Jillian C. Evanko serves as Senior Advisor to Chart Industries, supporting the company through its acquisition by Baker Hughes. She previously served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Chart Industries, where she led the company’s transformation into a global leader in energy and industrial gas solutions. In her advisory role, Jill continues to support strategic continuity, customer and partner engagement, and integration readiness through close of the transaction.

Gerald F. Vinci is our President and Chief Human Resources Officer and has served in the CHRO capacity since December 5, 2016, when he joined the Company. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Vinci held various executive Human Resources roles at Dover Corporation from February 2013 to November 2016, including Vice President, Human Resources for Dover Engineered Systems and Dover Refrigeration and Food Equipment Segments. From 1997 to 2013, Mr. Vinci served in numerous Human Resources executive roles and as Senior Counsel for Harsco Corporation. Prior to that, Mr. Vinci was an attorney for Sunoco, Inc.

Brad is Senior Vice President of Executive Operations. Prior to this role, he was Vice President of Operations for North America, President of our E & C FinFans segment and served as VP & GM, Brazed Aluminum Heat Exchangers and Cold Boxes which includes the LaCrosse, Wisconsin, New Iberia, Louisiana and Franklin, Indiana locations. He was a team member and key contributor to the Chart Special Operations team since its inception in 2018. Brad has been with Chart since 2005 and also served in the role of General Manager of Energy & Chemicals New Iberia, Louisiana facility. Brad is a graduate of Park University and has completed courses at both Georgia Institute of Technology in Lean Manufacturing and Louisiana State University in Executive Development.

Joe is currently the Chief Technology Officer, responsible for Global Engineering, including Project Management tied to the Engineering Execution of the Commercial Order pipeline. Prior to this role he was the Chief Commercial Officer, responsible for strategically and profitably growing both our industrial gas and traditional energy markets as well as expanding our customer touchpoints in new specialty and clean energy markets and applications. Previously, Joe was the President of the Energy & Chemicals (E & C) segment, and held the roles of President of E & C Cryogenics and VP/GM of Chart’s Brazed Aluminum Heat Exchangers (BAHX) business.

Joe began his career as a Sales/Applications Engineer with ALTEC International in 1993. As ALTEC transitioned into Chart Energy & Chemicals, Mr. Belling took on several roles related to commercialization, design and application of BAHX, Cold Boxes, and Core-in-Kettles® in key markets of Industrial Gas, Hydrocarbon and Petrochemical Processing, and LNG.

He also has related experience with Trane, a multi-national corporation specializing in the HVAC industry, where he held roles of increasing responsibility as Product Planning and New Product Introduction Leader for Trane’s Global Parts Division

Joe has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.

Joe is Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Joe has been with Chart since 1993 and has held various roles, starting his career as a Product Engineer and then the Strategic Sourcing Manager for MVE. His former roles have included Materials Manager , Director of Global sourcing and most recently VP & GM of Bulk Gas Products.

He holds a BS of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and a Masters of Business Administration, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.

Fred is President, Europe, joining in March of 2023, as part of the Chart Industries, Inc. acquisition of Howden.

He joined Howden in 2013 as Managing Director and Leader of the Global Product business. Progressing in 2020 to Executive Director and President of EMENA region with responsibility for the delivery of Howden’s business across Europe, Middle East, and India. Additionally Fred supported Howden’s diversification and growth, providing global leadership of commercial and product strategies in Tunnel & Metro and Metals and Nuclear end markets.

Prior to joining Howden, Fred worked in business development and operational leadership roles with Petrofac and Weir Group specializing in Power, Water, Oil and Gas and Aftermarket services.

During Fred’s career spanning more than 30 years in mechanical engineering, he has amassed expertise including the ability to translate market insights into product development through to successful global commercialization, M&A experience from opportunity development to value realization and delivering profitable growth across a diverse product and business portfolio.

Fred holds a B.Eng. bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, UK.

Herbert G. Hotchkiss is our Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, serving in this capacity since March 5, 2019. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Hotchkiss spent over 11 years at Truck-Lite Co., LLC as Vice President and Corporate Counsel. Prior to joining Truck-Lite, Herb worked for Blair Corporation as its Vice President and General Counsel. Herb was employed as a Cleveland attorney, working as a corporate associate at Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP and Hahn, Loeser & Parks LLP. Mr. Hotchkiss graduated cum laude from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University with his J.D. in 1996, and he received his LL.M. in Taxation from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1998.

