Current Product Development

A team of distinguished turbomachinery experts and business leaders is advising and assisting in development and marketing.

The first prototype of a 300 kWe Wilson Microturbine is currently being built for testing and refinement. Key members of the development advisory team include:
 

Ceramics advisors

Yet-Ming Chiang

MIT Kyocera, Professor of Ceramics and founder of American Superconductor and A123 Systems

David Richerson

President of Richerson and Associates, ceramics consultants, and adjunct associate professor, University of Utah
 

Technical and business advisors

Kymus Ginwala

Microturbine and heat-exchanger executive, former CEO NREC (now Ingersoll-Rand Microturbines and Concepts NREC)

Lars Malmrup

Founder and CTO of Turbec, a former joint venture of Volvo and ABB to develop a microturbine and a ceramic rotary heat exchanger
 

Technical and design advisors

George Touchton

Former CTO of Solo Microturbines

Jim Kesseli

CEO of Brayton Energy, former Chief Project Engineer for the Ingersoll Rand microturbine and heat exchanger

Tom Wolf

Brayton Energy, former Project Engineer for the Ingersoll Rand microturbine and heat exchanger

Kurt Zimmerman

CEO Zimmerman Aeronautical

Jon Stopa

Former industrial-engine engineer, Ford Motor Company

Dan Brown

CEO Brown Turbo, turbomachinery design consultants

Bjoern Schenk

Former Senior Engineer, Honeywell microturbine development