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About UsInfinity Energy's principals are project development and construction management experts, with over 30 years combined experience in the alternative and renewable energies field in numerous management and implementation capacities.ManagementRichard L. Franks - Chief Executive Officer & DirectorIn addition to 15 years in the alternative fuels industry, Richard Franks has served in a dual capacity as operations manager and in-house legal counsel - both domestically and internationally - for construction firms, waste handling and processing companies and large commercial composting companies. Most recently, he was a principal partner in the start up and commissioning of a municipal solid waste (MSW) to energy gasification plant in Europe. Richard's career highlights include serving as the VP of Project Development, COO and General Counsel of Phoenix Waste Services Company, Inc., a company that built composting plants and transported municipal solid waste; the Project Director and Chief Legal Counsel on a $100 million U.S. aid financed infrastructure project in Egypt for Thames Water PLC, based in London, and it's subsidiary LA Water Treatment Corp, that included three water treatment plants in Egypt; managed sales, operations and legal services for Waste Solutions, Inc in Houston, Texas, a turn-key supplier of in-vessel composting plants. In addition to his project development and construction management skills, Richard is a licensed attorney and former judge specializing in construction law, contract administration and drafting. Travis K. Robinson - President & Director Before joining Infinity as a Principal, Travis Robinson served as a consultant to starts-ups and technology providers in renewable energy and the rapidly emerging clean-tech industry under Robinson Environmental Corporation. From 2002 until 2005, he was the Director of Business Development for L&R Energy Company, LLC, an international energy and technology company specializing in waste-to-energy power plants. At L&R Energy, Travis co-managed the delivery and start-up of a 6.6 megawatt gasification energy plant for a facility in northern Italy, working with Richard Franks. From 1995 to 2002, he was the Director of US Operations and Director of Sales for German companies providing industrial automotive safety equipment. Travis earned a Bachelor of Science in International Business and Marketing from the University of Colorado, Boulder, has extensive experience in upper level management and operations and over a decade in sales, marketing and key account management. Over the past five years, he has developed close relationships with major clean-tech funds and equity sources for project financing. In the past year he managed the merger of two clean-tech start-up entities into one company with full SEC compliance. David R. Ross - Project Development Manager David Ross has a Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurial Management from the University of South Carolina, and has worked in the alternative fuels industry for the past seven years, most recently, working with Richard Franks as a project developer, researcher and coordinator for a predecessor to Infinity Energy, Inc. Prior to his development work in renewable energy, David was the Director of Operations for Power Services Associates, Inc. a consulting and engineering firm in Atlanta serving the power plant industry. His expertise includes project research and analysis, including evaluation of project viability, project budgeting and modeling, information technology acquisition and organization, and project development coordination and management. |