Martin Capages, Jr. PhD is a technical executive and licensed professional engineer. He was an engineering manager in petroleum exploration and production for two major energy corporations until he left that industry to start his own engineering consulting firm in 1993. While never politically active, he became concerned about the increase in the movement towards socialism in the United States after witnessing its negative effects on the United Kingdom while he was involved with development planning of the North Sea for Exxon in the mid to late 1970s.