William is President, Americas, where he is responsible for regional execution, starting on August 31st, 2025. Prior to this role, William served as SVP of Finance, Americas starting on November, 30th, 2024. Over the last decade, William has worked in the investment banking and private equity industries focused on energy and infrastructure, where he’s been involved in M&A, financings, and capital projects. Before joining Chart Industries in 2024, William served as a Managing Director in the Private Equity Group and Chief Operating Officer of New Fortress Energy (“NFE”). Prior to NFE, William was a member of Fortress Investment Group’s Infrastructure Private Equity Group and he started his career as an investment banker at Scotiabank, focused on the upstream oil and gas sector. William holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Vanderbilt University.

David is currently the Chief Commercial Officer, responsible for strategically and profitably growing our served markets and customers with our diverse portfolio of products and services as well as expanding our customer touchpoints in new specialty and emerging markets. Prior to joining Chart, David served as President, Advanced Materials at Vibrantz Technologies, a private equity backed specialty chemicals and materials company.

David began his career at MWV Specialty Chemicals (taken public in 2016 as Ingevity Corporation (NYSE: NGVT)), where he spent over 12 years in various commercial, strategy, and general management roles including vice president of corporate strategy and renewable energy ventures from 2020 to 2022, serving as a spearhead for technology scouting and venture investing to drive the company’s growth initiatives.

David held leadership roles at Ingevity, including VP of Performance Materials. He earned an MBA from UNC and civil engineering degrees from Clemson.

Sherry is Vice President of Operations for our Changzhou, China site. Sherry has been with Chart since 2001 in various product management roles. She graduated from Jiangsu University of Science & Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Heat Treatment Technology.

Curtis is Senior Vice President, Operational Excellence & Integration. Curtis is currently responsible for driving operational improvements across Chart and overseeing efforts for integrating Howden into Chart to achieve the expected commercial and cost synergies. Curtis started with Chart in April 2020 as the Vice President of Specialty Markets for Chart where he had commercial responsibility for Chart’s equipment sales in new and emerging markets. Prior to his time at Chart, Curtis held various operational, commercial, and business management roles with Praxair (now Linde) over his 17 years there. He also previously held engineering and operational roles with BP Amoco Chemical and Scott Specialty Gases.

Curtis has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kansas and an MBA from the University of Houston-Clear Lake.

Arja is currently President Europe at Chart Industries. He joins Chart from Siemens, where he held multiple senior executive leadership roles across energy, industrial, and infrastructure businesses in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Arja began his career in engineering and technology development for industrial automation systems, with a strong focus on the U.S. energy markets. He went on to lead large global aftermarket services businesses for power generation and industrial applications across Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East, building scalable service platforms and driving operational excellence.

He later led Joint Ventures in the Middle East across the energy, industrial, and infrastructure sectors, and went on to assume responsibility for Dresser-Rand, where he and his teams delivered a comprehensive integration and transformation, strategically repositioning the business toward the energy transition.

Most recently, Arja was responsible for addressing the platform challenges at Siemens Gamesa, restoring customer confidence, and delivering long-term shareholder value creation at scale.

Eric is President of Africa, Middle East, India, APAC, joining in March of 2023, as part of the Chart Industries, Inc. acquisition of Howden.

He joined Howden in 2018 as President, Howden Africa. Eric has overall operational responsibility for the Middle East and Africa (“MEA”) region, covering key growth end markets such as Power Generation, Hydrogen, Mining & Metals, Petrochemical Oil & Gas, and others. Eric’s role includes developing new routes to market and permanent business establishment in the MEA region, improving regional business capacity in alignment with customer needs. He is also focused on key account management, targeted partnering, product portfolio expansion and localization initiatives.

Eric has held several senior management and leadership roles in a career spanning over thirty years. He has worked for businesses in South Africa and Europe, including: Dorbyl - Tubemakers of Australia; ABSA Bank; HSBC Bank plc and Group Five Limited. A Civil Engineer by trade, Eric’s specialisms include OEM manufacturing, industrial sales and marketing, project financing, infrastructure project development, public-private partnerships, multi-disciplinary EPC construction, corporate restructurings, and M&A. He is passionate about living to our values, driving business transformation, sustainability, and firm action to address climate change.

Eric holds a BSC in Civil Engineering and an MBA from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, as well as an Executive Development Diploma in Management and Innovation from Harvard Business School.