OWG was founded by engineers and scientists who looked at the homelessness crisis and saw a neurological problem that the healthcare system was not equipped to solve.
Our Story
More than half of homeless adults carry a history of traumatic brain injury — most of it sustained years or decades before they lost their housing. The cognitive sequelae of untreated TBI erode the very capacities that stable housing requires: the ability to manage time, navigate bureaucracy, hold a job, maintain relationships, and sleep.
Standard homeless services are built for people whose brains are functioning within normal range. They consistently underperform for people whose brains are not. OWG was founded on the conviction that this is the root failure — and that it is solvable with the right protocol.
Our three founding scientists and engineers spent a combined 100+ years in fields where precision matters and results are measurable. We are applying that same discipline to a problem that has, until now, been treated primarily as a social and moral failure rather than a physiological one.
What Drives Us
Leadership
OWG was built by three founders whose careers span aerospace engineering, water science, computer systems, and organizational leadership — united by a shared conviction that the homelessness crisis demands a scientific answer.
Thirty-one years ago, a bicycle accident in Santa Barbara left Scott Miller with a traumatic brain injury. What followed — depression, disrupted sleep, difficulty concentrating — gave him direct, personal knowledge of what TBI survivors face, and what the healthcare system typically offers in response.
In 2003, Scott joined the team at Issels Medical Center in Summerland, California, one of the world's longest-established integrative treatment centers, founded by Dr. Josef Issels in Germany in the 1960s. Working alongside practitioners who combined multiple complementary therapies to achieve outcomes that single-modality protocols could not, Scott developed a conviction that the same philosophy could transform outcomes for people with untreated TBI — particularly the 53 percent of homeless adults who carry a lifetime history of brain injury that the current system is not equipped to address.
Scott co-founded the Orotate Wellness Group to build that model in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties — the communities he knows firsthand.
Degreed Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Astronautical Engineer. Co-founder of Water Factory Systems, one of the earliest developers of Reverse Osmosis technology for home drinking water and medical applications. Water Factory Systems was acquired by CUNO Inc. and subsequently by 3M Corporation.
Robert is the leading North American authority on marine mineral supplementation and cellular bioterrain science. After a personal health recovery using these protocols in Brazil, he devoted decades to researching and distributing marine mineral therapies, deuterium-depleted water, and molecular hydrogen therapy. He represents the scientific core of OWG's cellular bioterrain protocol.
Jan brings over 50 years of professional experience in technology and operations: 18 years with Digital Equipment Corporation, followed by 32 years as founder and President of Advanced Business Technology, Inc. (abtinc.com), which he continues to lead.
His career spans three continents — education in Poland and Australia formally assessed as equivalent to a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering Technology — with a client roster that has included Boeing Satellite Systems, Northrop-Grumman, and the U.S. Navy.
A Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Professional, Jan oversees OWG's digital infrastructure, business communications, and operational architecture.
Ian Cherkowski has spent 25+ years building software products for small and mid-sized businesses, including 21 years at Advanced Business Technology, Inc. — the technology firm Jan Cherkowski founded and continues to lead. At ABT, Ian architected the firm's drop-ship management platform, which integrated 15 distributors and drove $3M/year in revenue growth, and built proprietary vendor-integration and order-management systems for the firm's e-commerce clients.
Since 2024, Ian has focused on AI-powered product development. He is the founder of RE Flip Finder (reflipfinder.com), a production AI SaaS platform that analyzes fix-and-flip opportunities for real estate investors and agents across multiple U.S. counties, and has launched two additional AI systems for video indexing and financial analysis. He works daily with large-language-model APIs, agent architectures, and AI-assisted development tooling.
At OWG, Ian oversees the AI and digital-product layer of the organization's infrastructure, partnering with Jan Cherkowski's technology and operations function to build the systems OWG will need to scale its protocol delivery, research synthesis, and partner communications.
Ian studied Aerospace Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia, and lives in Newbury Park, Ventura County.
Healthcare attorney and Certified Public Accountant with dual JD/CPA credentials. Twenty-year colleague of Robert Slovak. Brings healthcare law and corporate finance expertise to govern OWG's regulatory compliance, entity structure, and fiduciary accountability as the organization scales.
Scientific Foundation
In 1897, French physiologist Rene Quinton established what he called the "Law of Marine Constancy": that the body's internal cellular environment must closely mirror the mineral composition of seawater for cells to function at full capacity. Quinton's clinical work — using diluted seawater to restore critically ill patients — produced results that contemporary researchers are only now beginning to revisit.
Robert Slovak encountered Quinton's work after his own health recovery in Brazil. He has spent decades since establishing marine mineral supplementation as a legitimate, clinically relevant protocol in North America, and bringing the scientific community's attention back to Quinton's foundational insight.
OWG's third pillar applies this insight directly: restoring the cellular mineral balance of people whose bodies have been subjected to chronic stress, poor nutrition, and environmental degradation.
Quinton's Observation
"Life emerged from the sea. To restore life at the cellular level, we must restore the sea within."
Rene Quinton, 1866–1925. French physiologist, author of L'Eau de Mer, Milieu Organique (1904).
OWG's Chief Science Officer Robert Slovak is the primary modern authority on Quinton's clinical protocols in North America.
Organizational Structure
OWG is in the pre-formation stage. Our entity filing with the California Secretary of State is in preparation. We are currently seeking strategic partners, donors, and equity co-founders to build this organization.
Our planned entity structure is a hybrid: a 501(c)(3) nonprofit parent organization for grant-funded and charitable programming, paired with an LLC operating subsidiary for commercial protocol operations and strategic acquisitions.