Ýmir Technologies

Ari comes to Ýmir with more than twenty years of experience in the green energy industry and innovative circular solutions: Leading and implementing large-scale projects in the field of geothermal energy, as well as the operation of power plants, piping of district heating system, portable water system and pumping stations. Most recently, Ari worked for 5 years at HS Orka as the project manager on a large research project where he led the drilling of Iceland’s deepest geothermal well and worked as a power plant manager at HS Orka's geothermal plants.

Before co-founding Ýmir Technologies, Asgeir worked as a marine engineer, ran an independent engineering and design consultancy and represented a major international equipment provider in Iceland. He also participated in the design and construction of many of Iceland's most significant fishmeal plants and sewage treatment plants.

Oddur is a professor of chemistry at the University of Iceland and a co-founder of Ýmir Technologies, as well as CRI, a company providing industrial-scale loops for converting waste CO2 streams into methanol. After earning his PhD from the Free University in Berlin he worked in industrial and technological research in Japan and the US and as the QC manager of a drug company.