About us

Who we are

Crosstown H2R

We are passionate about decarbonisation and to deliver a sustainable environment that future generations can enjoy

Crosstown H2R (est. 2022) is a spin-off from Crosstown Power (now in its 21st year of operations) and is a product oriented business for delivering customised H2R® Burners for gas turbine decarbonisation and NOx reduction.

Crosstown H2R is manned by business & engineering  professionals who have been developing and delivering gas turbines and associated combustion burners for over four decades:

  • The team previously developed and deployed a 40% hydrogen combustion system (1997) which operated for over 15 years
  • The team has successfully developed & demonstrated hydrogen burners with 100% H₂ content in gas turbines
  • The team has recently launched gas turbines which operate in the field with over 50% hydrogen
  • The H2R® team has previously worked with GT manufacturers such as ABB, ALSTOM, GE, Rolls-Royce and SIEMENS

Our team

Prith Harasgama | H2R®

Dr. Prith Harasgama

Co-CEO

PhD Astro- & Aeronautical Engineering

Deloitte, Wood Group,
ABB, Alstom

Manoj Harasgama

S. Manoj Harasgama

Co-CEO

M.A. Acc.&Finance & M.Sc. Int’l Mgt.

JOIN.com, Treatwell, Groupon, adidas, Shell

Wolfgang Kappis

Wolfgang Kappis

Chief Engineer

M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering

GE, Alstom,
ABB

Paul Young | H2R®

Paul Young

Head of Business Development

B.Sc. In Mechanical Engineering

GE, Alstom,
GEC

Franklin Génin

Dr. Franklin Génin

Senior Engineer

PhD Aerospace
Engineering

Alten, GE, Alstom,
Georgia Tech

Jaan Hellat

Dr. Jaan Hellat

CTO

 

PhD Chemical
Engineering

Alstom, ABB


Tom Saquet

Tom Saquet

Head of Finance

 

MBA & CPA

TS Advisory Services, Amara Communications, Arthur Andersen, Vodafone

Judith Baumberger

Judith Baumberger

Human Capital

 

Galina Shokhova

Galina Shokhova

Communications

 

Our experience

Dr. Prith Harasgama

Co-CEO

Experienced CEO & Top Level manager in development of major power projects. Due diligence for mergers & acquisitions. Re-structuring and turnaround of companies and Post Merger Integration. Lean/Six-Sigma implementation in manufacturing facilities in the EU, Switzerland & India. Environmental improvement projects completed in the EU. Accountable for multi-million Euro businesses as P&L responsible for extending market penetration and value generation for ensuring solid profitability. Extensive international & Board level experience in the power sector.

S. Manoj Harasgama

Co-CEO

Manoj has accumulated 15 years of experience in venture and venture capital (VC) building, scaling and selling large companies across Europe. As an entrepreneur and investor he has built and invested in startups predominantly in Berlin, Amsterdam and Zurich with multiple funding rounds and exits to his name. He is also a guest lecturer on Growth and Entrepreneurship at some of the best ranked business schools in the world including the University of St. Gallen (HSG), ESADE Lull University in Barcelona and RSM (Rotterdam School of Management).

Wolfgang Kappis

Chief Engineer

Experienced professional with decades of experience in the development of gas turbine and  power plant equipment, Technology and R&D programmes and especially upgrades to gas turbine development and program management for challenging products and components. Responsible for multi-site management for engineering of gas turbines in Europe and the USA. Manufacturing and operational control of production of gas turbine equipment in Europe.

Paul Young

Head of Business Development

Experienced professional in leading and delivering projects in the Power industry. Engineering and R&D projects both for new products and for execution on customer site. Commercial and business management of customer projects and of product lines. Leading Digital engineering and software teams. Extensive experience leading multi-national and globally distributed teams. 

Tom Saquet

Head of Finance

Finance director with international experience. Feasibility studies for new ventures and due diligence in M&A projects. Development of Business plans and Investment memorandum for finance acquisition from banks and investors. IFRS compliant. Power, Renewables & Mobile sectors. Extensive international experience at CFO level.

Dr. Franklin Génin

Senior Engineer

Experienced professional with over 15 years in the analysis & layout of combustion systems, burners, and combustion chambers for Natural Gas & Hydrogen fuels. Extensive industrial experience. Competencies include Design for Manufacture, Concurrent Engineering, and project management. Developed combustion systems and burners for ALSTOM (Switzerland) and MAN-Turbo (Germany) gas turbines for Ultra Low-NOx capability with operations with Natural Gas and hydrogen. Design for manufacturing with Additive Manufacturing (3D- Printing) processes. Lean/Six-Sigma capable. Holder of 15 international patents

Dr. Jaan Hellat

CTO

Leading edge professional with decades of experience in the development of power plant equipment, high technology impact R&D programmes and especially Combustion & Burner Technologies for challenging products and components. Developing & delivering Dry Low NOx solutions for over eight gas turbines implemented in the field. Lead combustion development and implementation in ABB, ALSTOM for over 20 years and launched six large scale gas turbines (40MW to 340MW). Lead the corporate R&D centre for ABB Combustion in Switzerland, developing burners for ABB (Switzerland) & ABB (Sweden, now part of Siemens Energy).  Gas Turbine Hall of Fame at ABB & ALSTOM. Best publication on combustions systems and burners at the International Gas Turbine Institute. Advisor General on Combustion at the Paul Scherer Institute in Switzerland, Combustion Advisor at the University of Darmstadt in Germany. Holder of 43 international patents.

Judith Baumberger

Human Capital

Top professional with over 30 years in multi-national companies. Responsible for HR strategy and implementations. Assessment of human capital. Profiling and coaching of human capital to align to company strategy and mission.  Coaching of CEO/Board Room executives. Former Chairperson of the Women’s Swiss Business Association.