OPT names George Kirby as president and CEO

January 6, 2015

Ocean Power Technologies announced that its Board of Directors has appointed George H. Kirby as President, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and Director effective January 20, 2015.

Kirby has more than 22 years of experience in the global energy and infrastructure sector including the power and industrial facility sector.

He was most recently Senior Vice President for the energy business unit at AECOM Technology Corporation, where he and his team provided full power generation and power delivery project life-cycle services in the U.S. energy market.

He is a registered Professional Engineer and holds eight U.S. and European patents in power generation technology.

Terence J. Cryan, Chairman of the Board of OPT, stated: “The Board was very deliberate in its search process to find a candidate with the right experience and know-how to advance OPT’s wave-energy technology to generate reliable, clean and environmentally-beneficial electricity. OPT has an aggressive development plan for 2015 that includes multiple buoy deployments so it is fortunate we have reached agreement with George to fill this role at the start of the year.”

[mappress mapid=”90″]

Image: Ocean Power Technologies