BOARD MEMBERS
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Simon Greenshields
Chairman of the Board |
Mr. Greenshields has over 35 years of experience in the physical and financial commodity markets. Mr. Greenshields most recently served as Global Co-Head of Morgan Stanley’s Commodity Division where he also served on the Firm’s Management Committee. Mr. Greenshields spent over 30 years at Morgan Stanley, and his team helped build and run the #1 ranked Wall Street Commodity business. Mr. Greenshields left Morgan Stanley in 2016 to acquire and lead Phibro.
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Peter Sherk
Board Member |
Mr. Sherk, former CEO of Mercuria Energy America and former Co-Head of Morgan Stanley’s Commodity Division, has over 25 years of experience in the commodities trading sector. Prior to joining Mercuria and co-heading Morgan Stanley’s Commodity Division, he served as the bank’s Head of Power and Gas for North America. Mr. Sherk joined Morgan Stanley in 1999 as a natural gas trader. Mr. Sherk earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from McGill University.
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Nalin Gupta
Board Member |
Mr. Gupta, Managing Partner of Quasar Energy Partners LLC, was formerly employed within the commodities trading division at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Gupta focused on developing greenfield projects within the downstream chemicals business. Mr. Gupta has an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.
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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
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Todd Culwell
VP Corporate Affairs Mr. Cullwell, Partner at ReedSmith, has been serving as legal counsel to this project since inception. He has extensive experience in providing legal counsel to financial institutions, borrowers, owners, operators and developers in a variety of corporate financing activities, energy infrastructure project development projects, and oil and gas transactions.
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Daniel Williams
VP Engineering Mr. Williams is an accomplished plant engineering and operations manager, with experience on projects in North America and Asia. Most recently, he managed the operations of one of the largest Urea plants in the world. Prior to this, Mr. Williams worked for ConocoPhillips and CB&I in the E-Gas gasification technology licensing business for nearly 10 years, mostly focused on technology development, engineering design, and commissioning of gasification projects.
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Steve Reed
VP Technology Mr. Reed has worked in an engineering role for chemical and power plant operations since 2002. His previous roles include providing IT and security support, maintaining distributed control systems and managing instrumentation, electrical, and analyzer maintenance groups. Mr. Reed also has expertise in construction manpower analysis tools and asset tracking.
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Alyson Horton
VP Administration Ms. Horton has worked in the energy industry for over 10 years. In previous roles, she served as Director of Credit Risk Management for Constellation Energy, Corporate Credit Specialist for Progress Energy and Trading Control Analyst for Mirant Corporation. Prior to her experience in the energy industry, Ms. Horton worked as a corporate banking officer for SunTrust Bank.
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Al Pace
VP Projects Mr. Pace has been working on process plant projects since 1975 and has experience in project management, operations and maintenance. His projects have included ammonia, gasification, gas processing, LNG, petroleum refining, petroleum cokers, petrochemical and chemical. His experience also includes the commercial interface between M.W. Kellogg (now KBR) and Toyo Engineering for the sale of numerous licensed ammonia technology packages.
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Rory Chambers
VP Operations Mr. Chambers has worked with gasification technology since 2003. He is skilled in gasification plant management principles and practices, having worked in various roles of operations and maintenance. His most important duties have included coordinating plant activities, overseeing process safety, and operations supervision. Most recently, Mr. Chambers was involved in the construction, commissioning, start-up and operation of the world’s largest petroleum coke gasification complex in Jamnagar, India.
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