Bioenergy Devco expands executive leadership

Bioenergy Devco, an Annapolis, Maryland-based company specializing in constructing and managing anaerobic digestion facilities, has announced three changes to its executive leadership team. The company has appointed three executives to new positions to assist the company's transition into its next phase of business operations and set the stage for rapid project development.

Leading the deployment of advanced anaerobic digestion in the U.S. is Sylvia Hendron, who will become the company’s chief development officer. Hendron brings more than 20 years of professional engineering, construction, project development, operations and senior management experience in geo-environmental consulting, environmental construction and the renewable energy industry.

As chief development officer, Hendron will focus on company growth, product development and innovative partnerships. From municipalities and large food companies striving to implement zero-waste best practices to energy and utility companies looking for reliable sources of renewable energy, Hendron will ensure Bioenergy’s sustainable solutions meet market demand for advanced organics recycling.

BDC also has announced two new promotions within the executive leadership team:

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Peter Ettinger will serve as chief strategy officer. Ettinger’s focus is a range of external affairs activities, including aligning projects to the company's vision and expansion plans, as well as overseeing Bioenergy's sustainability, public affairs and policy and government relations efforts. Ettinger previously served as chief development officer at the company.

R. McClain Porter will serve as chief commercial officer. Porter previously worked as Bioenergy’s senior director of energy. Porter's new role will focus on ensuring the commercial success of each project. As a project takes shape from its nascent stage, the commercial team is charged with objectively analyzing the economic viability of the development and commercializing projects with feedstock supply and energy offtake contracts. The primary goal is to gear the company's deployment of development resources to augment projects' economics and biological operations.

"As we continue to advance new biogas opportunities throughout the United States and Europe, these talented leaders will be instrumental in the development, engineering, construction and operations of anaerobic digestion facilities,” says Shawn Kreloff, founder and CEO of Bioenergy. “Their expertise will be essential in ensuring the viability of each site's economics, biological operations and the commercial success of each project. Our growing team is ready to meet our partners' increasing demand for dependable, well-designed and high-quality facilities to handle a range of organic recycling requirements."