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Eric S. Mettler, President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Mettler has more than 28 years of engineering, manufacturing and executive management experience leading cost effective business operations, including general management with P & L responsibility, project management, contracts management, financial management, business development, research & development, engineering, product development, high and low volume manufacturing, supply chain management, and quality assurance.
He brings a consistent record of dynamic leadership, hands-on, results oriented management, and on-time and on-budget performance. He has been successful in two prior start-up experiences: Power Technologies Inc., an integrator of advanced power and water desalination equipment solutions, and Manufacturing Technologies Corporation (MTC), a water desalination equipment company. Prior to MTC, Mr. Mettler built a 20-year record of achievement with GenCorp Aerojet which included a division turn-around, and management of the Titan Liquid Rocket Engine Division ($600M annual sales, 600 employees and the largest and most successful division within Aerojet), where as General Manager he led the development, production, sales and market launch of products for the Division while significantly reducing product and overhead costs. He is an inventor of issued and pending patents on fuel cell technology and the architect of Altergy’s manufacturing technology breakthroughs and high volume production processes.
Mr. Mettler holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Production, Operations, and Systems Management from California State University-Sacramento. His post-graduate work includes completion of most of the MBA program at California State University-Sacramento, and completion of the Advanced Management Program, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA, and the Executive Management Program at the UC-Davis Graduate School of Management. In addition, he has completed professional education and development programs such as Frontline Leadership, American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) CIRM, the JCIT Demand Flow College, Sales and Operations Planning, Master Scheduling, Enterprise Resource Planning, Material Requirements Planning, Capacity Requirements Planning (Oliver Wight Companies and RD Garwood) and Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma courses. | 