Leadership
Board of DirectorsChairman of the Board CEO and CFO, Founder Non-executive Director Non-executive Director Non-executive Director Non-executive Director Non-executive Director OfficersCEO and CFO, Founder President and COO General Counsel and Dir. Govt. Affairs |
Staff LeadershipVice President of Project Development Vice President of Operations Vice President of Substrate Sourcing Vice President of Project Management Vice President and Chief Engineer Vice President of Commercial Development Vice President of Power Marketing Vice President of Finance and Controller
|
Board of Directors
John J. Clarke, Jr., Chairman of the Board
Mr. Clarke co-founded Homeland Renewable Energy Inc with Rupert Fraser in 2003. He is the Founder and President of Baldwin & Clarke Corporate Finance, Inc., an investment banking firm established in 1984 that has completed nearly $2 billion in middle market M&A transactions and capital raises. Mr Clarke recently co-founded Triumph Investment Fund, LLP, a private equity firm specializing in investing in high performance small cap Community Based Commercial Banks, with Mr Keller.
Rupert Fraser, MA, ACA, CEO and CFO, Founder
Mr. Fraser co-founded Homeland Renewable Energy Inc with Jack Clarke in 2003, to acquire Fibrowatt LLC from its UK parent Fibrowatt Ltd. He had previously founded Fibrowatt LLC in 2000, and was co-founder, with his father, of Fibrowatt Ltd in the UK in 1989. Between 1989 and 2005 he was a Director of Fibrowatt Ltd, where he served as Finance Director and Chief Executive.
Mr. Fraser previously worked for Gavin Anderson & Company, the Financial PR consultancy, where he was Director in charge of stock surveillance and information technology. Prior to joining Gavin Anderson, Mr Fraser spent three years in investment banking with Robert Fleming & Co. Ltd and two years working on acquisitions for ICI Paints Division, after having trained as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG. He has a degree in History from Magdalen College, Oxford.
In the UK he has been the Chairman of the Government Department of Trade & Industry’s Bioenergy Exports Network, a member of the Government Energy Regulator’s High Level Environmental Advisory Group, and the Founder and first Chairman of the UK’s leading pan-technology renewable energy trade association, the Renewable Energy Association.
Robert P. Keller, Non Executive Director
Chairman of Remuneration Committee; member of Audit Committee.
Mr. Keller has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of three separate financial institutions since 1991, each of which was acquired by a larger regional banking company. Mr Keller’s extensive career in the banking industry has spanned over 30 years. In addition to his banking experience, Mr Keller is a CPA and had nine years of public accounting practice in New York and North Carolina. From March 2002 to May 2003, Mr Keller served as the Founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of InStar Services Group, a nationwide provider of insurance restorations and reconstruction services out of Fort Worth, Texas.
Currently, Mr Keller serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Security Business Bank of San Diego in addition to being Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Pennichuck Corporation. Mr Keller recently co-founded Triumph Investment Fund, LLP, with Mr Clarke.
Richard A. M. Constant, MBE, Non-Executive Director
Member of Remuneration Committee.
Mr. Constant is Chief Executive Worldwide and Chairman of Gavin Anderson & Company, an international communications consulting firm and market leader in advising the London quoted renewable energy sector. In this role Mr Constant has advised numerous companies and organisations such as British Energy plc, UK Coal plc, GAZPROM, Enterprise Inns plc, Alliance Boots plc, the Government of Qatar and NASDAQ on their communications and investor relations programmes, both domestically and internationally. He has been involved in 150 M&A transactions and 50 IPOs.
He has served as a non-executive director on the Boards of Austin Reed Group plc and Fibrowatt Limited.
Between 1985 and 1989 Mr Constant was responsible for marketing in London and New York for the investment banking division of Robert Fleming & Co, prior to which he served in the British Army for 13 years, latterly in the Ministry of Defence as an Assistant to the Vice-Chief of the General Staff. He was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and has a degree in Modern History from Durham University.
Derek W. HasBrouck, Non-Executive Director
Member of Audit Committee.
Mr. HasBrouck is an independent consultant serving the utility industry, including expert witness assignments under contract through PA Consulting.
In 2006 and 2007, he served as CFO and Treasurer of Vermont Electric Power Company, leading its financial restructuring and raising of $400m of new capital. Prior to this he was Senior Partner and a Management Committee Member of PA Consulting Group, Inc, and its predecessor firms Hagler Bailly, Inc. and TB&A Group, Inc.
He has over 25 years of international experience providing consultancy advice to utilities, including leading the implementation of the wholesale electricity market in Singapore and testimony to FERC and numerous state utility regulatory commissions.
Mr. Hasbrouck has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a MBA from Northwestern University.
Thomas C. Leonard, BS, CPA, Non-Executive Director
Chairman of Audit Committee; member of Remuneration Committee.
Mr. Leonard is a vice president in the Boston-based finance practice of CRA International, the global consulting firm. He has more than 30 years of experience providing financial services to global and national organization13s, including providing expert witness testimony and analysis in matters involving the application of GAAP standards in connection with purchase price calculations, revenue recognition, and other complex accounting and financial reporting matters.
Prior to joining CRA, he was a managing director at Huron Consulting Group. He was also a senior partner at Arthur Andersen LLP, and served as the Partner-in-Charge of New England Assurance and Business Advisory practice. Mr Leonard has worked with the top management, external counsel, and the boards of directors of clients in many industries, including high technology, manufacturing, and energy, where he has provided special investigation and accounting advisory services in a broad range of accounting and financial reporting areas.
He currently serves on the Board of Kadant Inc, the NYSE-quoted paper-making equipment company.
