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Bill Levy – Founder, President

  • 15 + years agricultural leadership experience
  • President, founder, Pacific Ag Solutions- the largest agricultural residue and forage harvesting company in the country ~100 employees, serving 70,000 acres for over 50 clients, 200,000 tons of feedstock anuually
  • Successfully negotiated and facilitated merger of American Onion and Rivergate Farms to form River Point Farms, www.riverpointfarms, now the nation’s largest onion grower. Served as COO first year, and worked closely with CIC Capital in Dallas to facilitate transaction
  • MS Washington State University, Agribusiness; BS, Oregon State University Ag Economics

Steve Van Mouwerik – CEO

  • 15 + years forage export experience focusing on aggregation, processing and shipment of Oregon grass straw to beef and dairy markets in Japan and Korea
  • Feedstock experience including long term grower relations, harvest planning and management, pricing, storage infrastructure development, material handling, processing plant management and year round order fulfillment of over 170,000 tons of ag residue per year
  • Served on multiple boards including the National Hay Association's Export Processors Council and President of the Oregon Agricultural Fiber Association
  • MS University of Pennsylvania; BA Lewis and Clark College; MA University of Pennsylvania

Rod Phelan - Director Harvest Operations

  • 30+ years direct experience harvesting, baling and storing forage crops and crop residue in Idaho and the Willamette Valley, Oregon
  • Harvested well over 100,000 tons annually of ag residue
  • Harvested 30,000 tons of corn stover in Midwest in over last decade in project development studies
  • Conducted feasibility studies for Weyerhaeuser for 100,000 tons per year of mill ready “straw chips”
  • Worked with Heartland Fibers LLC to develop 250,000 tons per year of corn stover to be used in production of high-end white paper pulp in Nebraska and Indiana
  • From 1998 to 2001 conducted rice straw harvest and infrastructure study in Northern California

Luke Dynes – Vice President, Operations

  • Vice President and Co-Owner of Pacific Ag Solutions, Hermiston, OR
  • Co-owner of Mid-Columbia Enterprises, Pacific Ag Investments and Cascade East Farming Operations
  • Current board member of the Umatilla Basin Watershed Council
  • Over 10 years agricultural management, sales and logistics
  • Directs all field operations covering 70,000 acres over 3 western states
  • Developed proprietary technique to harvest and bale crops
  • Instrumental role in developing new paradigm for bioenergy supply chain
  • Currently manages more than 200,000 tons of feedstock
  • BS, Oregon State University, Ag Economics

Harrison Pettit – Vice President of Business Development

  • Over seventeen years experience identifying opportunities and leading corporate strategic business initiatives for growth most recently as Director of Business Development for Pacific Ethanol, Inc (NASDAQ:PEIX).
  • Very active in the development of all of Pacific Ethanol’s 220 million gallons of ethanol production, and led development of its 60 million gallon a year Burley, ID plant completed in May of 2008.
  • Led Pacific Ethanol’s advanced biofuels efforts as the Principal Investigator and Project Developer for the West Coast Biorefinery, Pacific’s 2.7 million gallon a year cellulosic ethanol commercial demonstration project selected in 2008 by the US DOE for a $24.3 million financial assistance grant.
  • Over ten years leading the Marketing and Sales at a national wood products manufacturing company
  • MBA Georgetown University, BA University of Wisconsin - Madison

 

 

 

 

 

Sustainable Residue Removal

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