William Potter – Non-executive Director
Bill has more than 40 years of experience in international investment banking, asset management, and early-stage corporate venture capital. He has held executive positions with Toronto-Dominion Bank, Barclays PLC, and Prudential Financial. He serves or has served on the board of directors of more than 20 public and private corporations in the U.S., Canada, Australia and elsewhere. He received a M.B.A. from Harvard University and an A.B. from Colgate University.
Brian Ferrier – Director of Sales and Marketing, Canada
Brian has more than 20 years of international business and marketing experience, and over 10 years of market research experience. He has implemented the market entry of many early-stage technology companies, and has taught sales, marketing, and international strategy at various Canadian universities. He holds M.B.A. and B.A. degrees from York University.
David Pond – CFO
David has 30 years of financial services and investment experience working with global banks and financial institutions, including American Express Bank Ltd., Robeco Groep N.V., PineBridge Investments LLC, and Kidder Peabody & Company. He holds M.B.A. cum laude and B.S. degrees from Brigham Young University.
Jon Montgomery – Senior Advisor
Jon has more than 25 years of marketing consulting and market research experience, informing and guiding clients’ branding, communications, segmentation and innovation challenges across a range of industries. Since 2001 he has been adjunct faculty in marketing, the University of Georgia. He holds a M.B.A. from Northeastern University and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ron Laskin – Senior Advisor
Ron is an experienced operations manager, project manager, and international trade executive with multi-industry experience directing engineering & construction projects, plant operations and project finance. He has a strong diversified technical and business background with proven success in developing and managing international strategic alliances, systems integration, plant relocation, risk management and global sourcing activities. He received M.B.A. and B.S. degrees from Drexel University.
John Smitka – Director of Strategic Development, Legal Counsel
John has had an extensive investment management career, holding senior positions at Signal Ridge Capital Partners LLC, Penguin Global Wealth Management LLC, Banc of America Investment Services Inc., and UBS Global Wealth Management. He was a partner at law firms McDermott Will & Emery and Eckert Seamans Cherin & Melott, and was general counsel for Eastern Utilities Associates (now part of National Grid, USA), among others. He holds J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Boston College and an A.B. from Colgate University.
Trilogy Financial Group, Inc.
…provides financial advisory and project support to WTP. Trilogy is an alternative energy development company focused on the waste sector. The company structures, develops, finances, and implements projects to have a net-zero impact on the environment. It provides fully integrated waste management solutions, from the collection or acceptance of waste streams, through the generation of energy and other commodities, to the elimination or disposition of all process byproducts. The principals, Joe Anderson and Fred Deluca, have financed and developed energy and waste stream diversion projects in numerous industries with a primary focus on renewables, including anaerobic digestion, wind, solar, landfill gas, ethanol, biodiesel, and canola crush technologies.
