November 4, 2023. At its recent Annual Meeting and Board of Directors Meeting in San Diego, CA, NGVAmerica elected new officers to oversee the organization’s operation through 2024:
- Chair: Marty Tufte, Corporate Fleet Director, WM.
- Vice-Chair: Puneet Jhawar, General Manager – Global Spark Ignited Business, Cummins Inc.
- Treasurer: Michael Zimmerman, General Manager, Cummins Clean Fuel Technologies
- Past Chair: Mitchell Pratt, Chief Technology Development Officer of Clean Energy and Chief Executive Officer of Rimere
NGVAmerica’s Daniel Gage and Jeffrey Clarke remain as President and Secretary respectively. Gage serves as NGVAmerica’s Chief Executive and Clarke as Vice President of Regulatory and Government Affairs and General Counsel.
In addition, Ashley Remillard, Senior Vice President of Legal and Government Affairs at Hexagon, was elected to an at-large position on NGVAmerica’s Executive Committee, joining Charlie Ker, Senior Director, Business Development for Westport Fuel Systems, and Jennifer Stokes, Key Account Manager for CenterPoint Energy, as at-large members.
NGVAmerica’s new Chair, Marty Tufte, is a Corporate Fleet Director for Waste Management, located in Phoenix, Arizona. He has served for over 38 years in progressively responsible positions within the company and presently oversees the Equipment Performance programs at the enterprise level. Waste Management, Inc. is the leading provider of comprehensive waste management and environmental services in North America.
Tufte and his team have pioneered Waste Management’s use of alternative fuel vehicles and oversee all new technology programs. These include Natural Gas, RNG, Battery Electric, Hydrogen, Hybrids and telematics programs to name a few. He has a technical degree from Austin Technical College and has a strong technical and fabrication background.
In addition to electing a new slate of officers, NGVAmerica reappointed one-half of its Board of Directors to new two-year terms to the board.