Management
Buddy Eleazer
General Manager,
CEO of Skychain LLC
an Air Products innovation
Prince B. "Buddy" Eleazer was named General Manager of Skychain LLC in November 2006 and CEO in March 2008. He is responsible for strategy and day to day management of Skychain business. In addition, Buddy is a member of the Corporate New Business Development Office of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. and is a Director of Siloxy Limited, an Air Products joint venture.
Mr. Eleazer joined Air Products in 1984 as Manager of Glass Applications in Air Products' merchant gases businesses. He subsequently held a variety of commercial and research management positions within the merchant gases business, always with a focus on new business development. In 2002, Mr. Eleazer moved into the Corporate Office managing New Business Development. During this period, Mr. Eleazer was also seconded into an Air Products venture capital limited partnership to allow Air Products better understand early stage start-up business investments. Within New Business Development, Mr. Eleazer led the platform development of businesses related to remote asset monitoring and services derived from analytics of remote data. Mr. Eleazer also led the initial investment activity creating Skychain LLC in 2005.

Patrick Kuchevar
Vice President of Business Development
Patrick is the Vice President of Business Development for Skychain. He has spent over 15 years in various senior management positions in the telecommunications sector in business development and sales. As the first employee in Focal Communications, a startup founded in 1997, Patrick was the key contributor in building the companies revenues to over $300 million and a market cap value to over $1 billion in 5 years.
As the Vice President of Enterprise Services for Focal, Patrick lead various teams in building the overall product direction, provided a solutions based selling strategy to the marketplace and headed efforts in advancing key strategic partner relationships. Prior to Focal, Patrick spent 10 years with Sprint Communications where he held sales and business development positions.

Bill Crawford
Director of Engineering and Product Development
Bill Crawford is the Business Technology Manager for M2M Systems at Air Products. Bill is the key interface among the engineering, technology, operations and commercial organizations for Air Products' M2M enabled ventures. In his 30 year tenure at Air Products he has managed organizations for control and automation capital projects for industrial gas, chemicals, cogeneration and waste treatment facilities. Bill has led the development, commissioning and scaling up of M2M enabled applications in auto-replenishment, machinery control and supply chain improvement.


