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Sam Logan, Jr.
President/CEO

 

Sam Logan is an energy executive with 25 years experience in the industry including oil and gas exploration/ production, energy marketing, project development and pipeline transportation. In June 1994, he founded LOGANEnergy® Corp. and shifted his business focus to power generation.

Over the last decade, Mr. Logan has been at the heart of Fuel Cell development in the U.S., working collaboratively with the private sector and government entities.

LOGANEnergy® first became an authorized representative of the UTC PC25 fuel cell power plant and a service provider for part of the original Department of Defense (DOD) Fuel Cell fleet. LOGAN expanded its Fuel Cell services by contracting to support the DOD PEM Fuel Cell demonstration programs in 2001. Over the past five years the company has installed over 60 PEM demonstration units at numerous DOD and commercial sites.

In mid-2004, LOGAN became a distributor of FuelCell Energy high-efficiency Fuel Cell systems adding multi-megawatt capability to its catalog of Fuel Cell products. To date, the LOGAN team has a portfolio experience aggregating 8MW of high availability and CHP applications equal to approximately 10% of worldwide Fuel Cell capacity.

Mr. Logan is a 1970 graduate of the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, and a former Captain of Marines and Naval Aviator.


 



Christopher
L. Davis

Chief Operations Officer

 

Christopher Davis has been involved with Fuel Cell power generation and alternative energy applications for more than 23 years.

As Chief Operating Officer for LOGANEnergy®, Mr. Davis is responsible for carrying out the formalized business plan to market and install distributed generation solutions involving Fuel Cells. In this capacity he has oversight of the day to day operations at LOGANEnergy®, which include project development and design, installation, operations & maintenance, and general business management.

Prior to joining LOGANEnergy® in 2004, Mr. Davis began his Fuel Cell career in 1983 at UTC Power, a division of the United Technologies Corporation. He held several positions in multiple disciplines each with increasing responsibility over a 22 year career. Positions held included technology development, manufacturing engineering, project engineering, aftermarket manager for a fleet of more than 130 Fuel Cells, program management, and lastly he served as UTC’s stationary Fuel Cell product manager.

During his career at UTC, Mr. Davis has been involved with several different Fuel Cell technologies which has lead to him receiving a patent along with co-writing and presenting a number of technical papers to various organizations.

Mr. Davis received a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island and a Master’s of Business Administration from Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute.


 


Keith A. Spitznagel
Senior Vice President, Marketing

 

Keith Spitznagel has been involved with new power generation technologies and alternative energy applications for more than 18 years.

As Senior Vice President of Marketing for LOGANEnergy®, Mr. Spitznagel is responsible for the development of new Fuel Cell projects, and for introducing current and perspective customers to the wide range of services available from LOGANEnergy®.

Since 1993 he has managed the installation of 20 Fuel Cells totaling over 4 MW of Fuel Cell generating capacity. These installations include the Riverview Center Nursing Home in Pittsburgh, the first commercial Fuel Cell in Pennsylvania and fourth in North America. He also installed eleven 200 KW Fuel Cells at Department of Defense installations throughout North America.

Prior to joining LOGANEnergy®, Spitznagel was Director of Operations at Sure Power Corporation where he supervised the installation of a 400 KW Fuel Cell based test stand. Mr. Spitznagel was also the Project Manager of Sure Power’s 800 KW Fuel Cell based ultra-high availability power system at the First National Bank of Omaha.

As past chairman of the North American Fuel Cell Owners Group, he is widely recognized within the Fuel Cell development community, where he has co-written and presented a number of technical papers.


 



John Lidderdale
Managing Director
LOGANEnergy® Ltd. Europe

 

John Lidderdale is a mechanical engineer who has spent a large portion of his working life involved in the offshore construction industry, initially in the North Sea and subsequently in Canada and the South Atlantic. He was involved in the development of the Forties and Ninian oilfields and the Frigg gas pipeline system. He was the joint originator, along with an American engineer, of the offshore flowline bundling technique, now in fairly common use and developed the site at Wester in Scotland that is now part of the Halliburton Group. John was also responsible for the development and proving of the tow method that enabled these shore-built systems to be safely delivered to offshore locations. More recently he was responsible, jointly with Derek Fletcher of High-Point Rendel, for developing a unique cold venting system, fully compliant with API-rp-521. These systems are now in use on many offshore structures. His involvement in alternative energy has been long standing. He first drove a hydrogen powered car in April 1974, was project manager for a 14 MWe wind farm installation in 1987, and was Vice-President of International Sales at SurePower Corporation who were among the first to make a multi Fuel Cell (4 x 200 kW) run successfully as an ultra-high-availability power source.



George R. Collard
Vice President of Operations

 

With more than 30 years of experience, George Collard acts as Vice President of Operations for LOGANEnergy® where he supervises the daily operations of the LOGAN technical staff. Based in Twenty-Nine Palms, California his Fuel Cell related responsibilities extend geographically from the US Embassy in London, England to Marine Corp Base Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.

He provides technical support to the project design engineers, project planning, managing the commissioning and starting of the Fuel Cell generators, providing customer support in operations, servicing and maintenance of the installed systems. Collard directly manages all of LOGANEnergy®’s Field Engineers.

Collard has installed Fuel Cells from different manufacturers ranging from 5 to the 600 KW.

Prior to joining LOGANEnergy® he was Owner-President of G. B. C. Electrical Services. Collard managed this successful Southern California company for 13 years. He is a retired US Marine Corps Officer.

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