Paul Christoffersen is the business driver and strategy architect of STAC. Paul is a former Danish Diplomat as well as a Serial Entrepreneur having started 7 companies parallel to his career as a corporate executive. Paul has a rich diversified business background having worked in SME's, larger companies such as Rockwool, Rolls-Royce, in the international AA-ISP industry association. Paul's life-long driver has been focused on not accepting mediocrity nor current technology if there is a better solution. As a non-conformist Paul has made unconventional initiatives that has not only resulted in successfully implementation of new technology and practices in big civil engineering projects but also led to successful government-government contract. H
Gunnar Minds has 50 years of experience in the cooling and refrigeration industry behind him. He was awarded the European Commissions Environmental Prize for his discovery of using water-as-the-refrigerant in large scale industrial cooling in 1996. Having joined STAC Technology team officially in January 2020 Gunnar's vast know-how has contributed and accelerated STACs product development in record time. Gunnar is retiring in March, 2024 near the age of 87 transferring to the role of Emeritus Engineer supporting the engineering team on an ad hoc basis as well as participating in the Advisory Board of STAC Technology.
Gitte is an experienced CFO with previous work experience from BDO, one of Denmark largest Auditor companies where she managed 3 regional offices. Gitte is also an entrepreneur as well as a professional investor. Gitte is passionate about caring for the environment and about bringing new solutions to the table.
Bobby Svenning, MBA has a long track record from working with Pepsi Cola, London Business School and Rolls-Royce where he ended his career as Sales Director Aviation before joining the STAC Team.
Oskar Minds, Mechanical Engineer with special focus on development of turbo compressors and implementation of new materials technology.
Serkan Akbulut, Mechanical Engineer with special focus on development of compressors and implementation of AI, machine learning and IoT.
Christian Midtgaard, M. Sc. Eng. has 30+ years of experience from developing, making and testing compressors at HV Turbo, Siemens,Howden Turbo.
Tim is STAC’s expert on negotiation strategies, corporate governance, and international economic development. He held senior positions at the World Bank for more than two decades, including serving as Chief Spokesman and Director of Information for most of the 1990s. He was the founder of and continues to teach in the Oxford Programme on Negotiation at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, where is an Associate Fellow. He is also Professor of Management Practice at Peking University in Beijing, China.
Tim is the chairman of TCA Limited, a boutique negotiation and ESG consultancy and is the founder of the Small Countries Financial Management Centre in the Isle of Man and of the IOM-SVG Education Programme, a charity that provides scholarships to students from the Caribbean nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines to study in the Isle of Man.
Tim brings to STAC extensive experience of and commitment to ESG. He helped to establish the Global Environment Facility in 1991, played a key coordinating role among UN agencies at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, was a founder of the World Commission on Dams in 1997, and subsequently managed the Asia Water Awareness Programme for the Asian Development Bank between 2003 and 2007. He chaired panels at the World Water Forum in Kyoto in 2003 and in Mexico City in 2006 and moderated the “Eye on Asia Day” at World Water Week in Stockholm in 2013. He also served on the board of the Manila-based Water Links charity.
In 2014 he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by the late Queen Elizabeth II for “services to international financial management”
https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/about-us/people/tim-cullen-mbe
Kevin Dare, Managing Director and Chairman of the COGRI Group.
Kevin is the Chair of STACs Advisory Board on global go-2-market strategies.
Kevin has been involved with high tolerance floors for over 25 years and is Chairman of the CoGri Group of companies. As well as developing his own methods of constructing ‘Super Flat’ floors’ he is the inventor of the Laser Grinder® and the family of Face Digital Floor surveying instruments, including the Profileograph, Prop II meter, the DIN meter and the F Speed Reader.
Kevin is a founder member, immediate past Chairman and on the board of governors of the UK’s Association of Concrete Industrial Flooring Contractors (ACIFC). Kevin was also on the working party of the latest edition of the Concrete Society’s Technical Report 34, being instrumental in developing the flatness specifications within this standard.
As well as running a global group of specialist companies designing, specifying, testing, constructing and rectifying high tolerance floors, he has given advice to working parties of UK, European and ISO standards on matters of floor surface regularity.
Kevin Dare could be regarded as the link between the Materials Handling Industry and the Industrial Flooring Industry; understanding the requirements of one and the capabilities of the other.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Michael Kauffeld, born in 1962, studied mechanical engineering with emphasis on refrigeration and air conditioning at the University of Hannover, Germany and at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. He holds a Master and Doctorate degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Hannover. Since 1986, he has worked with a variety of development projects within the field of refrigeration. First at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, USA, where he investigated energy savings through the use of zeotropic refrigerant mixtures in air conditioners and heat pumps. Then at the University of Hannover, Germany, where he continued to work with refrigerant mixtures and in addition studied the use of air as refrigerant. From 1992 to 1994, he was responsible for various heat exchanger development projects at a Norwegian aluminium manufacturer. He joined the Danish Technological Institute (DTI) in 1994, where he worked as project manager. Most of his work at DTI has focused on natural working fluids such as air, water, ammonia, carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons and ice slurry. For four years, he acted as leader of the Ice Slurry Center, which joined the forces of fifteen companies, a university institute and the Danish Technological Institute in order to investigate the potentials of ice slurry in refrigeration systems. Since September 2002, he is professor for refrigeration technology at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, where he continuous his research with natural refrigerants, mini channel heat exchangers and ice slurry. Since 1997, he serves on the UNEP Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heat Pumps Technical Options Committee (RTOC) and served on the UNEP TEAP Task Force on Global Warming. In 2018, Michael Kauffeld founded the Steinbeis Transfer Center Refrigeration and Air Conditioning – ST2K which supports industry in the introduction and application of natural refrigerants. Michael Kauffeld is founding vice president of the Career in Refrigeration – CaRe working group of the International Institute of Refrigeration – IIR. He is past-president of the IIR Ice Slurry Working Group (now Phase Change Materials Working Group) and of commission B2 of the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR). Michael Kauffeld has written more than 100 scientific publications and filed several patents. In 2023, Michael Kauffeld was elevated to Fellow ASHRAE for his substantial contributions in HVAC& in education, research and consultation, publications, presentations and mentoring.
Pär Dalin is an international recognised expert in the field of District Cooling advising UN and the EU Commission. Pär is also the founder of DEVCCO an international consulting house in the field of District heating and cooling.
Experienced postdoc with a demonstrated history of working in clinical research. . Skilled in Molecular Biology and Cell Culture. Strong research professional with a Diplom (Msc) degree in Biochemistry from Freie Universität Berlin. Coach and Professional Pilates reformer trainer. Maren's contribution to STAC Technology will be in the medical field
Marketing management, serial investor, trader and business angel with focus on tech, blockchain and energy industries. Daniel brings the following to STAC's table; professional expertise in risc assessment and probabilities, decision-making under uncertainty, financial bankroll management, strategic thinking and planning, people skills and negotiation abilities, resilience and stress management .
From the very start, STAC has been blessed with early support from extra-ordinary accomplished people from all over the world. The people on STAC's international advisory boards offer a fountain of wisdom, hands-on experience and networks complementing and adding to the competence of our daily management team.
STAC is consistently adding new members to our Advisory Board providing technical and or business competence, experience and subject matter expertise. We encourage enthusiastic people, companies and organizations to contact and join us.
Cooling and the Sustainable Development Goals
Access to cooling (zero-emission) is directly linked to the achievement of several of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): good health and well-being (3), affordable and clean energy (7), industry (9), sustainable communities (11) and climate action (13) as well as (17) Partnerships - Fighting global warming can only be done through partnerships