Ray Crabbs - FOUNDER & CEO
Accountable for Corporate Mission and Strategy, Capital Planning, Innovation, Board Communications
Key career highlights:
- Over 20 years of vetting large-scale gasifier operations
- 25 years running a multidisciplinary energy consultancy
- Perfected 20 patents for carbon-based waste conversion solutions in the US and abroad
- Global Fellow of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Personally raised over $1B in charitable contributions
- Served as CEO / COO reporting to 12+ Fortune 500 companies
- A distinguished innovator, he is also renowned thought leader, motivational speaker, and lecturer on alternative energy
- MA in Public Administration and a BS in Agricultural Economics and from Washington State University.
Manuel Ortiz - President and COO
Accountable for Corporate Culture, Risk Management, Planning and Budgeting, Project Management and Operations, Corporate Functions, Partnership Development, Human Capital Management, Marketing, and Commercial Sales
Key career highlights:
- Over 35 years of experience leading strategic efforts, complex changes, and large, global and diverse businesses
- Global Controller for ExxonMobil Corporation’s Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) and Heavy Oil business lines
- Controller ExxonMobil Global Projects Company with a global CAPEX of $16B
- CFO at Syncrude Canada, a company with 5,000 employees and a production of 360,000 barrels of light crude per day. Generated over $2B in cost savings
- Director and CFO for ExxonMobil’s affiliates and large shared-services companies across the world
- Fulbright scholar, MBA from State University of New York, BS in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Javeriana
Per Sorensen - CFO
Accountable for Financial Reporting, Systems, Cash Management, Compliance, Risk Management, Financial Structuring, Banking Relations, Capital Raising, and Investor Relations
Key career highlights:
- Managing Director, Bentley Associates, with 20+ years of Investment Banking: M&A, Private Placements, Advisory
- Registered Professional Engineer and noted subject matter expert on infrastructure project finance
- P&L responsibility for six International E&C firms, 8000 employees, CFO for two other technical companies
- Director of Strategy at Combustion Engineering / ABB, a $3B energy, engineering, and manufacturing firm
- Lead engineer for nuclear and oil-fired power plants and consultant for advanced automation tech
- MBA from MIT, BA/BS in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University
John Long - Corporate Secretary
Accountable for record keeping, compliance, legal and regulatory advice, board support, shareholder relations and leading corporate actions
Key career highlights:
- General Counsel of NM Management, Inc.
- President of Bay County Settlement, Inc.
- Operations Vice President of New Millenium Century-21
- Partner in five law firms in Oklahoma and Virginia
Steve Justus - Government Relations Lead
Accountable for for building and maintaining relationships with government officials and policymakers, and being at the forefront of legislation, regulations, and public policy decisions that impact the company and industry
Key career highlights:
- Serves as the United States Southern Command Liaison to the Department of Homeland Security
- Responsible for supporting the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, the Offices of Operations, Policy, Plans, International Affairs, the Military Assistant to the Secretary
- Secretary’s Briefing Staff and the DHS Components
Max Johns - Feedstock Processing Lead
Accountable for managing the receipt and treatment of the raw feedstocks that the plant needs for its recycling and production processes
Key career highlights:
- 35+ years in solid waste management. Has served in leadership roles with BFI, Allied and Republic Services
- Roles included, among others, continuous improvement / safety manager, corporate trainer, operations manager
- Additional specialized roles include employee safety, retention, and operational efficiency
Randall Moore - BIOLARGO - Owner's Engineer
An Owner's Engineer (OE) is a crucial role in project planning and execution, acting as an independent advisor and representative of IBC. His primary goal is to ensure the project is delivered on time, within budget, and meets the owner's specific requirements.
Biolargo is a full-service environmental engineering service provider and a technology innovator
Key career highlights
- President & CEO BioLargo Engineering, Science & Technologies
- 38+ years of engineering with Fortune 10 Engineering, Procurement and Contruction (EPC) companies in Senior roles in commercial consulting, air quality, project engineering, environmental permitting, testing and equipment design, among others.
- Senior technical and operational leadership roles at CB&I's Integrated Environmental Solutions and the Shaw Environmental and Infrastructure Group
- BSME University of Tennessee Knoxville, MS Engineering University of Tennessee Space Institute
- Holder of 10 US and European patents