SkyH2O Team
SkyH2O is a triple-bottom-line … People, Planet & Profit … impact company. The business is formed by leading Water, Energy, Project Development & Finance, Engineering, EPC construction, Asset Management, and Legal Executives, to proactively develop the growing need for industrial grade Atmospheric Water Generation (“AWG”). Together the group provides the expertise with credibility and professional network to deliver within budget utility-scale AWG facilities.
Management
Alexander von Welczeck (Irvine, USA)
Chairman, President & CEO
30 years in business, corporate and project development | Founder/CEO of Solar Power Partners (now NRG Solar) | Co-Founder of Clean Power Capital (CPC) | Former Executive at DOVER and Thyssen-Krupp | University of San Francisco
Terell Jones (Austin, Texas)
Director, Business Development & Alliances
25 years in Information Technology Sales Marketing, and consulting | Co-Founder of Green IT Council | Founding Partner with Elmihra Mundi | Experienced in project management, channel management, data center, smart cities, economic development, real estate investing, and business intelligence consulting | U.S. Navy | UCLA
Loren Simpelo, (Irvine, USA)
Director, Marketing & Communications
30 years in marketing, communications including design and brand management for consumer and industrial products and services | Executive at SIMPLE DESIGN | Academy of Art | University of Missouri
Tom Sieber
Chief Engineer
+30 years experience in technical leadership in the HVAC industry, including 14 years as President and CEO of Alliance Air Products. Well grounded in both the engineering and financial aspects of new products development, design and testing, as well as proven team-building skills.
Guillermo Sepúlveda
Director, Mexico & Latin America
30 years in business, corporate and project development | Founder/CEO Gröuth Group | Former RE Executive at JLL, DTZ, Avison Young and CBRE | Architect with MBA from University of Texas
Louis Borg
Director, Europe
M.Sc. in Sustainable Energy and Ph.D. candidate in Sustainable Development, is an energy expert with over 20 years of experience. Founder of Malta’s first energy consultancy, Eco Group Ltd., he excels in renewable energy, urban mobility, and R&D. A lecturer and inventor, Louis advocates for sustainability in policy and innovation.
Chief Advisors
Tarek I. Zohdi. Ph.D., (Berkeley, USA)
Chief Technology Advisor
20 years in engineering, research and science including; advanced manufacturing processes, high-strength fabric, particulate/granular flows, multiphase/composite electromagnetic media, the dynamics of swarms |Staff Scientist position at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs,Chancellor’s Professor at UC Berkeley
Charlie Kuffner, P.E. (San Francisco, USA)
Chief Operating Advisor
30 years in large scale commercial and EPC construction, alternative energy, project and executive mgmt | Co-founder of Clean Power Group (CPG) |Former Executive & COO of Swinerton Builders | Stanford University
Dirk Michels, J.D. (Los Angeles, CA)
Chief Legal Advisor
20 years partner in AmLaw 100 law firms representing cleantech companies and investors | Founder of Ignite Ventures, Inc. | Developer and Owner of various cleantech and renewable energy projects | University of Hamburg, Germany | University of San Diego
Joseph Stein, Dipl.-Ing. (San Francisco, USA)
Advisor, Building & Architecture
30 years in architecture & project development, 20 years in property management & real estate | former senior project architect at IFB Germany, currently President / Broker Officer in San Mateo, CA | U.C. Berkeley & Stuttgart University (Dipl. Ing.)
Heinrich C. Hollekamp, Ph.D., Dipl. Ing. (Germany)
Advisor, Engineering, Energy & Water
20 years in engineering, project management including infrastructure, energy, energy efficiency and water | Former executive of BAYER AG and URENCO |HCH Engineering | University Breslau
International Advisory Board
Morton Irvine Smith (Irvine, USA)
Advisor, Business Development
30 years in business | Chairman of the Board Irvine America | Executive Director Clean Power Capital LLC | Managing Director, Transformation LLC | University of Rhode Island