Gurjant Randhawa is a visionary and highly respected professional with extensive background in Cleantech technologies with focus on Hydrogen. Gurjant is registered with Professional Engineers Ontario, a highly respected licensing and regulating body for professional engineering in the province.

Gurjant Randhawa has more than a decade of hands-on experience in hydrogen electrolysers and fuel cells. Mr. Randhawa has led the Cipher Neutron team with his unparallel leadership skills and his in-depth knowledge in hydrogen technologies including but not limited to thin-film deposition, flow through porous media/ gas diffusion layers, material characterization skills and electrochemical diagnostic methods.

Mr. Randhawa has successfully put together a global team of scientists, engineers, technology developers, experts in hydrogen technology, and people that have worked in hydrogen and power generation sector for decades. Previously, he served as the Head of Research and Development for a very successful Toronto Stock Exchange listed company which markets alkaline based electrolysers globally. Mr. Randhawa co-invented new technologies and filed many international patents in the hydrogen space.

Mr. Randhawa also serves as an Advisor for the Hydrogen Technology for a Toronto based private corporation, established to create one of Canada’s leading hubs of Clean Technology public company-related knowledge.

Randhawa holds a master’s in mechanical engineering degree from the University of New Brunswick.

Dr. Pierre Rivard has been a champion of cleaner and renewable energy for three decades, and a passionate supporter and developer of the energy technology industry. He has served as CEO, co-founder, chairman, board member, angel investor, advisor, and philanthropist for several innovative companies in California and Canada, including successful hydrogen fuel cell and electrolyser companies, as well as energy storage, wind, flywheel, electric vehicle, aerospace, waste management, and water treatment enterprises. He has also chaired national and regional industry and research associations. More recently, he served on Canada’s Clean Technology Economic Strategy Table.

Dr. Rivard’s successes include the launch and IPO of NASDAQ-listed hydrogen fuel cell company Hydrogenics Corporation, where, for 12 years, he served as founding President & CEO and later as Executive Chairman. At Hydrogenics, he built an award-winning, high-performance team that was recognized as Canada’s fastest-growing company, which achieved the #1 spot on the Profit 100 list in 2003. Hydrogenics Corporation was later acquired by Cummins Inc. in 2019.

Dr. Rivard is currently the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of TUGLIQ Energy Corp., a company focused on diversifying energy sources for Northern mining operations using renewable energy. He also serves on the Departmental Audit Committee of, and on Council of, the National Research Council. Additionally, Dr. Rivard dedicated 21 years of service to the Canadian Air Force.

Dr. Rivard holds a Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of Toronto (Honoris Causa, for lifetime achievements in clean technology), an MBA from Western University’s Ivey School of Business, and a Baccalaureate in Mechanical Engineering from Kingston’s Royal Military College of Canada. He is a Professional Engineer licensed in Quebec and Ontario, and formerly in California and Norway.

Ranny Dhillon is a result oriented and innovative professional with 8+ years of research and development, prototyping, protype to production experience in hydrogen electrolysers, fuel cells and Membrane electrode preparation techniques. Ranny has thorough understanding of PEMFC, PEM Electrolysers, AEM Electrolysers and their sub components such as MEA, Gas Diffusion Layer, Porous Transport Layer, Flow Fields etc.

Ranny co-invented 3 international patents in switching cell technology, amperage-based analysis of hydrogen gas and Graphene-based hydrogen storage and delivery system.

Ranny has also worked on other renewable energy sources such as solar chimney, pump storage, geothermal and wind energy. Ranny has a very strong background in electromechanical engineering and holds a master’s in engineering degree in Electrical Engineering. Ranny successfully developed and launched numerous automotive grade products.

Jean-Pierre Colin is an investment banker, strategy consultant and a member of the Bar of the Province of Quebec.  Mr. Colin has served on numerous boards of directors of public companies throughout his career, including as Chairman, Chair of Audit Committees, Chair of Corporate Governance Committees and Chair of Compensation and Nominating Committees and Chair of Independent Committees to evaluate public takeover bids and mergers.

