Greenlane Renewables names new CEO, board members

Greenlane Renewables Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, has appointed outgoing CEO Brad Douville to the newly created role of vice chair of the board of directors and appointed Ian Kane president and CEO.

Douville will continuing to serve as executive vice chair of the board, as well.

“Greenlane has grown rapidly over the past four years, and we are now resetting our strategic plan for the next stage of growth,” Douville says. “The Board has approved our new strategic plan, which foresees Greenlane’s further evolution as an industry leader, delivering operational excellence, industry-leading products and strong financial performance. A pillar of this strategic plan is adding a proven leader with experience in creating operating leverage in the environment of rapid growth we’ve had and expect to see over the next number of years. The executive vice chair role is full time and over the next few years my mandate will be to assure that the full potential of the most important strategic opportunities are realized.”

Kane has also been appointed to the company’s board of directors.

“I’ve been fortunate to have a great deal of experience helping companies optimize growth and financial performance after the startup phase,” Kane says. “It is a great time to join Greenlane, and I’m looking forward to working with the team to achieve their ambitious goals. I believe that Greenlane offers an important path to accelerate the decarbonization of global energy and I’m proud to join its leadership.”

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Douville continues to bring to Greenlane his extensive experience and proven track record in the renewable natural gas (RNG) industry. With a strong strategic vision and a deep understanding of biogas upgrading technology and the overall RNG industry, the company says he is poised to drive Greenlane’s continued growth and success, focusing on key strategic initiatives aiming to unlock the untapped potential that the company sees in the global RNG industry.

As the president and CEO of Vancouver-based Excell Battery, Kane has been responsible for all aspects of the product design and manufacturing business, including defining the global growth strategy and diversifying markets and product range. His growth strategy over three years resulted in double-digit revenue and net income growth. Kane was actively involved in the sale of Excell Battery to Ultralife Corp.

Prior to Excell, he was the president of Alpha Technologies, a 420-employee company demonstrating 15 organic revenue growth ($180 million) year on year. Kane was actively involved in the sale of Alpha Technologies to EnerSys.

He also served as a vice president at Talisman Energy, Calgary, Alberta, where he was responsible for safely managing daily oil and natural gas production and processing of up to 25,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. That company was acquired in 2015 by the Spanish integrated energy company Repsol.

Greenlane Renewables is a pioneer in the growing RNG industry. As a global provider of biogas upgrading systems, the firm helps to clean up two of the largest and most difficult to decarbonize sectors of the global energy system: the natural gas grid and the commercial transportation sector. The company uses three technologies in its systems: waterwash, pressure swing adsorption and membrane separation. Greenlane produces RNG from landfill gas, wastewater treatment plants, agricultural sources and food waste streams. The company was founded in 1986 and installed it first biogas facility in France in 1993.