ION Clean Energy Bolsters Leadership Team and Opens New Boulder, Colorado Headquarters as Momentum Continues
2024年7月19日 - 1:45AM
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On the heels of its recent $45 million Series A financing from
Chevron New Energies and Carbon Direct Capital, ION Clean Energy
has announced three key additions to its executive leadership team
and opened the doors on its new Boulder, CO headquarters.
Steve Hirsh has joined ION as President and Chief Financial
Officer. Prior to joining ION, Mr. Hirsh served as Managing
Director of Corporate Development at Proman, a diversified,
integrated energy producer. Mr. Hirsh’s industry relationships and
extensive experience in project development, finance, and
commercial operations will help ION scale its commercial, finance
and supply chain efforts.
Also joining ION’s executive team as Chief Operating Officer is
Ben Gurtler. Mr. Gurtler joins ION from Koch Engineered Solutions
where he was KES’s Commercial Director of Carbon Capture and has
long been an advocate of ION’s technology and team. Mr. Gurtler’s
knowledge and experience in carbon capture will be indispensable as
ION continues to deploy its technology at scale and form strategic
partnerships across all aspects of project delivery and
execution.
Finally, ION has also hired Jeannie Donovan as VP, Human
Resources. Ms. Donovan joins ION after leading the HR practice at
Velocity Global where she helped scale that business from a team of
20 employees to over 800 people in 40 different countries. Ms.
Donovan’s experience will help ION build out its team as they staff
up to meeting growing commercial demand.
“At ION our science is the differentiator and thanks to our
Founder and Executive Chairman Dr. Buz Brown’s original vision, we
have always had great technology,” said ION CEO Tim Vail. “Now
we’re supplementing our world class staff with more expertise that
can help us get that technology to more customers and capture more
CO2 emissions. Steve, Ben, Jeannie, and the teams they’ll build are
vital additions to our already strong core. These new people and
exciting new space in Boulder combined with the tailwinds from our
recent financing bring enthusiasm and commercial and investor
interest at an all-time high. We are well positioned for continued
growth in the years ahead.”
The announcement of these recent hires builds upon significant
corporate and commercial momentum for ION over the past year.
In December 2023, it was announced that Calpine’s Sutter
Decarbonization Project was selected as a recipient of the U.S.
Department of Energy Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations major
demonstration program. ION is the capture technology provider, and
the project is now in negotiations to build a commercial-scale
carbon capture and storage project that will capture up to 1.75
million metric tons of CO2 per year.
In February 2024, ION completed its second successful testing
campaign at Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) in Norway, where its
ICE-31 technology demonstrated unprecedented deep decarbonization
capabilities and emissions results. The 5-month, full-scale pilot
program proved ION’s capability to achieve 99%+ capture rates at
competitive energy rates with virtually zero emissions. These
results clearly set ION apart from the competition in the
hard-to-abate CO2 capture sector.
In addition to the TCM campaign, ION and Calpine commissioned
ION’s 10 TPD “Enterprise” Pilot facility at Calpine’s Los Medanos
Energy Center in California in September 2023. The pilot began
operation without delays and has continued to demonstrate extremely
impressive results on a low CO2, high O2 NGCC flue gas for over ten
months.
About ION Clean Energy, Inc.
ION was founded in 2008 in Boulder, Colorado and is a worldwide
leader in carbon dioxide capture technologies that reduce overall
costs and make CO2 capture a more viable option for greenhouse gas
mitigation. The company is commercializing proprietary liquid
absorbent process technology that demonstrates transformational
performance and is more effective and cost efficient than current
commercial solutions to capture CO2 emissions from post-combustion
utility and industrial point sources. Most significantly, ION’s
technology can capture more than 95% of CO2 emissions with
extremely low emissions, unprecedented solvent stability, and low
energy requirements. www.ioncleanenergy.com.
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ION Clean Energy, Inc. Ryan Skubic
ryan.skubic@ioncleanenergy.com (303) 997-7097