Their turbines brought GE and United Technologies into wind. The same people are now building Anacapa.
At Zond Systems (1980 to 2000) and Clipper Windpower (2001 to 2010), this team took wind from prototype to mainstream competitiveness. They started when wind stood where wave energy stands now.
Each technical challenge produced new machines, from the mass roll-out of variable-speed turbines to Clipper’s distributed drivetrains, across multiple generations of commercial wind hardware. That knowledge is now working on wave.
Three decades of large-scale rotating and linear machine design, alongside specialists in ocean engineering and control systems.
A pioneering figure in wind power, founder of Zond Systems and Clipper Windpower. Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame in 2008 as the “Father of Wind Energy in the U.S.”
Co-founded Clipper Windpower and took it from engineering concept through development to commercialization, serving as Executive Vice President of Operations and COO.
MSc in Offshore Renewable Energy from the University of Strathclyde and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toledo. Over a decade in marine renewable energy, leading technology development, funding, and project management.
Over 20 years of finance and operations experience, including CFO of a real estate investment fund and Principal and CFO of a water treatment business that grew from start-up to its sale to GE Water.
The companies that caught that moment became industrial giants. Anacapa has the technology, and the experience of building a new energy market, to catch this one.
