William M. Crossland, B. Sc, MBA
President & CEO; Director
Mr. Crossland was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Thermal Energy International Inc. on August 7, 2009. 
He is an accomplished corporate finance and corporate development professional with over 20 years experience successfully executing a broad range of debt, equity and merger and corporate acquisition transactions. Previously as Managing Director of Corporate and Investment Banking at a major Canadian bank, and more recently as an independent consultant, his focus was assisting renewable and alternative energy and clean tech companies execute their business plans and realize their full potential. This assistance included: capital structuring, public and private debt and equity financing, project development and finance, merger and acquisition execution and advisory, strategic advisory, general management and Board of Directors and Advisory Board roles. As a result his experience in this sector encompasses more than 20 equity, debt and corporate development transactions totaling over $2 billion with a wide range of alternative energy companies, projects and technologies including hydro, wind, biomass, starch based ethanol, cellulosic ethanol, landfill gas to electricity, municipal solid waste electricity, heat recovery and biogas.
Julia Flynn, ACA, LLB
Chief Financial Officer
Julia Flynn was appointed Chief Financial Officer for Thermal Energy on November 2, 2009. Prior to Ms. Flynn’s appointment as Chief Financial Officer, she was Director of Finance and Operations for the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary Gardner Energy Management Ltd. (“GEM”). Since qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1995, she has played an integral role in the financial and strategic planning process of number of organisations from small private companies to large multinational corporations. As Director of Finance and Operations for GEM, Ms. Flynn introduced a comprehensive monthly financial reporting system and put into place detailed procedures and cost controls to maintain and strengthen the security of the Gardner Energy Management Ltd’s business. In addition to her Chartered Accountant designation Ms. Flynn holds an Honours law degree.
Robert Triebe, M.A.Sc., P.Eng
Chief Operating Officer, The Americas & Asia
Robert Triebe was appointed Chief Operating Officer responsible for the Americas and Asia on November 2, 2009. 
He has worked in varying capacities since first joining the Company in 1993. His responsibilities have ranged from research and development, to project design and implementation to his more recent efforts managing the North American and Asian sales team. Mr. Triebe is a Professional Engineer and obtained his B.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and his M.A.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Ottawa. He has nearly 20 years of energy and environment sales and engineering experience, specializing in energy and water efficiency systems. His expertise has been derived from the large number and millions of dollars, of energy and water conservation projects completed in industrial, institutional, and commercial facilities. Prior to Thermal Energy Mr. Triebe developed and managed the corporate Environmental Process Engineering group with Jacques Whitford Environment Limited (now Stantec Inc.). He is recognized as a technical and business expert in environmental technologies as demonstrated by his ongoing work as an Expert Reviewer with the Sustainable Development Technology Corporation (SDTC), reviewing applications for funding of environmental technologies on behalf of the SDTC and the Canadian government.
Grant Bailey
Director of Sales and Marketing, Europe, Africa and Australasia
Grant Bailey has been appointed Director of Sales and Marketing responsible for Europe, Africa, Australasia and the rest of the world outside the Americas and Asia. 
Mr. Bailey, a respected member of the GEM team since April 2004, has always taken a leading role in sales development for the Company and has consistently grown sales throughout his tenure in all his areas of responsibility. Prior to his appointment as Director of Sales and Marketing Mr. Bailey was the Company’s Global Key Account Manager for our corporate level multi-national accounts. This role provided Mr. Bailey firsthand knowledge of agents, distributors and business practices throughout the world. Mr. Bailey started his career at the Atomic Weapons Establishment for the Ministry of Defence as a Mechanical Engineering Apprentice, whilst completing his Higher BTEC. Working up from the shop floor, he has since developed with over 20 years of industrial sales and sales management experience with distributors and manufacturers across many related fields. Grant’s global knowledge and experience and his corporate level sales approach will greatly benefit the Company’s strategy to leverage sales by expanding our geographical reach and cross selling our products through strong corporate level customer relationships.
Sam Mawby, MEng
Director of Technology
Sam Mawby was appointed as Technical Director for TEI’s GEM® Trap product range following the purchase of Gardner Energy Management in 2008. Mr. Mawby started his career at GEM® in 2001 on a student placement while studying for his Masters in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wales, Swansea. Following completion of his degree, he became a full time member of the GEM® team. He worked closely with the inventor of the GEM® Trap and together they expanded the product range, strengthened the supply chain and extended the sales network into new territories. 
During the past 8 years Mr. Mawby has been involved in all areas of the business: developing new products; technical improvements; the quality management system; as well as customer and supplier relationships. Mr. Mawby is currently responsible for the technical and production areas of the GEM® Trap business, in addition to developing and fulfilling sales in the Middle East and the Petrochem sector. His skills and experience are regularly called upon throughout the world to provide training and to solve technical problems, as such he has travelled extensively, attempting to schedule in surf trips wherever possible. Mr. Mawby’s intimate knowledge of the product ensures a sound base for development worldwide.
Michel Francoeur, P.Eng.
Engineering Manager
Michel Francoeur was appointed Engineering Manager for Thermal Energy, Americas and Asia in May 2008. He is a professional engineer and obtained his degree in mechanical engineering from Carleton University in 1995. Mr. Francoeur has over twelve years experience developing and implementing heat recovery projects for Thermal Energy across the institutional, commercial and industrial sectors. He is an expert in condensing heat recovery and has knowledge of a wide range of industries including pulp and paper, waste water treatment, food and beverage, automotive and health care. In 2004 Mr. Francoeur spent two years with Mabarex Inc. developing and implementing biomass drying projects including the construction of a Dry-Rex™ sludge drying facility in Kamloops, BC. When the Dry-Rex™ technology was acquired by Thermal Energy in 2006 he rejoined the company and led the development of a test facility used to model the drying behavior of materials which has since served clients in the ethanol, power generation and pulp and paper industries. Mr. Francoeur has been a key contributor in developing over $10 million dollars in business in the pulp and paper industry and has presented Thermal Energy’s award winning projects to the Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada.