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Global Clean Energy has named two new executives to its team. Photo via Getty Images

A Houston-based developer of green technology projects is expanding its management team by partnering with an affiliate of C2 Industrial Group.

Global Clean Energy's joint venture aims to “build, develop and manage sustainable clean energy projects in various forms while reducing negative carbon emissions or footprints” according to a news release.

James Wiseman has been named as chief legal officer and Jacob Sacks has been named as CFO. They join the current management team of George Azimov, president, and Chris Boll, chief revenue officer and director. Together, the goal is to engage professionals from C2 Industrial Group to present and acquire business opportunities that align with the goals and values of Global Clean Energy.

“GCEI's mission and purpose could not be more critical in today's trying times,“ Wiseman says in a news release. “We must build sustainable businesses and industries. We must reduce the carbon footprint of business and industry. We must invest in green supply chains and emerging technologies. We need to think and act with clarity of purpose. That's what we intend to do as we look to acquire and build projects for GCEI that fulfill that mission.”

Wiseman recently served as principal and chief legal officer of C2 Industrial based in Joshua, Texas. He has over 25 years of experience buying, developing and operating real estate in New York and Texas with Cayuga Capital Management LLC. Sacks recently served as principal and CFO of C2 Industrial.

“We are pleased to be working with GCEI to combine and bring scale to companies that both have strong growth prospects and provide material benefits to the environment through their operations, in a prudent and financially responsible manner,” Sacks adds in the release.

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The company is known for its Orbital AI platform, which is tailored for the energy sector. Photo via solutions.kbr.com

London-based AI firm Applied Computing has announced a $20 million Series A round and a new office in Houston.

The new Bayou City office is Applied Computing’s first in the United States and part of its North American expansion. The company is known for its Orbital AI platform, which is tailored for energy operations.

The funding round was led by Houston-based KBR Inc., with participation from San Francisco-based Databricks Ventures. KBR’s investment was first announced in March.

KBR and Applied Computing have also entered into a multi-year agreement to deliver exclusive AI products for the energy sector. KBR already has integrated Orbital into its INSITE 3.0 platform for energy projects, and is also using the product for ammonia production.

Applied Computing’s Orbital platform combines physics-grounded intelligence with models across chemical engineering, time-series forecasting and language, according to the company. The system analyzes sensor readings and can recognize a facility’s equipment constraints and operator activity. The platform can also allow technicians to run simulations of how a change to a facility could affect the rest of its operations.

According to TechCrunch, Applied Computing will use the $20 million to further explore projects and deployments with the energy sector, hire engineering and research positions, and continue to expand internationally, potentially into the Middle East.

The company is also working on deals with a major U.S. stream operator, TechCrunch reports. And Applied Computing shared on LinkedIn that it plans to announce its first partnership with a major European oil company in the coming weeks.

“Yesterday we showed Orbital live in deployments at our demo day at the Energy Institute in London,” Callum Adamson, CEO and co-founder of Applied Computing, posted on LinkedIn on July 16. “Today, we're announcing the capital to scale it globally as well as the launch of our new offices in Houston and Bangalore. In the weeks following, there will be more announcements on our progress, partnerships and deployments.”

The company opened its Bangalore offices in December.

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