Press Announcement

US Fuel Cell Council Elects New Leadership

at Annual Meeting

(Washington D.C. – June 10, 2002) Members of the U.S. Fuel Cell Council’s Board of Directors elected the organization’s new officers at their Annual Spring Meeting, which took place May 21-22, 2002, in Washington, DC. The Council serves as the trade association dedicated to the commercialization of fuel cell technologies in the United States.

Officers approved by the Board of Directors were:

• President: George Earle, Plug Power, LLC

• Treasurer: Jim Stike, Porvair Fuel Cell Technologies

• Secretary: Eric Simpkins, IdaTech

Also approved at the meeting were members of the Policy Committee and Executive

Committee:

Policy Committee – Chair: Rhett Ross, Teledyne Fuel Cell Systems

Greg Dolan, Methanol Institute
Peter Lauzon, Conoco
Tom Lavka, Metallic Power
Sung Lee, Dupont
Rich Shaw, Fuel Cell Energy
Eric Simpkins, IdaTech

Executive Committee – Officers, plus the following:

Rhett Ross, Policy Committee,
Ex Officio Bob Brown, Fuel Cell Energy
Peter Ciampa, Delphi
Michael Finney, NextEnergy/MEDC
Chris Forbes, Siemens Westinghouse
Larry Frisch, Dow Corning
Steve Kukucha, Ballard Power Systems
David Lane, W. L. Gore
Claude Moreau, 3-M

The U.S. Fuel Cell Council was formed in 1998 and is open to anyone who shares our goal of fuel cell commercialization in the United States. Its members include producers of fuel cells, as well as major suppliers, fuel providers, government agencies and customers.

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