Executive Management

Mr. Nyland was appointed President of Loop in 2015 and Chief Executive Officer of Loop in 2016, following more than three years as the Company’s Vice President, Operations.

Mr. Nyland is responsible for the Company’s strategic planning, corporate leadership, market expansion, and managing key partner relationships as the Company commercializes its clean and affordable transportation solutions.

Prior to joining Loop, Mr. Nyland spent over 10 years in a variety of senior management positions, including as President of Rampworth Capital Services Inc., JBN Developments Inc., Exro Technologies Inc. and Maclean Group Marketing.

Mr. Nyland holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta.

Mr. Ready joined Loop in 2016 as an accountant, and then as Chief Financial Officer with responsibility for the Company’s financial compliance, strategy and governance.

He joined Loop after spending fifteen years in similar roles with a variety of private and public companies in the clean technology and biotechnology sectors.

Mr. Ready has experience negotiating and signing joint venture agreements in Asia. Previously Mr. Ready served as Director of Finance for a TSX-listed company with operations in Hong Kong and Nanning, China. He also played a role in an early stage start up software and hardware company, which has now successfully deployed over 400 dementia care systems into seniors housing facilities across the United States and Canada.

For six years, Mr. Ready was also the CFO of a biotech company which pioneered the use of computer-aided learning in microscopy imaging devices for use by pathologists to help predict cancer through the quantitative measurement of DNA content levels in early-stage cancer cells.

Darren earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree in International Business from the University of Victoria and holds CPA and Certified Management Accountant designations.

Mr. Rubin joined Loop in 2020 as Managing Director, Commercial Strategy, and then as Chief Commercial Officer.

He is a seasoned technology industry executive with the unique combination of a strong scientific background and in-depth, hands-on experience in building sales, business development and marketing organizations.

As Co-Founder, Vice President and subsequently President of Day4 Energy Inc., Mr. Rubin was instrumental in developing a strategic vision and directly responsible for executing the corporate development plan. This included including growing company operations from a research and development start-up in 2003 with a total of five staff, to 265 employees and sales in excess of $350 million in seven years.

As CEO of Heliotrope Technologies Inc., Mr. Rubin developed a minimum viable product strategy, early adopter customer base and ultimately a sales pipeline in excess of $40 million in under two years.

Dr. Musselman joined Loop in 2020, bringing over 30 years of experience from renewable energy and automotive sectors. Recently at Svante Inc. (formerly Inventys Thermal Technologies Inc., “Svante”), Dr. Musselman was Vice President, Operations and Engineering and Vice President, Manufacturing Operations, where he built a team from less than five people in 2017 to about 45 by 2019, and successfully executed the design, construction, and operation of a world-first point source carbon capture plant removing 30 tons of carbon dioxide per day using Svante’s proprietary technology.

As Vice President, Engineering at Endurance Wind Power Inc., Dr. Musselman grew a technical team from about 15 to more than 50 in three years as annual corporate revenues grew from approximately $6 million to $60 million in the same period and his team designed, installed, and maintained approximately 700 new turbines in the United Kingdom with an estimated combined installed cost in excess of £250 million.

Dr. Musselman’s other executive roles include Chief Operating Officer at Bionic Power Inc., and Vice President, Engineering and Technology Development at Xebec Adsorption Inc. where he has repeatedly delivered on the commercialization and production scale-up of new technologies. His career foundation was built in the automotive industry where he held plant and maintenance engineering roles at General Motors of Canada Co. car assembly plants and led advanced engineering efforts for Multimatic Inc., a Tier 1 OEM Supplier and motorsports company.

A registered Professional Engineer, Dr. Musselman has a Bachelor of Applied Science and Master of Applied Science degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Waterloo, a PhD in Engineering Science from Western University, and has completed the Executive Development Course at McGill University.

As Chief Scientist at Loop Energy, Dr. MacKinnon is responsible for leading and guiding the evolution of the company’s suite of fuel cell technology solutions.

With extensive experience in research, development and project management, Dr. MacKinnon joined Loop in 2012 after conducting two peer reviews of the company’s eFlow® fuel cell technology and validating its capacity to address technical barriers encountered in his earlier career with Ballard Power Systems and General Motors Fuel Cell R&D.

Dr. MacKinnon also worked with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) where he helped construct a national program for alternative vehicle propulsion technologies. He received his Doctorate in Chemistry from Carleton University and holds 36 patents, with 13 others pending.