For three decades Mr. Colin managed investment banking departments of renowned securities firms, heading Corporate Finance groups and Mergers and Acquisitions professionals. Mr. Colin also led a high-level boutique focussing on financing global companies that develop critical minerals and clean energy infrastructure.

Mr. Colin financed and advised numerous Canadian public companies, including IPO’s and subsequent offerings of household names in Canada.

In addition to financing over 200 public companies in Canada, Mr. Colin co-founded and initiated the creation of Detour Gold Corporation, one of North America’s largest gold mines, he served on the board of directors of Virginia Gold Mines for 10 years until its successful sale of the Eleonore gold property in Quebec for over $ 1.2 billion, served on the board of Wolfden Resources when it was sold for ½ $ billion to Zinifex, and co-founded Premier Gold Mines which operated several North American gold mines and was eventually purchased by Equinox Resources. Mr. Colin was also Chairman of a public company which became one of Turkey’s most successful poly-metallic base metal and precious metal mines and successfully defended public companies including Canada’s second largest operating nickel mine, against a hostile takeover.

As a creative and practical mining portfolio manager, Mr. Colin financed the first ever flow through share offerings in Canada and went on to create and manage over $2 billion of high-profile public limited partnership funds, 15 in total, which invested in over 400 public companies in Canada in the last 3 decades.

Throughout his career, Mr. Colin served on the Hydrogen Working Group of the Government of Ontario, The Waterloo Advisory Council of the University of Waterloo, an advisor to the Privy Council of the Government of Canada in the five multi-billion dollar takeovers that led to the creation of Petro Canada, as advisor to the Montreal Exchange on takeover bid legislation, as advisor to the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada on securities legislation, and advisor to the Ontario Mining Association on the implementation of mineral disclosure legislation. Mr. Colin was also a sponsor of the University Health Network in Toronto and has given numerous speeches throughout Canada on business strategy.

Mr. Colin currently serves as Executive Vice President, CFO, Corporate Secretary and Director of dynaCERT Inc., a Toronto Stock Exchange listed company offering hydrogen technology to the global marketplace.

Mr. Colin studied Engineering and Biology at McGill University, where he earned a DCS; Civil Law at the University of Ottawa where he earned an LL.L., Comparative law (Civil Law/Common Law), at the University of Manitoba; an MBA business degree at the Ivey School of Business of Western University; le Barreau du Québec, where he qualified as a lawyer and he holds certifications in Canadian Securities Courses and management of securities registrants in Canada.

Dr. Bruno Pollet is a member of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET): An Independent Advisory Council to the United Nations’ Secretary-General, and a CEET Hydrogen Task Force leader. He is also member of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Hydrogen Task Force, the International Energy Agency (IEA) Hydrogen Technology Collaboration Program (TCP) Renewable Hydrogen Task Force and the IEA Technology Collaboration Programme on Advanced Fuel Cells.

Dr. Pollet is also the President of the Green Hydrogen Division of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE), member of the Board of Directors of the IAHE, member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (CHFCA), member of the Board of Directors of Hydrogène Québec, leader of H2CAN 2.0 (a cluster of hydrogen R&D groups in Canada), and Director of the UQTR Research Hydrogen Institute (HRI- Institut de recherche sur l’hydrogène at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières).

He has recently been acting as the Scientific Advisor of TES Canada H2 Inc., one of the largest producers of renewable hydrogen and natural gas in Canada. He also acts as the “Hydrogen Champion” and Scientific Committee member of the Energy Transition Valley (Vallée de la Transition Énergétique – VTÉ). He was awarded two prestigious research chairs: NSERC Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Green Hydrogen Production, and the Innergex Renewable Energy Research Chair focussing on the next generation of hydrogen production and water electrolysers (electrolysis of water). He was also awarded the “IAHE Sir William Grove Award” in recognition of his leadership and his ground-breaking works in hydrogen, fuel cell and electrolyser technologies IAHE. In 2022, Bruno G. Pollet was invited to witness at the Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources and the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, at the House of Commons in Canada.

