Our team

The people who design, build and stand behind every SunDanzer.

A small team of engineers and cold-chain specialists. When you call SunDanzer, you talk to the people who designed the equipment.

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Founder

From NASA to the last mile of the cold chain.

Founder, President & CEO

David Bergeron

David has spent 40 years in refrigeration and aerospace. At NASA's Johnson Space Center he was technical lead for the Advanced Technology Refrigeration project, led a solar-powered heat pump demonstration for a lunar habitat, and was lead engineer on a satellite designed for reentry and recovery. The battery-free solar refrigerator he developed there became the basis for SunDanzer in 1999.

Today he leads SunDanzer's research and development, including our next-generation lithium + phase-change vaccine refrigerators.

6 patents: 3 refrigeration, 3 spacecraft
BS Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M
MS Finance, University of Houston–Clear Lake

How it started

David was 16, driving his first car, when the 1970s gas lines showed him how much the world depended on oil. He studied renewable energy as an engineering student, spent 18 years building satellites, and started SunDanzer part-time in 1999. By year five it was his full-time job.

Leadership & medical team

Engineering, operations and the field.

Harrison Goold

Chief Operating Officer

Harrison runs day-to-day operations: design, manufacturing, quality and supply chain. He spent a year and a half in China working directly with our production partners and travels to installation sites to bring field lessons back to the factory.

Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno

Ian Tansley

Director of Medical Sales

An engineer with more than 35 years in renewable energy and refrigeration, Ian invented the SureChill cooling system. He works with ministries of health, NGOs and procurement teams to plan vaccine cold-chain rollouts, from choosing equipment to delivery at remote sites.

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Jim Airola

Co-founder · VP, Medical Projects

An economist who has spent his career on problems in the developing world, Jim co-founded SunDanzer and works on medical projects that close gaps in the vaccine cold chain.

PhD, Economics

Mike Bauer

NGO Project Manager

Mike managed the four-year IFAD GreenTech grant: nine pilot projects in six countries across East and Southern Africa. He leads market assessment and business development for programs in developing countries.

MBA, Santa Clara UniversityBA, UC Santa Cruz

Where we work

Designed in the US. In the field in 69 countries.

Research, testing and shipping happen in Arizona and California. Our team travels to installation sites to train technicians and see how the equipment performs.

Tucson, Arizona

Main warehouse · R&D

420 E Aviation Drive, Suite 120
Tucson, AZ 85714, USA

San Luis Obispo, California

R&D

Research and development

Talk to the engineers who designed the equipment.

(520) 882-9100 · Mon–Fri, 9 am – 5 pm Arizona time

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