The founder, Chairman, & CEO of Strategic Power Systems, Inc.®   with over forty-five (45) years of experience in the reliability engineering and information technology disciplines. He held various positions in General Electric's turbine businesses, with a focus on “design for reliability,” product performance and improvements, and customer service. He is the Managing Director of the Gas Turbine Association and is an active member of the Stakeholder Advisory Board on the development of Extreme Environmental Materials, sponsored by DOE and the National Laboratories.  He is a member of ASME, a past Chairman of the Electric Power committee, and past Chairman of the Standards Committee on reliability. He has written and published numerous papers on reliability issues and performance trends in the industry, receiving a “best paper” award in 2001 for a paper entitled “Gas Turbine Performance of Mature, F, and Advanced Technologies 2000.” In 2014, he was awarded the Industrial Gas Turbine Award from ASME for sustained contributions to the energy industry.