Our Team, Our Mission

A leader in the transition to renewables and a sustainable energy system, Rob Morgan has 30 years of experience in global energy markets, including more than 8 gigawatts (GW) of project transactions worldwide representing more than $5 billion in value. He has been instrumental in building companies across the renewable energy value chain, from solar, wind & energy storage. He is now leading the dynamic emerging market of combustion-free hydrogen and carbon-negative waste management.

Immediate past-CEO of General Electric’s Energy Storage business, Rob had global business unit responsibility from product development and procurement, through to construction and operations. He started his career with a 15-year stint at the AES Corporation, where he led business units as CEO/GM in Kazakhstan, Chile, and El Salvador. From 2004-2010, he co-founded and held executive roles at Agile Energy, Inc. and Ausra, Inc. focusing on corporate strategy, fund-raising, and project development activities. More recently Rob spent 4 years at RES Americas as Chief Strategy Officer and EVP for New Business before taking on the role of CEO, Energy Storage at GE.

Rob holds a B.A. in Economics and M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University. He is on the Emeritus Board of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and served on the board of Grid-Net, Inc. for 10 years. Rob is currently an advisor to Energy Exploration Technologies, a company with the mission to become a worldwide leader in the global transition to sustainable energy by deploying breakthrough direct lithium extraction technologies and more effective energy storage solutions.

Scott Gardner has 30 years of experience in the energy and infrastructure sectors, focused on investments, project finance, and project development. His career has spanned projects and transactions in diverse areas including conventional and renewable power, renewable fuels, waste-to-energy, carbon capture and sequestration, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and midstream, and ports and transportation. Scott is responsible for driving new business development and commercial transactions for H Cycle, including siting, waste sourcing, and hydrogen sales and contracting, as well as joint venture initiatives in Japan and Korea. He also supports the company’s financing and regulatory initiatives.

Previously, Scott was President of Gardner Infrastructure Advisors, a consultancy that advised infrastructure funds and strategic companies on investments and development projects in the renewables space. Prior to that, he was a Senior Vice President in Private Infrastructure at Partners Group, a Swiss private equity firm, where he led Partners Group’s investment in, and served on the board of, Superior Pipeline Company, a natural gas midstream business, as well as its proposed acquisition of the second largest energy-from-waste business in the US. Prior to joining Partners Group, Scott developed LNG infrastructure projects, including LNG marine terminals and customized fuel delivery systems, for Oaktree Highstar’s portfolio company WesPac Midstream. Before WesPac, he was a Managing Director with US Renewables Group, a renewable energy-focused private equity firm, where among other transactions, he led an investment in Novo Development, a developer of waste-to-power projects. Prior to USRG, he held various roles in mergers and acquisitions, project development, asset management, and business restructuring over 12 years with global electricity company AES Corporation.

Scott holds an MBA in Finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and an AB with honors in engineering and environmental studies from Dartmouth College. 

Karim Ibrik leads H Cycle’s technology platform and is intimately involved in the process of technology design, selection, optimization, and implementation. Additionally, he looks after key regulation aspects for the company, including life cycle assessments, and solid waste management supply strategy.

Karim brings extensive experience in thermal conversion, hydrogen and syngas having worked in Shell in a number of engineering and technical management roles, with a focus on syngas production and gas-to-liquids. During his time in Shell, Karim gained hands-on operational experience in novel chemical plants having led technical teams in numerous investigations and major crisis recovery efforts.

Additionally, Karim has advised a number of energy startups in the Bay Area and was a Director at Azimuth Capital Management, where he led investment origination and strategy in the firm’s low-carbon fuels vertical.

Karim holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA and MS in Energy & Resources from Stanford University.

Dan Baublis has more than 30 years of executive leadership and technical management of power and energy projects around the globe.  Focusing on project development, engineering and delivery, he combines a risk-based approach to contracting with cultural attunement and a strong ethical underpinning. Being instrumental in the constancy of change in the energy industry, Dan helped manage the shift from fossil fuels, bio-fuels and renewables, to energy storage and now driving the energy transition toward hydrogen.  

At InterGen, as SVP of Engineering and Construction, Dan managed development engineering and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) delivery, bringing more than 15,000 MW of combined-cycle and fossil power projects through construction and operations around the world, with many projects in excess of $1B, including projects in Turkey, China, Australia, Mexico, the UK and Netherlands.  At CH2M Hill, as EVP of Global Power operations, Dan led a group of more than 100 professionals around the world, guiding new product introductions as well as spearheading work into new territories in both engineering services and EPC delivery. First-of-a-kind projects included a $1B, multi-fuel, multi-technology island power plant for a greenfield offshore LNG project in Australia. He conceptualized and drove the development of numerous business processes and supporting computer platforms, organizing and streamlining communications across a geographically and technologically diverse set of plants, enabling consistent reporting metrics and concise communications. 

Dan’s experience working for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), EPC and engineering firms as well as owner/developers provides him with an unmatched perspective as to how all parties approach successful projects.  As Chief Engineering Officer, he provides the technical management of the projects from development through operations, maintaining vendor and contractor relationships and building H Cycle’s team of engineering, construction and operations personnel.  

A Registered Professional Engineer, Dan holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an M.S degree in Engineering Management from Drexel University.

Taylor Huff has more than 10 years of experience in the hydrogen and energy industry. He brings a diverse mix of commercial and technical acumen in project development, technology commercialization, new venture/concept development and asset mergers and acquisitions.

As co-founder and ex-CEO of EvolOH, he built an electrolyzer technology platform which is funded by Breakthrough Energy and ARPA-E. Prior to that, Taylor started his career at BP developing projects across the USA and Latin America, including assets where natural gas is supplied to produce hydrogen for ammonia and methanol plants. At BP, he also supported successful M&A to develop new business units in Mexico and Brazil.  

Taylor holds an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, an M.S. Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. Chemical Engineering from University of Oklahoma.

Wes Lien is a clean energy professional with over seven years of experience acquiring, developing, financing and constructing power plants at leading renewable energy developers. He brings to H Cycle a deep skillset in power and infrastructure, and is leveraging his expertise in finance to support the commercial deployment of novel solutions to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors.

Wes began his career at SunEdison, where he participated in a rotational program with exposure to multiple business units across the Distributed Generation vertical. As part of the Operations team, he oversaw utility interconnection applications and investor technical due diligence for solar projects in California, before transitioning into a finance role to manage commercial bank investment processes for project portfolios across the US. Wes then joined Pattern Energy Group in a project finance capacity, where he structured construction-to-term amortizing debt and tax equity transactions for clean energy infrastructure across multiple geographies. During his time at Pattern he successfully closed on nearly 1,000 megawatts of new wind, solar and transmission projects in North America totaling $1 billion in value, as well as managed refinancing activities for Pattern’s operating portfolios in Canada and Japan. In 2020 Wes transitioned into a newly formed Strategic Development division, in which he worked closely with Pattern’s senior executives to evaluate and execute on corporate investment opportunities in emerging clean energy sectors.

Wes holds Bachelor’s degrees in Chemistry and Environmental Sciences from Northwestern University. He is a Fellow of the Clean Energy Leadership Institute’s 2020 San Francisco chapter.