18-Feb-2009

Bob Longman joins ACAL Energy as VP Engineering

ACAL Energy Ltd. has today announced the appointment of Bob Longman as VP Engineering. Bob joins ACAL Energy from Plasmon Plc, and brings extensive experience of taking leading edge technologies to market. At ACAL Energy, Bob will direct and deliver the engineering stages of the company’s plan to exploit its ground breaking low cost fuel cell systems.

Bob Longman’s experience includes management roles at Tube Investments, where he worked on the manufacture of heat exchange systems for nuclear reactors, and PA Consulting, where he was Engineering Group Manager. As well as corporate research and engineering responsibilities, Bob has managed quality systems at several of his companies.  Bob worked in Canada for a number of years before returning to the UK, and has a degree in Mechanical Sciences from Cambridge University.   

“I’m delighted to be joining ACAL Energy at this exciting time in its development, and to working with this innovative fuel cell technology which has such important potential application”, said Bob Longman. Chief Executive Officer, Dr SB Cha said, “We are really pleased to welcome Bob to our company. His experience will be invaluable as we address the engineering challenges of bringing product to market”.   

ACAL Energy’s technology is based on a novel platinum-free cathode technology called FlowCath®. The company plans to introduce a 1kW demonstration system in 2009.
This appointment comes on the back of the successful completion of a recent £3.3 million fund raising round.