mr. Tomarchio became a litigator for two national law firms in Philadelphia. In 1991, Mr. Tomarchio was recalled to active duty and served in the Persian Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

He currently serves as a colonel in the Army Reserve assigned to US Special Operations Command. His most recent assignments were as the Staff Judge Advocate for the Military Intelligence Readiness Command and before that as a special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict in the Pentagon.

He is a commentator, writer and speaker on national security issues and has testified before both houses of Congress on homeland security and intelligence matters. Mr. Tomarchio was an adjunct professor at the Fels Center of Government of the University of Pennsylvania from 2001-2005 and is currently an adjunct lecturer at the United States Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, California. He was a Senior Fellow at the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute (2005-2008) and currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is a member of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, the oldest military unit in continuous existence in the United States. Mr. Tomarchio is also a senior advisor to Berwyn Capital Interests and serves on the Boards of the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundation, ATS Corporation and NICOR Cyber Security, LLC. He currently holds active federal security clearances.

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