John Grier, Chairman
Mr. Grier is the founder and President of Crimson Resource Management ("Crimson"), the parent company of Crimson Renewable Energy, L.P. ("CRE"). Before starting Crimson, Mr. Grier was employed at Mobil Oil Corp, where he held engineering and line supervisory field positions.
Mr. Grier has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and an MBA from Harvard University. Over the past 20 years, Mr. Grier has led Crimson as it has grown from a single oil production property numbering a few wells to nearly 400 producing wells, multiple gas distillation and processing plants, a 350-mile+ pipeline network for petroleum products, and other petroleum related operations such as materials handling, asphalt production and oil field services. .
Harry Simpson, President
Mr. Simpson is a senior operating executive with 19 years of broad management, financial and technology experience. He has served in a variety of capacities including President, COO, CFO, and Senior VP of Marketing and Business Development. Highlights of his prior experience include managing foreign exchange derivatives trading operations that transacted over $350 billion annually and founding an online financial services company and leading it through multiple rounds of financing and a public listing. In addition to his significant early-stage company development and fund-raising experience, he has also been active as an investor in and consultant to several early-stage technology companies.
Mr. Simpson is a graduate of Indiana University with a BS in Finance. As a co-founder and President of Crimson Renewable Energy, L.P. Mr. Simpson is focused on financial and operational management, and also leads its sales, marketing and business development activities.
Jim Hamilton, Vice President, Engineering and Operations
Since graduating from Texas A&M University in 1961, Mr. Hamilton has developed a 45-year career in the oil and gas industry as a leading process engineer. The bulk of his career has focused on natural gas processing where he directed the design, construction and start-up of over 20 gas processing projects.
For nearly 20 years, Mr. Hamilton has been a principal in various companies involved in the design and development of gas processing equipment and end-to-end modular gas processing plants. In the past 15 years, Mr. Hamilton has also designed and developed glycol and condensate processing plants. Mr. Hamilton has extensive experience in the fabrication of modular skid mounted processing systems,and has also developed a unique patent pending process for dilutive distillation of glycols and glycerin. Mr. Hamilton is responsible for the design, construction and technical operations of Crimson Renewable Energy's renewable fuels production assets.
Dr. Scott Sportsman, Manager, Engineering and Quality Assurance
Dr. Sportsman received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 2002. He subsequently worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, focusing on performing difficult liquid-phase separations through the hybridization of innovative approaches and conventional processes, such as membranes and advanced centrifugal separators used in nuclear separations processes.
At Crimson Renewable Energy, Dr. Sportsman is applying his separations expertise to the understanding and development of the biodiesel production process through the optimization of the transesterification reaction and product separation, as well as the requisite separations in the mono-alkyl ester/water wash and glycerin/alcohol/water separations. Dr. Sportsman also brings nearly 20 years of analytical laboratory experience to Crimson. This expertise is being applied to establish comprehensive laboratory and quality control protocols that ensure Crimson's biofuels meet or exceed industry standards for fuel quality, storage and handling.
