ANGI Energy Systems strengthens its multi-fuel future with appointment of senior director for H₂ sales

ANGI Energy Systems (ANGI), a Vontier company and leading provider of alternative fueling solutions is thrilled to announce the appointment of Dev Patel as the Senior Director of Global H₂ Sales. This strategic move aligns with ANGI's commitment to expanding and developing its alternative refueling platform and investing in a multi-energy future.

As the alternative fueling industry evolves, ANGI recognizes the growing interest in H₂ among its customers, including those traditionally involved in compressed natural gas (CNG). The appointment of Dev Patel reflects ANGI's dedication to assisting its customers in transitioning to H₂ and its future expansion in the H₂ sector.

Dev Patel has over 20 years of experience in the gas industry working across both H₂ and CNG markets. In 2020, he joined ANGI as the Director of Business Development for natural gas refueling equipment sales. With a wealth of expertise in both engineering and commercial aspects of the business, Dev has played a pivotal role in expanding the company’s CNG business, whilst helping to build the company's new H₂ commercial function and bridging the gap between H₂ and natural gas operations.

“It is extremely exciting and encouraging to witness the progress and innovation within our company, and the industry, as we transition to alternative, cleaner fuels. My role underlines ANGI Energy Systems' dedication to providing cutting-edge alternative fueling solutions and driving the transition towards a successful, sustainable and multi-energy future,” said Patel.

Former Ford leader, Soraya Kim Larkin, joins new H₂ solution company, H₂ Power, to bring innovative products to market

When entrepreneur Dan Dietrich founded H2 Power Co., he sought to build an A-Team in the renewable H₂ industry. The latest addition to the team, Soraya Kim Larkin, has been named Division President reflecting the company's dedication to excellence and innovation in H₂ solutions. Larkin, formerly Ford Motor Company's CTO Chief of Staff and Director of Strategic Partnerships and Operations in Research & Advanced Engineering (R&A), brings with her a wealth of business acumen and leadership experience.

At Ford, Larkin was responsible for R&A's global operations in Michigan, Palo Alto, Germany and Israel, led teams in University Research, Government Contracts, Information Services, and Budget and Procurement, and represented Ford on the Leadership Group of USCAR and USDRIVE focusing on research in areas of fuel cell, propulsion, advanced storage, critical materials, and grid integration, among others.

Prior to joining Ford, Larkin was the Chief Innovation Officer at the American Center for Mobility, a public-private partnership with a mission to build and offer a 500+ acre, first-of-its-kind, real-world test facility for connected and automated vehicles. Together with a core team, she secured strategic partnerships and investments from AT&T, Deloitte, Ford, Hyundai, Intertek, Microsoft, Siemens, Subaru, Toyota and Visteon.

Larkin is a corporate attorney by training, with a background in mergers and acquisitions, and has worked with global law firms in Canada and General Motors in Michigan. She has strong technology commercialization skills from her time working with the Global Commercialization Group at the University of Texas at Austin where she commercialized new technologies using NASA-based methodology. 

“Her energy, well-rounded experience, and talents are exactly what we need at H2 Power Co. Soraya is the perfect leader to help implement our new ideas. More than just her history in the industry, we value her commitment to innovating and delivering at every turn,” said Dietrich.

“Dan and his team are looking to revolutionize this industry. I couldn't be more thrilled to bring these H₂ solutions to market and contributing to accelerating decarbonization and making the world a place for our children and generations to come,” she said.

Hydrogen Optimized appoints industry leaders to newly created scientific advisory board

Hydrogen Optimized Inc., a subsidiary of Key DH Technologies Inc. (KEY), has established a new Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) to support the ongoing technological advancement of its patented RuggedCell™ high-power water electrolyzers.

The RuggedCell™, designed for large-scale clean H₂ installations, builds on a 100-year-plus Stuart family legacy in alkaline unipolar water electrolysis cells and plant design, which has delivered 1-B cell-hours of operation in approximately 1,000 H₂ plants in 100 countries.

The SAB is composed of distinguished scientists and academics who can accelerate the efforts of Hydrogen Optimized to advance the RuggedCell™ platform. The inaugural Board members are Dr. Gregory Jerkiewicz (Chair), Professor, Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University; Dr. Bruno G. Pollet, Professor of Chemistry, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières; and Dr. Pavel Gris, Chief Scientist of KEY, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo.

“The formation of our Scientific Advisory Board marks a significant step in the future advancement of our RuggedCell™ platform,” said Andrew T. B. Stuart, President and CEO, Hydrogen Optimized. “I am delighted to welcome Gregory, Bruno and Pavel to the Advisory Board, and look forward to their contributions.”

“Our Advisory Board members will review our technology objectives and provide ongoing critical assessment of our key achievements. They will also provide knowledgeable third-party support for customers’ and investors’ evaluation of the RuggedCell™ platform,” said Stuart.  

