Dick Thompson Email & Phone Number

Vienna, Va, Us

I have been leading Radical Combustion Technology's team to commercialize a novel, patented internal combustion engine technologies that will substantially solve engine stability and exhaust emissions problems vexing the natural gas pipeline industry for decades.Full-scale engine lab testing has demonstrated this retrofittable solution dramatically improves engine stability and cuts pollutants in large natural gas engines (referred to as legacy-integral) used to move natural gas along pipelines. We have accumulated over 4,000 hours of runtime in field tests. Several owner/operator gas companies are requesting proposals and RCT is in the process of preparing a half-dozen quotes for emissions retrofit projects on various models of legacy engines.The total addressable gas transmission domestic market is over $10 billion.This is an exciting time for RCT. We are at an inflection point as our multi-year development cycle draws to a close and we shift from a development-stage to an operating company… 2023 is our breakout year!

•Ferreted out market opportunity to solve the natural gas pipeline industry’s most urgent technical problem: reducing pollutant emissions from natural gas-fueled Legacy-integral engines.•Brought together two complementary, world-class engine companies in Joint Venture .•Cobbled together series of engine tests to validate technology.•Engaged target pipeline customers on benefits of technical solution.•Cultivated strategic investors; elicited ‘placeholder’ valuation for IP technology .•Built commercialization plan, timetables and technical sales ‘white paper’.•Garnered funding for first year of operation.

As 'deal' CEO, surfaced proprietary $100M aerospace aftermarket subsidiary buyout opportunity. Crafted investment thesis, business & operational plans; recruited team; performed due diligence, engaged private-equity bidding partner and bid.

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Engaged by NYC-based private-equity firm to save and transform an “in extremis” TX-based aerospace company acquired in a leveraged buyout. Secured $250 million contract with major aerospace prime.

Founded and led private-equity sponsored team in buildup to create a $300M leader in the fragmented wireless mobile asset industry .

Chantilly, Virginia, Us

Recruited to re-invigorate stalled, 350 employee, family-owned business. Engaged team, crafted buildup strategy and plan, with clearly articulated scaling opportunities, to build $250 million nationwide leader in the sector. Began executing plan by acquiring and integrating multiple companies in an industry consolidation of domestic real-estate property inspection industry.

Washington, Dc, Us

Navy Reserve part-time assignments included command of multiple units and duty with multiple US and NATO command operating staff organizations.

Recruited to save and reinvent 300-employee, public, custom software and IT services company. Transformed and grew company as an enterprise software player resulting in order-of-magnitude jump in market capitalization. Simultaneously confronted with disintermediation and disruptive technology; positioned for an "exit" event.

Transformed public manufacturing company to a technology high flier by acquiring a startup telecommunications product business and dramatically growing it domestically and internationally resulting in 10-fold increase in market capitalization.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Bsae, Aerospace Engineering & French

Mba, General Management

Mme, Engineering & Mathematics