Roy Bant

Roy has a Mechanical Engineering Degree from Temple University, 1988, and an MBA in International Business from LaSalle University 1999.

Roy has been in the industrial gas business for thirty-seven years.  He started his career in engineering of complex Industrial gas systems leading to project management and the building of air separation plants that make the bulk products of nitrogen, oxygen, and argon, as well as managing Steam Methane Reformer (SMR) hydrogen projects throughout the US.  In addition to SMR for hydrogen production, many bulk gaseous and liquid hydrogen installations for utilization internally (ie cylinder filling plants) and at customers sites.

As of 2015, Roy has been entrenched in the Hydrogen Energy Business which includes transportation (light medium and heavy duty), warehousing, electric power generation, blending in natural gas, aviation, rail, and hydrogen at scale.

Roy has managed finding and permitting locations for light duty hydrogen stations including signing leases, hub and spoke for delivery of hydrogen, building of hydrogen trans-fills (liquid to gas-450 bar), and adding hydrogen liquefaction for many locations in the US.  Roy has also worked with many electrolyzer and fuel cell manufacturers of varying technologies.

Roy has structured deals, had off-take agreements signed, brokered deals between hydrogen consumers and hydrogen developers.

Roy has worked with the OEMs (Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Hyzon, Nikola, Komatsu, Cummins, and many others), plus many companies that want to start moving by rail, and for fueling fuel cell locomotives

Roy has worked with many EPC’s (Black and Veach, Kiewit, Sundt, Technip, plus many others).