President and Chief Executive Officer

Linda LaCroix PhD is responsible for maintaining the steady and consistent focus on the core principles of the enterprise: with overall responsibility to enable, lead, promulgate and grow the capacity, capabilities, competence, and relevance of the enterprise and the revenue streams it delivers to investors, the markets, and the people who forge them.

Dr. LaCroix leads the Company in the development of best-in-class large-scale energy, waste, water, and building infrastructure assets in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. LaCroix has decades of experience as an executive, operations management consultant, systems architect, and process re-engineer for organizations ranging from municipalities and regional governments to industry associations, and global corporations. She has specialized in the creation or reorganization of mission-critical operations, with an extensive track record of providing management, planning, information technology, logistics, distribution, or manufacturing solutions that provide more nimble and efficient operations for client companies ranging from destination resort developers/operators (Intrawest) to software/computer system developers (Sun Microsystems). As a business process re-engineer, her unique competencies in integrating multi-vertical systems has pioneered new approaches to client company operations and financial management platforms across industries, while providing analytics in support of institutional finance, risk mitigation and design engineering.

Dr. LaCroix holds a BA in Political Science and Philosophy, an MBA in Global Sustainable Business Management and Clean Energy Technologies, a Master of Environmental Law and Policy (summa cum laude), and PhD in Philosophy of Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Vice President Engineering

David L. Rainey, PhD is responsible for engineering and technology related matters to deliver, operate within, and augment sustainable outcomes to increase profitability, positive change in the communities we serve, and the influence we yield in the laboratories, on the markets and on public policy.

As an internationally recognized author, engineer, scientist and consultant, Dr. Rainey is a leading authority on today’s priorities in public & private sectors: renewable energy technologies, energy systems, power plant development, sustainable development, environment, health and safety (EH&S) management.

Dr. Rainey has over forty years of experience in energy-related industries. During his tenure in industry, he worked for four global corporations. In the 1970s, he worked for Combustion Engineering, Inc. (CE), Windsor, CT. His roles and responsibilities included stra-tegic planning, project manager, and research and development engineer. CEI was a Fortune 500 manufacturer of steam generating systems and pollution abatement equipment. In the early 1980s, he was Vice President of Wellman Thermal Systems Corporation (WTSC), Shelbyville, IN. WTSC was the U.S. subsidiary of Wellman Plc, London, UK. It specialized in industrial process equipment and energy systems for steel, automotive, aircraft, aluminum, and pulp and paper industries. During the mid-1980s, he was President and CEO of Chemap, Inc., Woodbury, NY. The company was a subsidiary of Alfa Laval AB, Stockholm, Sweden. It provided technologies, sys-tems and equipment for chemical, pharmaceutical, and energy industries. The technologies and systems included genetic engineer-ing, anaerobic wastewater treatment, and process technologies for alternative fuels (ethanol). During the early 1990s, he was Senior Vice President at GNA Furnaces, Inc., Montreal, Canada. GNA was a leading designer of industrial process equipment for the aluminum industry and a system provider of environmental abatement technologies. Such systems included air and water pollution abatement, hazardous waste remediation requirements, medical waste incineration systems, composting plants, and scrap tire recycling systems.

Dr. Rainey has advised and/or work with hundreds of companies and new ventures, including International Fuel Cells, United Tech-nologies Corporation (UTC), Siemens AG, Pennsylvania Power & Light, Sikorsky Aircraft, Toyota, BMW, AT&T, Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics, Lego, Pfizer, Inc., and others. He has advised many entrepreneurial companies: providing technical and economic analysis; developing business and project plans; and implementing development programs. He has worked on industrial and energy projects in Germany, France, UK, Sweden, Switzerland, Iran, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Israel, and Canada.

Over the course of his industrial and consulting experiences, he was involved in numerous energy and pollution abatement related projects. The following are a few examples of the projects that he was involved in:

• Design and development of a large-scale coal gasification prototype
• Construction and installation of integrated refinery at the National Iranian Oil Company’s refinery in Iran
• Installation of a biomass combustion system at Crown Zellerbach’s paper plant in Washington state
• Project management of a modernization project of Exxon’s Baton Rouge refinery
• Design of the combustion characteristics of mass-burn waste-to-energy plant
• Installation coal gasification syngas technologies in South Africa
• Design and installation of a dross recycling facility for Alcan, Montreal, Canada;
• Technical assessment for solving Alcan’s permitting problems at its aluminum plant in Owego, NY
• Development of a sustainability plan for UTC’s subsidiary in Poland
• Technical assessment of International Fuel Cells’ R&D programs
• Technical assessment for Pennsylvania Power & Light’s EH&S system.
• Development of energy programs for ABB, Windsor, CT
• Technical design aspects in developing cryogenic recycling systems for Tirex America.
• Development program pertaining to recycling plants for MTB, Lyon, France
• Develop program for wind turbine and energy systems, WECCAN, Inc. Montreal, Quebec,
• Energy efficiency project for processing scrap steel at Lukens Steel, Coatesville, PA
• Technical expertise in developing ISO9000 and ISO 14000 management systems.

