October 2004

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Fuel Cells Canada has appointed Louise Comeau as its new president and CEO, taking over from Dr. Ron Britton who announced his retirement recently (H&FCL July 04). The announcement was made during the four-day Hydrogen & Fuel Cells 2004 Conference in Toronto. Ms. Comeau has served in various leadership positions for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Centre for Sustainable Community Development in Ottawa, and she is a recipient of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, awarded for distinguished service to outstanding Canadians ............Acumentrics Corp., a Westwood, MA-headquartered developer of solid oxide fuel cells and uninterruptible power supplies, has named Gary D. Simon as new president and CEO, succeeding the company’s founder Gary A. Mook who retired in late July after 10 years. Simon has been on Acumentrics’s board for the last four years, and he has been senior vice president of corporate strategy and business development at Northeast Utilities. In a second appointment, the company named John C. Cerulli as chief financial officer. Cerulli has been with the company since the start of the year, and he has more than 10 years of financial management expertise in both the public and private sectors.......Mark Cropper, until recently deputy editor of the British online journal “Fuel Cell Today,” has joined a specialist finance advisory firm in London, Turquoise International. Cropper expects to expand the firm’s fuel cell activities.