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Kathleen Bentzel
Kathleen Bentzel

Growing Services Business & Developing Technology

30+ yrs of experience

Kathi is a retired engineer and technology leader residing in Dallas, GA. She has dedicated over 30 years of her career to the development and launch of innovative product and service technologies within the energy sector.

Greg Crum
Greg Crum

Mentoring Engineers and Reducing Product Risk

34+ yrs of experience

Greg has 34 years of product development experience at GE, with roles including design engineer, lead design engineer, senior engineer, technical leader, functional manager, and chief consulting engineer. He specializes in turbomachinery design and support. He has been involved in product development and support since their introduction.

Kurt Goodwin
Kurt Goodwin

Advance Manufacturing Expert

Goodwind LLC

40+ yrs of experience

Kurt has 40 years of experience, in driving successful innovative new product developments in high tech industrial fields such Aviation, Gas Turbine, Wind Turbine and Drivetrains. Notably, he established an Advanced Manufacturing Team at GE Power, surpassing a $73 million investment by leveraging technologies like additive manufacturing. At Enron, he transformed the Wind Energy business from losses to over $1 billion profits through design enhancements and cost optimizations.

Bryan Dods
Bryan Dods

Manufacturing Scale up Expert for Start-ups

Dods Manufacturing Consultancy

30+ yrs of experience

Bryan is an aerospace manufacturing executive with over 30 years of experience. His expertise includes supplier network design, advanced manufacturing technology, new product introduction, and capital equipment acquisition. He helps companies set up operations near their OEM customers in the growing aerospace supply chain in the Southeast.

Naresh Aluri
Naresh Aluri

Developing Robust Combustions Systems for Hydrogen

Sustainable Business & Engineering Solutions

18+ yrs of experience

Naresh is an innovative business development leader with system thinking who has constantly delivered in a highly dynamic, cross border and cross functional environment. He is experienced in developing & field implementing fuel flexible, clean combustion technologies for various gas turbine types following circular principles, inventor 12 patents.

His Team: Diverse expertise in the gas turbine industry, including aero thermal, mechanical design, business development, and technology leadership. Our collective experience spans several decades, and have a proven track record of innovation and product integration.

Shridhar Powar
Shridhar Powar

Robust Mechanical Engineering & Analysis

TridenTech Engineering

20+ yrs of experience

Shridhar is an engineering and technology leader with over 20 years of experience, primarily focused on gas turbines and other energy-related sectors.He is passionate about technology and engineering, eager to engage in turnaround situations. With an entrepreneurial spirit and a proactive mindset, he consistently adopt a can-do attitude in all endeavors.

Ryan Legg
Ryan Legg

Creating Strategy for Business Growth

Intentional Growth Partners

20+ yrs of experience

Ryan is passionate about building strategic partnerships that advance clean, reliable, efficient, secure, and sustainable energy solutions. As the Executive of Technology Partnerships at GE Vernova, he leads the strategy, business development, and execution of technology collaborations across the renewable energy portfolio, including wind, solar, hydro, and storage.

Sam Ashrafi
Sam Ashrafi

Visualizing Data

15+ yrs of experience

Sam has over 10 years of experience as a leading business analyst in the renewable energy industry delivering high-level reports and analysis on different aspects of GE products and services. This includes cost margin reviews to study profitability/loss of the services operations and quarterly reports on business growth and associated risks.

Tim Citeno
Tim Citeno

Increasing Business Efficiency & Sales Pipeline

7+ yrs of experience

Tim is a skilled IT expert, specializing in Infrastructure, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Automation. He is known as a technology wizard, he transforms businesses into cutting-edge technological realms through his expertise and innovative approach.

Gil Kraemer
Gil Kraemer

Providing Expertise in Combustion & Fuels

40+ yrs of experience

Dr. Gil Kraemer, ME, Aero, ChemE, with over 40 years of experience in utility, aerospace, and DoD systems, holds around 70 patents and 50 publications. He specializes in gas turbine technologies focusing on emission control and catalytic reactor systems.He mentored and provided solutions for high-value challenges.

Philip Andrew
Philip Andrew

Competitive Assessment Studies and Heat Transfer Design

32+ yrs of experience

Philip's experience is in Power-generation & Aero-engine Turbomachinery, specializing in Fluid Dynamics. He also has experience in Business Development and M&A / Technical Integration, and has led teams in Turbine Aero Design, Product Development Strategy, Technical Competitive Assessment, Conceptual Design, and Product Validation. Philip is a Licensed Professional Engineer in New York State and South Carolina, and is the Inventor of 18 allowed U.S. Patents. He is also a Certified Six Sigma Quality Black Belt, an ASME Fellow, and an Instrument-rated Private Pilot.

Diane Beagle
Diane Beagle

Advising on Growing Services Business and Design Material Selection

30+ yrs of experience

Diane is a services executive with deep expertise in designing, developing, and leading complex global teams to delight customers and successfully deliver on company objectives. She has experience in a wide array of functions including engineering design, materials, manufacturing, quality, component repair, and product service.

Daniel R. Tegel
Daniel R. Tegel

Expert in Gas Turbine Combustion Design/Development

40+ yrs of experience

Dan is viewed as an experienced and broad expert in gas turbine combustion design/development, operability, durability, emissions, fuel flexibility, lab testing and field validation campaigns. He is also recognized for his knowledge and skills in Gas Turbine Operability including startup/shutdown, and navigating GT operation through paths of optimized emissions and subcomponent robustness. Dan has nearly 40 years Gas Turbine experience with GE Power and Pratt & Whitney, culminating in GT Operability Consulting Engineer and Combustion Chief Engineer roles, where his mentoring, insight, broad skills/background, and risk management served his teams well.

Sagar Sarsani
Sagar Sarsani

Scale up of new chemical processes

18+ yrs of experience

Dr. Sarsani is a technical leader with 15 years of experience in the corporate R&D at Dow and SABIC. His expertise spans from catalyst discovery to kinetics and scale up of chemical reactors and processes. Scale up of highly exothermic reactions is of special interest. He has led a technical team to develop a new process from concept to pilot scale and beyond, resulting in 10 granted patents. He is well versed in strategic R&D through a stage-gate system. For the past few years, he has been active in the startup world working with a few companies from technology development to business development and strategy.

Chris Bruner
Chris Bruner

Manufacturing Scale up Expert for Start-ups

30+ yrs of experience

A quality leader with 30+ years in aerospace and precision manufacturing, specializing in AS/ISO standards, Six Sigma, supplier quality, and continuous improvement. Proven ability to build and lead high-performing quality systems that achieve AS9100/AS9120 compliance, reduce RMAs and costs, strengthen supplier and factory quality, and embed Lean/Six Sigma practices to drive measurable, sustained operational excellence.

Rex Morgan
Rex Morgan

Gas Turbine Performance and Simulation

35+ yrs of experience

Engineering consultant with over 35 years of experience in gas turbine performance, thermodynamic modeling, and advanced simulation. Skilled in optimization, system integration, and data-driven engineering. Focused on improving turbine efficiency, accelerating model development, enhancing simulation accuracy, and supporting organizations with modern analytical tools and automated engineering workflows.