Dr. Rainey currently provides support services for global corporations and new ventures. The projects, systems, services and types of ventures include a myriad of energy and environmental technologies, i.e. gas-to-liquid (natural gas to diesel), methanol, syngas, fuel cells, solar, wind turbines, gas turbines, pollution abatement, waste-to-energy, recycling systems, wastewater treatment, and numer-ous others. The scope of technical services includes: economic, environmental and technology assessments; feasibility studies; eco-nomic and financial projections with validation of information; business plans; project plans; due diligence; permit applications; pro-cess safety protocols; laws and regulations requirements; and, compliance determinations. For new ventures, the services also in-clude providing startup structures and systems and working with investors, financial institutions, potential customers, and guarantors.

Dr. Rainey holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering, an MBA, an MS in Engineering Science & Management, MBA, and PhD in Urban & Envi-ronmental Studies. He’s an accomplished author of 7 books and numerous technical publications, proprietary studies, frequent con-tributor to industry forums, and long-standing member of prestigious associations representing today’s evolving policies, advanced technologies and innovative solutions.

VP Legal Affairs and Chief Counsel

R. Randy Lee, Esq. has overall legal responsibilities over the Enterprise, providing insight and guidance on all aspects of corporate governance, the law, and regulatory policy impacting enterprise goals and operations. He is a key member of the policy team responsible for developing, implementing, and embedding new standards set by the work of the enterprise into market, academic, and policy institutions.

Mr. Lee is the principal of an active and well-regarded general practice law firm, with an emphasis on complicated business, real es-tate, land use and development matters. He has combined experience of almost 50 years working in the various phases of real estate and business development with a development portfolio of more than 5,000 residential and commercial projects. He has served as the Chairman of the Building Industry Association of New York City (BIANYC) and is currently the Senior Life Director of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). Mr. Lee also serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Staten Island Economic Development Corpora-tion and he has served as Chairman of SINY, NYS Title Attorneys Bar Association and the Urban Affordable Housing Coalition. As a long-standing Vice-president of the Jewish Community Center of Staten Island he managed the development and construction of its flag-ship building – a $40 million-dollar effort. In 2014 he founded and currently Chairs the SI/NYC Real Estate Development Roundtable.

In addition to Mr. Lee’s business, charitable and trade association responsibilities, he has been a visiting lecturer at the New York Uni-versity Real Estate Institute, Columbia University Graduate Real Estate Program, and the National Judicial College. He has also contrib-uted articles to the Wall St. Journal, New York and National Law Journals, New York State Bar Journal, New York Post, Real Estate Week-ly, Real Estate NY and The Empire State Report.

Mr. Lee attended New York University with a degree in Real Estate and Finance and received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. He is a Registered Construction Superintendent and General Contractor in the City of New York.

VP Environmental Law and Sustainability Policy

Ira Feldman has responsibility as Senior Council focusing on the portfolio side of the Enterprise. He provides insight and guidance on all aspects of environmental law, policy, and regulatory aspects (international and domestic) Arbor Point portfolios are intended to impact.

Mr. Feldman has over 25 years of experience as an attorney and management consultant focusing on environmental regulation, inno-vation, strategic environmental management, sustainable business practices, and corporate social responsibility He led in the devel-opment of corporate voluntary excellence programs, environmental performance tools and strategies, and international voluntary standards such as the ISO 14000 series, ISO 26000 and GRI. Previously, as Special Counsel at US EPA headquarters, he pioneered new enforcement settlement approaches; developed the Agency’s audit and self-disclosure policy; and was the architect of EPA’s first corporate voluntary excellence program.

Mr. Feldman currently serves on the advisory boards of diverse organizations such as the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), Sustainability Accounting Advisory Board (SASB), and the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute (GHGMI). He has long played a leading role in defining future domestic policy direc-tions through his participation in environmental management and sustainability policy initiatives such as the President’s Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) and the Multi-state Working Group on Environmental Performance (MSWG).

Mr. Feldman received his Bachelor and Master’s Degrees from University of Pennsylvania, and J.D. from Columbia University of Law, and he holds advanced certificates in Risk Assessment and Environmental Toxicology from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and in Management of Public and Not-for-Profit Organizations from Georgetown University School of Public Policy. He is a member of the Bar in New York State and the District of Columbia.