Management Team

Krystal Planet's management team is a group of experienced professionals with a strong combination of Fortune 500 management and top of the line operations and IT professionals.

Troy HelmingTroy Helming, Founder and CEO

Mr. Helming is known as one of America's leading clean energy economists: he shows how converting to clean power can be profitable: "there is green in going green." He's the creator of The Freedom Plan (convert America to 100% wind & hydrogen for $2 Trillion and save the U.S. economy $1 Trillion per year), author of The Clean Power Revolution and numerous wind energy publications, founder & CEO of Krystal Planet (which uses Grass Roots marketing to implement The Freedom Plan). Mr. Helming has been a keynote speaker on wind energy since 2000, addressing energy executives & the public in over a dozen states and 4 countries. He holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Kansas and is a member of Mensa. Born in 1967, Mr. Helming is a former gymnast, is training to be a pilot and aspires to climb the 'Seven Summits' - the world's tallest mountains per continent – during his lifetime. Learn More.

"Help me take on Big Oil and Big Coal to bring our country's energy policy back into our hands. It's time to STOP burning dirty fossil fuels, importing foreign energy & waging costly Oil Wars."

Josh CrookerJosh Crooker, Wind & Solar Project Manager, Director of Fulfillment

Mr. Crooker was born and raised in Branson, MO. He attended the University of Missouri-Rolla studying Electrical Engineering and moved to Kansas City in 2002 to pursue a career in aviation. He now attends the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he is pursuing a BA in Information Technology For the last 3 years, Mr. Crooker has been a flight instructor and commercial pilot in the Kansas City area, instructing students for their private, instrument, commercial, multi-engine and instructor’s ratings. Mr. Crooker has been working with Krystal Planet since July of 2004 as the Director of Fulfillment.