Team

• Andre Raiche – Chief Executive Officer
Andre is a senior executive with over 30 years experience in public and private companies developing software and financial innovation.

• Marisa Zuzga, PMP – Chief Engineering Officer
Marisa has over 15 years of engineering and project management experience in power generation, industrial processes and aerospace including Hughes Space and Communication (now Boeing Space Systems) and Lockheed Martin.  She has early stage company experience in product design and project management.  Marisa received a BS in mechanical engineering from MIT.

• Dr. Charles Coronella (Chuck)
Chuck is an associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Utah, and is a licensed professional chemical engineer in the State of Nevada. He is spending the 2013-14 academic year as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Chalmers University. Chuck has conducted research in applications of fluidization in alternative energy processes for 20 years, and currently has three pending patents. His research has been funded by industry, by the US DOE, by the California Energy Commission, and by the National Science Foundation. Presently, he has 20 peer-reviewed publications.

• Evan Hughes, Ph.D.
Dr. Hughes is a consultant on biomass (power and heat, gaseous and liquid fuels, co-combustion of biomass with coal, and biomass fuel supplies and resources) and also on geothermal power.  From 1990-2003 he was Manager, Biomass Energy, EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto CA).  Earlier at EPRI, from 1978-1990, he was a senior project manager in the geothermal power program.  He began his biomass project management at EPRI in 1988 with MSW waste-to-energy (power generation from municipal solid waste) and with short-rotation hybrid poplar and willow as fuels for biomass power (1988-90).