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Building strength through partnerships.
Biogas Development’s strength comes from our diverse and complementary experiences in the financial, engineering, legal, project development, and waste management disciplines. Our partners have held key positions throughout government agencies and companies such as General Electric, Waste Management, and Dewey & LeBoeuf.
Our Directors
Ahren Tryon
Chief Executive Officer
- Leads company strategy and transactions
- 20+ years of experience in midstream, renewable and infrastructure sectors
- $6B of energy and infrastructure M&A and developments
- Former partner in international law firm energy practices
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Former federal pipeline presiding official and White House Energy Project
task force member
Max Vernier
Chief Financial Officer
- Leads corporate and project finance, capital raising efforts, and treasury management
- 10 years of experience in banking and project finance, formerly a SVP with Live Oak Bank, starting a lending division focused on energy transition, sustainable infrastructure, and bioenergy/biofuels
- $2B of transaction experience in renewable energy involved with debt (loans and bonds), equity, tax equity, grants, and other types of financing
- Current Managing Partner in Virentis Advisors - consultant and capital advisor
- Current member of the Board of Directors of American Biogas Council and the Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition
James Tomlinson
Chief Operating Officer
- Leads operations, project management, engineering, and construction
- 30 years of experience in large scale energy system design, manufacturing, installation and operations, business development and field services
- Program manager and senior engineer with Cooper-Cameron, Solar Turbines and General Electric with specializations in gas compression/upgrading and utility scale power generation
Vance Kemler
Chief Resource Officer
- Leads feedstock analysis and optimization with decades of anaerobic digestion experience and background in zoology
- 30+ years in the waste sector: oversaw Waste Management, Galveston, Lubbock, Denton, Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority operations
- Nationally acclaimed best practices leader – received Distinguished Achievement Award from the Solid Waste Association of North America
- Published and implemented methane utilization research with University of Texas Arlington civil engineering department
Avery Duckwall
VP - Project Management
- Avery is a consultant within the renewable energy space and brings 9 years of relevant experience to the firm.
- Avery spent four years in a role where she led the Bioenergy construction management team that specialized in funds control and construction risk mitigation. She was responsible for origination, deal structure, supervising construction completion and startup commissioning, and aiding with special assets. Avery worked on renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure projects such as anaerobic digestion, composting, landfill gas, municipal wastewater treatment, waste de-packaging facilities, agroforestry, and bio-based product manufacturing.
- Prior to 2019, Avery was the lead asset manager of the Energy and Infrastructure group managing over $850mm in utility scale and community solar, sale-leasebacks, and bioenergy assets.
LET'S CONNECT
Join us in building the
circular economy
Our founding partners have over 75 years of experience in the waste and energy sectors. We are driving the transition from a linear economy to a sustainable circular economy.
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