The RuggedCell™ represents a significant progression in high-power alkaline water electrolysis cell architecture. This design enables the mass manufacturing needed to achieve the lowest levelized cost of H₂ for large-scale installations.

About the Hydrogen Optimized scientific advisory board members

Dr. Gregory Jerkiewicz (SAB Chair), PhD, M.Eng. Dr. Gregory Jerkiewicz, a Professor in Queen’s University Department of Chemistry, studied Chemical Engineering-Engineering Chemistry and Solid-State Physics at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, in the 1980s. He immigrated to Canada in 1985 and, in 1991, earned a doctorate at the University of Ottawa. There, he received several awards including the prestigious Noranda Bradfield Fellowship supported by the Electrolyser Corporation and the late Alexander K. Stuart. In 1992, he was awarded a special Research Professorship by the Ministry of Natural Resources of Quebec and held this position at the Université de Sherbrooke until 2002 when he moved to Queen’s University. He was also a junior holder of a Hydrogen Research Chair while at Sherbrooke. Dr. Jerkiewicz has won several awards including Electrochemistry Award of the Société Française de Chimie (1997), the first time ever awarded to a researcher residing outside of France; the W. A. E. McBryde Medal of the Canadian Society for Chemistry (2004); the Rio Tinto Award of the same Society (2022); and the Eminent Visitor Award of the Catalysis Society of South Africa (2018). He is the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Electrocatalysis., and has served on several executive committees, advisory boards, and grant selection committees including the Board of Directors of the Canadian Society for Chemistry and the Executive Committee of the Canadian Section of the Electrochemical Society.

Professor Jerkiewicz is internationally renowned for his contributions to hydrogen, platinum, and nickel electrochemistry and electrocatalysis. He has authored about 150 publications including numerous peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and has delivered over 200 plenary, keynote lectures and seminars, and 260 conference presentations. In 2012, the President of Poland bestowed on him a Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (equivalent to the Order of Canada), in 2018, the title of Professor of Chemical Sciences, and in 2023, a Cross of Freedom and Solidarity, honoring members of the country’s democratic opposition who were killed or faced other consequences as a result of their activities for the benefit of a free and democratic Poland.

Bruno G. Pollet, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, FRSC. Dr. Bruno G. Pollet, Professor of Chemistry at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), was educated at Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and Coventry University, England, where he earned his doctorate. He is a Fellow of the UK Royal Society of Chemistry, and Adjunct Professor in Renewable Energy at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Dr. Pollet, regarded as one of the most prominent hydrogen experts in the world, is President of the Green Hydrogen Division at International Association for Hydrogen Energy, and has worked on hydrogen energy in the UK, Japan, South Africa, Norway and Canada. At UQTR, he is Co-Director of the Institute for Hydrogen Research (Institut de Recherche sur l'Hydrogène).

Dr. Pollet is a member of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, an Independent Advisory Council to the United Nations’ Secretary-General, and leads H2CAN 2.0, a cluster of hydrogen R&D groups in Canada. He serves on the board of directors of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy, the Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association and Hydrogène Québec. He was awarded two prestigious NSERC Tier 1 Canada Research Chairs in Green Hydrogen Production, and the Innergex Renewable Energy Research Chair focussing on the next generation of hydrogen production and water electrolyzers. Dr. Pollet’s research activities cover a wide range of areas spanning electrochemistry, electrochemical energy conversion and sonoelectrochemistry (the application of ultrasound in electrochemistry). This includes the development of new materials, hydrogen storage and fuel cells, and water treatment and disinfection. Dr. Pollet was awarded the International Association for Hydrogen Energy’s Sir William Grove Award for his work in hydrogen, fuel cell and electrolyzer technologies.

Pavel Gris, PhD, MRSC, C. Chem. Dr. Pavel Gris is Chief Scientist of the KEY group of companies and an Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo. At KEY, Dr. Gris provides member companies of the group’s deuterium and hydrogen divisions with scientific assessments, critical analysis of research activity fundamentals, and deep scientific review of each company’s research and development initiatives. Since joining the KEY group in 2018, his primary focus has been to lead scientific and analytic activities to develop and manufacture deuterated precursors for the pharmaceutical industry as well as deuterated intermediates for the electronics industry. He also evaluates and develops catalyst technology for hydrogen molecule reactions. Within KEY’s deuterium division, Dr. Gris is active in academic collaborations funded by MITACS and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), product and catalyst development, and quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC). He is an active member of the company’s deuterium CMO (contract manufacturing organization) team.

Dr. Gris joined KEY after a career in academia where he obtained extensive experience in a broad range of sciences, clinical research, and university level teaching at Western University, Concordia University, McGill University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has a PhD in molecular neurosciences and bioinformatics from the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Western University, London, Canada. He has also completed two consecutive post-doctoral appointments at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and McGill University in Montreal. Dr. Gris is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a chartered chemist in the province of Ontario.