Dr. Mayilvelnathan Vivekananthan (Vivek) is an Inventor, Innovation Coach and likes to work at the convergence of multiple clean and green energy technologies.

Dr. Vivek has 20+ years of experience in the clean energy industry and in the area of research, planning, designing, development, implementation and operation of green hydrogen projects in various parts of the world. Dr. Vivek’s extensive international experience in both academia research and industry has allowed him to build an extensive network of friends and collaborators across the whole hydrogen value chain that work right now in the amazing challenge of building a new energy system for our society. Dr. Vivek is very influential personality worldwide.

Amandeep Singh has 10 + years of Research and Development experience in Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Electrolysers and Hydrogen storage mediums. He has got 13 patents under his name and published more than 50 research articles in refereed internal journals and conferences.

Dr. Singh has received his PhD in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering from the RMIT University, Australia. Besides, he is an Australian Commonwealth Government’s Scholarship Awardee and a research grant awardee from Brown Coal Innovation Australia. Dr. Singh is a renowned researcher in the field of hydrogen technology with a research focus on Green Hydrogen generation, its storage in various porous mediums, and utilization in PEM fuel cells for varied applications. Mr. Singh Executed numerous projects on the development of solutions for improved electrocatalysts and efficiencies for Water electrolysers, Fuel Cells and Reversible Fuel Cells.

Dr.Karpenko-Jereb Larisa is an expert in simulation and modelling of polymer electrolyte fuel cells with more than 20-years-experience in academic and applied research. She graduated in the field of Electrochemistry and Physical Chemistry from the Institute of Membrane Technology at the Kuban State University, Krasnodar (Russia). Since 2009 she has been working on modelling and simulation of durability and lifetime of polymer electrolytes and catalysts applied in renewable energy sources. The newly developed models have been used to diagnose critical conditions and monitoring degradation processes in the cells to optimize energy source reliability. Dr. Karpenko-Jereb is the author and co-author of two book chapters and around 25 peer-reviewed papers. She is also a reviewer for a few scientific journals published by Elsevier and Springer, a leader of research projects granted by the Austrian Promotion Foundation (FFG).

Gurpreet Bhullar is double master’s in mechanical engineering and management studies.

Gurpreet has 8 years+ of work experience enriched with Product Development Techniques (PDT) and practical experience in design controls, risk management, verification, validation and change control, and failure investigation tools and techniques.

His past work experience is a mix of academics and industry that provides him a critical theoretical and practical thinking ability.

Mr. Bhullar has in depth knowledge of PEMFC, PEM Electrolysers, AEM Electrolysers and their subcomponents such as MEA, Gas Diffusion Layer, Porous Transport Layer, Flow Fields etc.

Mr. Bhullar has experience leading the development of the foundation design processes, design system and libraries, and adoption of the design strategy throughout the product lifecycle.

Dr. Xianguo Li is a Professor of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include fuel cells and electrolyzers, liquid fuel atomization and sprays, and green energy systems, as well as the thermal management of power batteries for electric vehicles.

Dr. Li serves as the editor in chief for the International Journal of Green Energy, Field Chief Editor for Frontiers in Thermal Engineering; Vice President, Technical Program, Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering; President of the Fuel Cell Division, International Association for Hydrogen Energy, and President, International Association for Green Energy (IAGE). He is a fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, Engineering Institute of Canada and Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering.

Nancy Massicotte is the President of IR Pro Communications Inc. and has been involved in the corporate development, investor relations and advisory field for over 23 years, working with companies in various sectors such as mining, technology, biotech, oil and gas.

Ms. Massicotte has developed excellent personalized relationships with brokers, investors, analysts and newsletter writers. Her knowledge and experience enable successful communication to shareholders and the investment community in a particularly comprehensive way.

Ms. Massicotte understands IIROC rules and Canadian National Instruments relating to proper regulatory disclosure and language norms of press releases of public entities.

She has facilitated significant introductions to strategic partners and successfully assisted in sourcing equity and flow through financing. IR Pro Communications Inc. provides additional exposure for clients through social media channels, news dissemination channels and video interviews