Tom L. Pierson is the Founder and Chairman of TAS, a leading provider of high-efficiency, modular chilled water plants with over 600,000 tons installed across the commercial, industrial and power generation markets. Tom has been active in the Power and Industrial Cooling & Heating business for over 28 years.
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Tom began his early career at Trane where he specialized in Process Cooling as General Manager of the Industrial Division in Houston. He later began applying process cooling technology to Power Plants and completed the world’s first Gas Turbine Inlet Cooling project in 1987. Tom later founded TAS to provide a completely factory engineered and prefabricated chilled water plant with guaranteed performance and improved efficiency similar to the innovations previously achieved in the power industry with the evolution of packaged gas turbine plants. Tom has recently worked on expanding this modular concept to utilize heat from gas turbines & engines for the production of chilled water in Clean Heat & Power (CHP) systems as well as Advanced Heat Recovery (AHR) systems which convert waste exhaust heat directly into electrical or mechanical power without steam through patented Organic Rankin Cycle modular plants.
Tom received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arkansas. He is a member of ASHRAE, ASME, U.S. Green Building Council, is a past Chairman of the Turbine Inlet Cooling Association (TICA), and is currently a Board member of the International District Energy Association (IDEA) and the U.S. Clean Heat & Power Association (USCHPA). Mr. Pierson holds (7) U.S. Patents related to chilled water plant designs, Turbine Inlet Cooling, and Integrated Energy Systems and he remains active in the corporate development of new technologies related to Central Plant systems optimization, performance measurement & verification, CHP, and renewable power.
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Craig M. Hurlbert is Chief Executive Officer of TAS, a leading global provider of high efficiency and modular cooling and energy systems for the commercial, industrial and power generation markets. Mr. Hurlbert was named to his current position in April 2008 and prior to this role served as President since joining the company in 2001.
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Mr. Hurlbert joined TAS from Pratt & Whitney Power Systems (PWPS) where he served as President and General Manager of the business unit P2 Energy. Prior to PWPS, he served as President and CEO of the PIC Energy Group.
Mr. Hurlbert’s energy industry experience includes serving as Director of International Business Development for Stewart & Stevenson (S&S), the world’s largest third party operator of Power Plants. S&S was acquired by General Electric and Mr. Hurlbert was named General Manager of Global Sales for GE's Contractual Services business leading the GE/S&S integrated service provider from $750 million in backlog at inception to $7 billion in backlog in 24 months.
He joined the energy industry in 1990 in a position with North American Energy Services (NAES) a leading operations and maintenance company where he led sales in the Latin and South American markets. Prior to NAES Mr. Hurlbert served as a Valuation Manager in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group for the Geneva Companies and prior to Geneva he worked for the Ford Motor Company in their financial management program. Mr. Hurlbert has a BS degree from San Diego State and an MBA from the University of California – Long Beach. Mr. Hurlbert is the past President and current Chairman of the Turbine Inlet Cooling Association - www.turbineinletcooling.org.
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Mike Brady is President of TAS, a leading global provider of high efficiency and modular cooling and energy systems for the commercial, industrial and power generation markets. TAS designs, manufacturers, installs and services its highly engineered systems with installations in North and South America, Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australia. Mr. Brady joined TAS in February 2006 as Chief Financial Officer and was promoted to President in September 2006.
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Prior to joining TAS, he was Director, Business Strategy for Home Depot. Mr. Brady’s professional experience includes serving as Vice President of Risk Management as well as Vice President of Sales for Pratt & Whitney Power Systems (PWPS) in addition to 15 years of GE experience in their GE Lighting, GE Aircraft Engines, GE Appliances and GE Power Systems divisions. Mr. Brady has a BS in Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from Xavier University.
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Gary Hilberg is Vice President Sales of TAS, a leading global provider of high efficiency and modular cooling and energy systems for the commercial, industrial and power generation markets.
Mr. Hilberg joined TAS in August 2002 and is responsible for sales in the Americas, Asia, Europe and Australia. He has sales leadership responsibility for turbine inlet chilling serving the power generation industry; for cooling, heating and on-site power systems serving the commercial market; and for industrial process cooling and on-site power systems serving the industrial market.
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Prior to joining TAS, Mr. Hilberg served as Vice President of Marketing and later Aftermarket Sales for Pratt & Whitney Power Systems (PWPS). Prior to PWPS, Mr. Hilberg served as Commercial Leader, Asia for GE Energy Services and Manager of Technical Services for North American Energy Services. He began his professional career with the United States Navy, serving on nuclear submarines for seven years.
Mr. Hilberg has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University and an MBA from the University of Phoenix. Mr. Hilberg is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of California. Mr. Hilberg is the past president of the Turbine Inlet Cooling Association - www.turbineinletcooling.org.
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Doug Backlund is the Vice President of Engineering of TAS, a leading global provider of high efficiency and modular cooling and energy systems for the commercial, industrial and power generation markets.
Mr. Backlund joined the company in July 2001 and brings to TAS over twenty years experience in the design and construction of packaged industrial systems. He has responsibility for TAS’ engineering functions including Project Engineering, Drafting & Design, Product Development and R&D.
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Prior to joining TAS, Mr. Backlund served in progressive roles with a Houston based packager of industrial rotating equipment systems supporting various industries worldwide. During this time his responsibilities included ASME Code Vessel / Pipe Designer, Project Engineer, Project Manager and Engineering Manager. Mr. Backlund began his career with a manufacturer and packager of positive displacement blowers and vacuum systems, as Applications / Sales Engineer.
Mr. Backlund has a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Missouri with an MBA from the University of Houston.
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Brian Kariker is the Vice President, Project Execution. Mr. Kariker has held positions at Turbine Air Systems, Ltd in project management, account management, and application engineering management before being named to his current role in January of 2008.
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After graduating from Texas Tech University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, he began his career as a Graduate Field Engineer designing and repairing turbo-machinery foundations in the process and petrochemical industries.
Thereafter, Mr. Kariker spent 10 years in engineering, designing, managing, and commissioning projects involving packaged rotating equipment systems for the power generation, process and petrochemical industries. He held positions in application engineering, field service, project engineering and project management. Throughout this segment of his career he was heavily involved from a development and execution perspective on packaged equipment systems, involving electric motor and reciprocating engine driven compressed air; compressed gas; vapor recovery; compressed nitrogen; gas heating and treatment; and refrigeration.
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Keith Evans is the Director of Business Development TAS Middle EAST LLC (TASME), a leading global provider of high efficiency and modular cooling and energy systems for the commercial, industrial and power generation markets. TASME’s regional office is in Dubai, UAE and serves the Middle East, Africa and India markets.
Mr. Evans joined TAS in April of 2005 and has led the effort to grow TAS’ presence in the Middle East, resulting in a doubling of TAS' installed chilled water capacity to 220,000 tons.
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Prior to joining TAS, he served with Emerson Climate Technologies and prior to Emerson, the General Electric Company. Mr. Evans served on the executive management board of Zamil Air Conditioning and prior to this role, he worked for the Trane Company in the Middle East for eleven years. He began his career with Star Refrigeration in the industrial and process refrigeration industry.
Mr. Evans graduated from Hull University in 1986 with a HND in Building Services and is currently working toward his MBA through Aston University. He is a member of ASHRAE, the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers.
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