Management

Sargas has a team of people with extensive experience in the areas of technology development and commercialization in the energy and chemical sectors; strategy development; finance, and public-private project management. The team is expanding rapidly. The current key individuals are:

Henrik Fleischer, Chairman of the Board & CEO
Henrik Fleischer is a graduate of the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy and Vienna University and has served as commanding officer of a missile carrying fast patrol boat. Henrik is an entrepreneur in the maritime sector with extensive experience as agent, owner and developer

 

Dermot Liddy, Chief Operating Officer

Dermot Liddy formerly managed the Clinton Foundation's Clean Energy Group at the Clinton Climate Initiative. He was responsible for the Foundation's extensive global work in the carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) field and Renewable Energy. He has been a senior executive and co-founder of companies in both the biotech field and the renewable energy sector.

 

Knut Børseth, Chief Innovation Officer
Knut Børseth is the co-inventor of the Sargas technology. Knut is a naval architect and holds a large number of patents in the fields of floating production vessels and oil field development. He was awarded a technical honorary degree from Science and Technical Research of Norway (NTNF) in 1989

 

Dr. Tor Christensen, Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Tor Christensen holds a Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University. He is co-inventor of several Sargas patents along with Knut Børseth. Tor has formerly been head of R&D at Norsk Hydro Herøya and has extensive experience as a senior executive and process consultant in the field of design and simulations, process evaluation and optimization, all critical to the development of Sargas’ technical capabilities

 

Dr. Herman De Meyer, Head of Process Engineering
Dr. Herman De Meyer holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Leuven and has more than 20 years of expertise in chemical plant engineering and mobilization. He has been responsible for cutting edge projects where tens of millions of dollars have been saved by advanced engineering approaches

 

Paul Gandola, President, Sargas Inc., USA

Paul Gandola, President of Sargas, Inc. is involved in Sargas' U.S. business development activities.  He is a member of the bars of Ohio and Pennsylvania, and has worked with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, as well as various private practice areas.  He has served as counsel and a consultant to the Ohio Aerospace Institute, and has managed projects in collaboration with NASA

 

S. J. Lee, Sargas, Director Korean Operations, Seoul, Korea

S. J. Lee is one of the pioneers in the Korean Shipbulding industry with large achievements therein

 

Martin Rödén, Director of Business Development 
Martin Rödén holds a Master of Science specializing in Energy and International marketing from Chalmers Institute of Technology in Sweden. He has an extensive international career with leading management positions in Sweden, France, Germany and China in different technologies such as software development; telecom systems; energy saving & control systems, and electronics