Emerging Fuels Technology has appointed Dr. Helge Sachs as Chief Development Officer, strengthening its senior leadership team as the company expands from a leading technology licensor to a developer and owner of proprietary Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) projects. Dr. Sachs brings deep expertise in syngas and Fischer-Tropsch technologies, aviation markets, and project development, along with a strong global network to accelerate EFT's next phase of growth.
TULSA, Okla., Feb. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Emerging Fuels Technology (EFT) today announced the appointment of Dr. Helge Sachs as its Chief Development Officer, strengthening the company's leadership team as it enters the next phase of its growth. Dr. Sachs is the second senior executive appointment in this phase, following David Lloyd's appointment as Chief Commercial Officer in May 2025. These additions reflect EFT's strategy, building on its position as the leading licensor of Fischer-Tropsch and Upgrading technologies, and also developing its own renewable fuels projects. Currently based in Hamburg, Germany, Dr. Sachs is EFT's first senior leader in Europe, reflecting the importance of the EU and UK markets for SAF offtake, policy engagement, and future project development.
Most recently, Dr. Sachs was Chief Commercial Officer of Caphenia, a German clean-tech company developing novel syngas technology and a licensee of EFT's Fischer-Tropsch platform. Previously, he served as a senior executive at Sasol, the world's longest-established Fischer-Tropsch company, where he led strategy, commercialization, and project development initiatives, including collaboration with other companies on upgrading technologies.
Dr. Sachs commented, "Since my days at Sasol, I have known EFT as one of a very small number of companies that can credibly offer a fully integrated solution—taking syngas all the way through to ASTM-qualified, drop-in Sustainable Aviation Fuel. That capability has long made EFT attractive to licensees across a wide range of feedstocks and syngas technologies, and my experience working with EFT while at Caphenia only reinforced that view."
"What ultimately convinced me to join, however, is EFT's decision to apply this technology to its own projects. The company is positioned in a real economic sweet spot, balancing capital exposure and production capacity in a way that enables highly competitive, levelized costs of both advanced bio-SAF and e-SAF. Leveraging its Gas-to-Liquids expertise to bring biogas and Renewable Natural Gas into the mainstream of SAF feedstocks is exactly what is needed to move SAF from niche volumes to scale."
Ken Agee, Founder and CEO of Emerging Fuels Technology, added, "Helge's joining EFT is both a strong vote of confidence in our direction and a key step in executing it. Over the coming months, our focus is on raising capital and advancing our first project, which is designed to serve as a repeatable template for a broader portfolio of projects. Helge will play a central role in securing the right partners and helping us move efficiently from concept to execution.
"A defining feature of EFT's project architecture is the ability to produce both advanced bio-SAF and e-SAF within the same facility. The EU and UK are critical markets for both fuel categories — even for US-based projects — given their SAF mandates, emerging revenue-certainty mechanisms, and clear differentiation between first-generation fuels such as HEFA, advanced biofuels, and e-fuels. Moreover, the EU and UK are leaders in the deployment of biogas and Renewable Natural Gas, which are key feedstocks for advanced bio-SAF. While Helge will work across EFT's global priorities, his location in Europe reinforces our commitment to these markets and to building a scalable project pipeline there over time."
About Emerging Fuels Technology
Emerging Fuels Technology (EFT) is a global leader in Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis and upgrading technologies for producing sustainable, high-performance drop-in fuels and chemicals. Collaborating with syngas providers, EFT converts diverse feedstocks—including biogas, biomass, and CO₂ from industrial and biogenic sources, direct air capture, and seawater capture—into customized solutions. EFT licenses its Technology Platform to third parties, offering engineering and laboratory support, including process design, simulation, catalyst testing, sample production, training, and more.
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