Team Glanris

 
 

LEADERSHIP TEAM


Bryan M. Eagle III – CEO, Co-Founder

Bryan lead the development of Glanris' biochar application development, including the patents on rice hull biochar in water filtration and work done in biochar in cement, inoculated soil amendments, and tire productions.  With BET, he helped design their rice hull kiln.

Before Glanris, Bryan ran his consulting/investment company, Memphis Ventures.  His primary focus was helping telecom/IoT companies.  He has also helped start-ups since 1999 through the non-profit incubator he created, Emerge Memphis, and its subsequent venture fund. His experience with IoT systems began when he founded Skywire in 1993 to develop remote monitoring systems.  Skywire designed, developed, and patented Coca-Cola’s first intelligent vending platform, which is still used on millions of machines worldwide.  He sold Skywire to Marconi Online Systems in 1998.  After Skywire, his next start-up was Media4, which he helped sell to EchoStar in 1999.  Bryan holds a BA from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Columbia University.

Jason Inoff - COO

Jason has been a partner in Biomass Power Corp (BPC) since 2019 carrying out his role in business development and strategic relationships in the renewable energy space. He brings extensive knowledge of biochar, carbon credits, feedstock sourcing and contracting, PPA negotiation and operational efficiencies. Significant focus on ancillary revenue stream generation, project finance, tax finance and tax credit monetization.

Before, Jason was the founder and CFO of North American Recovery Management (NARM) where he raised $50MM for the acquisition, demolition, salvage and redevelopment of retired industrial assets. He has working relationships with many industrial firms, such as utilities, paper mills, large scale manufacturers and Industrial developers. Strong business development and consulting work for all stages of project development from concept to operation. Coordinated the operations of major industrial deconstruction projects all over the country. Ran major efforts to liquidate equipment and assets globally while managing demo and abatement projects. Extensive experience navigating gov’t agencies for clean up and compliance. Jason has a BA from the University of Texas

Frank A. Brigano, Ph.D., – Chief Science Officer

Dr. Brigano has extensive experience in water treatment and has led Research, Engineering, Product Development and Quality efforts for Point-of-Use (POU), Point-of-Entry (POE), Small Municipal Systems and Commercial Products for Olin Corporation, Culligan International, KX Technologies and Marmon Water.  Frank was instrumental identifying and acquiring new technologies for these respective entities.  In addition, for the Marmon Water Group of Companies a Berkshire Hathaway Co. he established and led the Marmon Water Innovation Center located in the International Center for Clean Water of IIT-Madras, Chennai, India.  He has numerous patents and publications.

 Frank has served as Member and Vice-Chairman of the NSF International Drinking Water Treatment Unit Joint Committee and Chairman of the NSF International Certification Council.  Dr. Brigano served on the Water Quality Research Foundation (WQRF) Board of Directors and led a WQRF research effort.  

Dr. Brigano is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement/Membership and Merit Awards from the Water Quality Association (WQA) and was recognized as an “Industry Icon” for 2020 by Water Quality Products Magazine.  

Andrew Grant – Engineering 

Andrew has 30 years’ of experience in power and process plants, starting with coal gasification plants. He introduced fluid bed boilers to the US, and was responsible for small power plant performance, engineering, estimating and permits at Babcock & Wilcox, including biomass and MSW. He was VP Customer Development at Zurn Energy, ran CHP projects at FirstEnergy and consulted for Ontario Hydro before starting his own biomass power consulting business. Currently working on garbage to jet fuel projects, RNG, gasification and pyrolysis.

Some of Andrews highlights also include project director for 500,000 T/yr conversion of 55 MW coal plant to biomass, CA 5 MW BioMAT project using forestry wastes, partner and EPC manager, Feasibility study for 5MW BioMAT at SunValley Rice Co., Arbuckle CA; EPC manager, air permit, interconnection, engineering and construction contractors. Andrew has a B.A., M.A., in Natural Sciences and Economics, University of Cambridge

Andrew Forsdick – CFO (Fractional) 

Andrew combines the discipline and background of accounting with creative strategic thinking and has spent the bulk of his career fulfilling the senior finance role in several companies. For over 10 years he's worked primarily with early stage and start up companies and served many of these as an outsourced CFO.  

Mr. Forsdick spent five years with Coopers & Lybrand and PricewaterhouseCoopers working with manufacturing, government, finance and healthcare clients. Upon leaving there, he worked as an investment advisor to individuals and actively worked with portfolio companies primarily in technology. In addition, he has spent time working as the Manager of External Financial Reporting for a Fortune 500 public company. 

Mr. Forsdick founded Addison Capital Advisors in 2004 to work with private companies providing accounting, financial and management services.  ACA primarily worked with start-up and early stage companies serving as an advisor and outsourced their accounting, finance and other administrative functions. In 2011, he became CEO of a portfolio company, Vivicast Media & Entertainment Group, Inc. where he continues today in addition to working with early stage and start up companies through Sage Business Advisors. 

Mr. Forsdick graduated from Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL, with degrees in Accounting and Philosophy and received his MBA from Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN. He is active with various non-profits including serving on boards in leadership positions. He resides in Memphis, TN with his wife and three children. 

 
 

Advisors + Board

 

Gaëtane Suzenet - Senior Advisor

Gaëtane Suzenet holds 25 years of experience in the water and wastewater sector at the European and international levels. She has developed expertise in open innovation strategies, policy review and development, technology benchmark, business strategy development, and access to public and private financing.

Gaëtane has been working with European and international institutions, start-ups, SMEs, utilities, technology providers and academics. She is currently Managing Partner of International Impact Partners, an international advisory company, which assists companies from research exploitation to market access.

Previously, Gaëtane was Managing Director of the French Cluster DREAM “Water and Environment”. In this capacity, she advised SMEs on their business development strategy and assisted them in accessing public and private funding. She acted as Venture Advisor with Aster Capital, an international venture capital fund with $300M under management. Gaëtane was also a member of the Investment Advisory Committee of the "FPCI Emergence Innovation 1" seed fund within SOFIMAC Innovation ($800M under management). She also worked in collaboration with international private equity funds and infrastructure funds when she was Director of European Affairs at WATER UK.

Gaëtane sits on the Executive Committee of the European Innovation Partnership on Water, under the aegis of the European Commission. She is Knight of the French National Order of Merit.

Mike Reardon  - Senior Advisor

Mike was one of the founders of United States Filter Corporation, a Fortune 500 company (NYSE: USF). He has led some of the premier names in the business including U.S. Filter, Culligan, Everpure.  Mike is a CPA and a graduate of California State Polytechnic University and the Kellogg Management Institute at Northwestern University.

Courtney Allen Weinstein - Strategy + BD

Courtney has 7+ years of experience advising venture capital firms (up to $2 billion in assets under management) on ESG, and early-stage sustainability-focused startups.

As a consultant, Courtney has led innovation, strategy, and product development for multiple tech startups. Previously, she was a Senior Research Manager at GLG, a financial services firm focused on professional learning and fundamental research for buy-side asset managers. At GLG, Courtney managed a portfolio of hedge fund clients totaling $20+ billion in assets under management. During graduate school, Courtney spent a full year interning at the United Nations headquarters in NYC with UNICEF and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. She started her career as a high school teacher and nonprofit fundraiser. Courtney has worked with NGOs around the world and traveled to 43 countries. 

Courtney is passionate about triggering change and empowering people, and loves helping clients "build the plane while it's flying". She has a Master of Arts in International Educational Development from the Teachers College at Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Science in English Education from Indiana University.