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Executive Director
Tom is a seasoned professional in strategic planning and business development and is the recognized leader in the biogas field with over 20 years of experience as a collaboration partner working in the renewables and environment industries. In 2007 he developed the first dairy biomethane to gas grid injection project where the waste from a 12,000 head dairy was put through the anaerobic digestion process, upgraded to pipeline quality, and then injected into the Pacific Gas and Electric natural gas transmission lines. He completed this project in California in less than nine months.
As managing director at Seahold LLC he helps clients identify and develop viable organics to fuels opportunities. He is an independent expert offering project development support, feedstock biomethane potential analysis testing, feasibility studies, due diligence support for owners of organics, developers, financial investors and other stakeholders.
His goal is move more organics into biomethane to create sustainable gas efforts and mitigate the destructive forces of climate change caused by burning fossil fuels. He assists new players and technologies to deliver sustainable gas into the grid with laboratory programs and, pilot and production scale organics.
Tom holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Indiana, Bloomington.
Partner
Lee is a senior sales and marketing executive with over 40 years of experience evangelizing technology innovation from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups. He co-founded Coinstar which gained its IPO in 1995 and now has more than 65,000 locations worldwide. Lee will oversee marketing and sponsorship sales and manage SG FOCUS 2020.
He has volunteered with a number of organizations including Sustainable Marblehead, Guide Dogs for the Blind, San Francisco SPCA, Home Away From Homelessness, Seattle Lunch Buddies, San Francisco General Hospital, Disabled Sports Far West and New England Disabled Sports where he is a volunteer ski instructor. He has been a coach and mentor with the Harvard Business School Northern California Alumni Community Partners and The Honor Foundation which helps veterans from the Special Operator community transition from the military to their next life mission.
Lee graduated from Colgate University and got his MBA from The Harvard Business School. He is an avid skier, cyclist and soccer player.
Board Member – Verdant Foundation
Sue has a long historical interest in renewables, as an active member of the Future Farmers of
America, raising dairy goats, market hogs and market sheep. She saw the need to compost the
animal waste and use it in both family and neighborhood gardens.
Working in various professional venues, from food service (Kraft and Food Services of America)
to technology providers (Microsoft and Northrup Grumman), she has carried her passion for
sustainability to all aspects of her life.
Sue has worked with SeaHold® LLC and Team Biogas®, assisting with organics waste to fuel
solutions for local, regional, state and national customers. Sue is the technology/laboratory
services coordinator for the Anaerobic Digestion Lab Test Network, that provides scientific
testing services necessary for organizations to determine the specific materials
characterizations.
Sue is a licensed judge for American Kennel Club performance events, and judges 20-30 events
yearly.