Perdita Fraser, Non-Executive Director
Ms. Fraser is a UK-based independent financial consultant, working in various fields from online retail, to trusts and portfolio management. She has more than 20 years’ experience in finance as a consultant and as a banker. She has been the lead litigator in successful minority shareholder rights litigation over 5 years. She is a partner in SJ Fraser & Co, a financial consultancy. She was previously a director of Fibrowatt Limited.
Prior to this Ms. Fraser worked for 10 years in investment banking at JP Morgan as a country manager across corporate advisory, debt/equity, and structured finance. She was previously an economic analyst with the Foreign Relations directorate of the European Union in Brussels. She has published articles and studies on international economics for inter alia the Economist (EIU), the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and Oxford Analytica.
Ms. Fraser has an MA in Economics and Politics from Edinburgh University.
Officers
Rupert Fraser, CEO and CFO, Founder
Read Mr. Fraser’s biography above.
James Potter, President and COO
Mr. Potter is responsible for overseeing all Business Development projects. He has 24-years of energy project development and acquisition experience combined with his wholesale power marketing and operation expertise. He specializes in strategic domestic and international power project development and asset acquisition, having successfully developed multiple complex power projects and managed the acquisition of several large power generation portfolios. Project development expertise has focused on base load combined cycle and mid-merit/peaking generation facilities along with a broad base of experience with biomass, solar and wind.
Edward Niblock, General Counsel & Dir. Govt. Affairs
Mr. Niblock joined HRE in 2006 and is chief counsel for all HRE Group companies. He has over ten years’ experience as a General Counsel, serving companies with business in the US and abroad. He holds degrees from The Johns Hopkins University and Boston University School of Law, and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1998. He also serves as Director of Government Affairs for all Group companies.
Staff Leadership
Michael Casper, Vice President of Project Development
Mr. Casper is responsible for the development of anaerobic digester projects. He has over 20 years of business and project development, consulting and engineering experience in the area of renewable and clean energy technologies. His expertise in business development includes marketing, financial modeling, permitting, stakeholder management, and energy research. He led the development of numerous clean energy projects, providing sustainable energy solutions for businesses, utilities, cooperatives and government entities. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from DePaul University.
Ronald L. Davies, Vice President of Operations
Mr. Davies is responsible for the operation of the Group’s power plants. He joined Fibrowatt in 2007, and his previous roles include senior plant and project management posts with Johnson Controls, Wheelabrator, Covanta, General Electric and PSEG. He also spent 13 years with Foster Wheeler managing a variety of engineering projects for fossil fired steam generators. Mr. Davies has over 35 years’ experience in the operation, maintenance and management of alternative energy facilities and power plants. He has a degree in marine engineering from The US Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point.
John Illgen, Vice President of Substrate Sourcing
Mr. Illgen’s responsibilities include the overall acquisition of materials, supplies and services for the plants as well as managing and controlling negotiations for substrate supplies. He has over 20 years’ experience in the agricultural industry and has spent the last 5 years working in the field of Anaerobic Digester Operations. Mr. Illgen has a BA from the University of Wisconsin.
David Frith, Vice President of Project Management
Mr. Frith oversees the project management activities of FWLLC covering the design and construction of the Group’s power plants. Prior to joining Fibrowatt in 2000, he worked in the UK as the Engineering Manager for the turnkey contractor that designed and built Fibrowatt Ltd’s then largest poultry litter fueled power plant to date in Thetford, England. Mr. Frith has over 30 years of industry experience in the power generation industry, involving a range of standard and alternative fuels and plant sizes. He has a BSc degree in Physics from University College, London.
Peter Jackson, Vice President and Chief Engineer
Mr. Jackson is responsible for the engineering design of the Group’s plants, and the development of its technology and Engineering Design Standards. He has worked with Fibrowatt LLC or Fibrowatt Ltd in senior engineering roles since 2000, prior to which he spent 5 years working at Foster Wheeler (where his main client was Fibrowatt Ltd) and 20 years at Babcock & Wilcox in a variety of engineering and management roles. He has over 30 years’ experience, focusing particularly on boiler design and combustion and emissions technology development and management in the UK, Middle East, South America, Africa and Europe. He has a degree from St John’s College, Cambridge.
Eric Jenkins, Vice President of Commercial Development
Mr. Jenkins manages early-stage development of the Group’s biomass power projects, focusing particularly on sourcing and signing up poultry litter and other biomass fuels, and identifying sites and building up community support, in addition to other commercial negotiations relating to projects. He has over 25 years’ experience in, and working with, the poultry industry. For 15 of these years he was responsible for all of the poultry litter procurement negotiations of Fibrowatt Ltd and Fibrowatt LLC. Prior to this experience he was Business Development Manager for Hillsdown Turkeys (part of the largest UK poultry integrator) and St Ivel Farm Foods.
Paul Kelso, Vice President of Power Marketing
Mr. Kelso is responsible for the project development of new poultry fueled power projects, including the proposals, pricing and the establishment of contracts for power purchase agreements. He has been with Fibrowatt for 3 years and has over 21 years experience in the power industry, most recently with Foster Wheeler, where he worked on the development of the power boilers for prior Fibrowatt projects. Paul has a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Dalhousie University and an MBA in Finance from Rollins College.
Winton Tolles, Vice President of Finance and Controller
Mr. Tolles is responsible for all accounting and finance matters for the Group. He acts as liaison with the development, plant operations, engineering and construction personnel within the Group, as well as the stakeholders and lenders. He has over 30 years’ experience working in accounting firms and in the Alternative Energy industry acting as both Controller and Chief Financial Officer generating positive cash flow. He has a BS from Princeton University and a Master’s of Science degree in Accounting from New York University.
