The Principles in Mercurius are made up of a mix of seasoned professionals.

Karl Seck, President and CEO

Karl has spent most of his career in the petroleum refining field as a process engineer. He has held design, techinical services, optimization, and operations management positions with three oil companies. Karl started his own process consulting service 8 years ago. He received a BS Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kansas. LinkedIn Profile.

Michael Vevera, CFO

Michael has started-up and run successful companies in Japan and Australia. He has a degree in International Finance from Oregon State and a Masters in International Marketing from University of Technology, Sydney. LinkedIn Profile.

Knud Balsev, VP of Business Development

Knud has 25+ years of international business development experience. He has a BSC from the Danish Technical University.

Mercurius is fortunate to have a distinguished board of advisors for both business and technology.

Ed Olson

As part of our ongoing research activities with the EERC, Ed will be advising us on chemical and technical matters. He is the primary inventor of our core technology which we licensed through the EERC Foundation. Ed is a Senior Research Advisor at the EERC, where his current research is in the development of biorefinery concepts for the production of fuels and chemicals from biomass sources and in the development of mercury sorbents for coal-fired utilities. Dr. Olson's principal areas of interest and expertise include carbon and coal structure and reactivity, mercury sorption chemistry, enzyme-catalyzed esterification and desulfurization reactions, chromatography, organic trace analysis, mass spectrometry, and organic spectroscopy. Dr. Olson received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry and Physics from the California Institute of Technology. Prior to his current position, he taught at South Dakota State University, the University of Notre Dame, and Idaho State University. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Chemical Society (ACS) and Sigma Xi, and is the past chairman of the Division of Fuel Chemistry of the ACS. He has authored or coauthored over 200 publications.

Atul Deshmane

Atul is currently President and CEO of Whole Energy Fuels. His bio can be seen here.

Orion Polinsky

Orion is currently Director of Research at Whole Energy Fuels. His bio can be seen here.

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