Concurrent Design, Hershal Kohut, Simtano

The Simtano Team

The SIMTANO team is made up of handpicked experts from selected industries including space, aerospace, information technologies, offshore oil and gas, and shipping. They are based throughout North America and Northern Europe. They come with extensive experience from their respective fields and are world-class Concurrent Design experts; the perfect combination for giving you real results.

	Knut I. Oxnevad
	Dagfinn Gunnarshaug
	Erik Rolland
	Bengt I. Skogvold
	Hershal Kohut
	Norm Ohren
	Per Kristiansen

Hershal Kohut

Hersh is a graduate of Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering. Additionally, he completed the Executive Business Management program at Stanford University. He is retired from Atlantic Richfield Company after a 30 year career in the petroleum industry. He has a wide scope of managerial experience. During his career Hersh held a number of refinery management positions, participated in long term planning , project development and executive leadership for the ARCO Products Company.

Hersh played a major roll in the development of two large cogeneration projects. One is a solid fuel fired 175 megawatt facility in Texas. The other is a 400 megawatt gas turbine/ waste heat combined cycle plant in southern California. Subsequent to the development of the California project, Hersh was the General Manager of the facility. In this position he developed and presented the company's position regarding cogeneration at the California Energy Commission, the California Public Utilities Commission and Industry associations.

Hersh’s most recent position with ARCO was President of ARCO Marine, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield Company. The company was responsible for the safe, efficient waterborne transportation of over 200 million barrels, annually, of crude oil and intermediate petroleum products. Hersh was ARCO’s primary marine representative in domestic and international shipping associations. He defined company positions on issues addressed by State and Federal regulatory agencies, citizen environmental groups and the United States Coast Guard. He was instrumental in the negations with a domestic ship yard to build the first US flagged tankers specifically designed for the transportation of crude oil from Alaska to the lower 48.