Hydrogen Engine Center, Inc. takes pride in its employees. Below are the members of the management team. Feel free to take a few minutes to get to know those behind the Oxx Power® brand.
Ted Hollinger - President
Ted Hollinger started his career in 1964 at Fairchild Semiconductor as a digital integrated circuit designer. In 1969, he joined the design team at Advanced Micro Devices where he also designed integrated circuits. In 1973 he joined Amdahl Computer to head their computer memory system design effort. In 1975, Mr. Hollinger retired and served as a consultant on integrated circuit design and processing to Lockheed Missiles and Space and Linkabit Corp. In 1978, he joined Siliconix as applications manager for all integrated circuits and in 1979 he became the Chief VMOS Engineer.
In 1984, Mr. Hollinger founded Advanced Power Technology (“APT”), a power semiconductor company in Bend, Oregon. Mr. Hollinger holds several key power device patents now assigned to APT. In 1988, he founded Advanced Power Controls - ONSITE as a subsidiary of Pacific Power & Light. He moved the company to Tennessee in 1991 and incorporated it under the name APC-ONSITE. Over the course of his career, Mr. Hollinger has been granted more than a dozen patents. Mr. Hollinger joined Ecostar in November of 2000 as the Director of Power Conversion Engineering, and from 2001 to 2002, he was Vice President of Power Conversion at Ballard Power Systems. In 2003, Mr. Hollinger founded HEC Iowa and presently serves as its Chairman and President.
Bruce Jensen - Acting Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Jensen became HEC's Acting Chief Financial Officer in June, 2009. He graduated from Iowa State University in July, 1979 with a B.S. in Industrial Administration with a major in accounting. He received his CPA certificate in March, 1991. Prior to working with HEC, he worked with a local CPA firm for 30 years and was a partner in that firm for 22 years. Currently he and his wife Cindi are operating his tax and accounting practice in Algona, Iowa. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Iowa Society of Certified Public Accountants.