Management Team
Our management team has vast experience in the identification of applicable technologies and the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects. Bringing a unique blend of innovative application of the right technology to the right challenge, we provide consistent results. MaxWest Environmental Systems is just beginning, but it is being built on the knowledge, experience and reliability of our management team.
Richard Heien, President
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Mr. Heien is the former president and principal owner of Northern Engineering, Inc. in Houston, Texas, and former vice president of Enron Engineering & Construction Company. Mr. Heien has 25 years of experience in the development, acquisition, construction, operations and financing of energy industry assets and was directly involved in the completion of over $2.5 billion of various complex operating facilities. Mr. Heien is a founding principal of MaxEn Capital, LLC.
Marvin Kempston, President, Canadian Operations
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Mr. Kempston is President of Westwood Fibre LTD and Westwood Energy Systems, Inc. He spent ten years in senior positions with leading forestry companies before forming Westwood Fibre in 1976 and Westwood Energy in 2004. Westwood provides forest management services for private and crown timberlands including planning, road construction, harvesting and log sales through to reforestation.
Erik Herbst, Chief Operating Officer
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Mr. Herbst is the former Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for MG North America Holdings, the holding company for the U.S. based businesses of Metallgesellschaft AG, Frankfurt, Germany. As an external advisor and corporate development executive, Mr. Herbst has over 25 years of broad based operating experience in the areas of strategy development and implementation, acquisitions, capital formation, business and project development, and operational planning and restructuring. This experience includes international and domestic concerns extending across a variety of industries including energy, alternative energy, energy services, trading, engineering and construction, process equipment, and specialty chemicals and metals.
Darrell Ford, Vice President
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Mr. Ford is also Vice President of Manufacturing for Westwood Energy Systems and brings extensive experience in areas such as economic/viability modeling, budgetary quotations, contract bid packaging, conceptual technology development, accounting, purchasing, quality control, IP and patent management, technology licensing management and dealer network management. He also brings significant project management and technical expertise to the MaxWest team.
Don Fitch, Vice President, Special Projects
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Mr. Fitch is the former Vice President of Public Affairs for Browning Ferris Industries (now Allied Waste) where he managed their marketing communications world wide from 1977 to 1991. He is well known in political, environmental, and business communities throughout the USA. Prior to BFI, Mr. Fitch held positions with Coca Cola, Swanson Foods, and Campbell Soup. Mr. Fitch is a member of the Board of Directors of several operating companies, foundations, civic institutions, and charities.
William Baker, Vice President, Marketing
wbaker@MaxWestEnergy.com
Mr. Baker is a long time Florida resident, lawyer, real estate developer, land developer and conservation consultant. He practiced real estate, finance, and land use law in Orlando, Florida from 1966 -1992, and was a founding partner (1969) of Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed. Mr. Baker is a Principal of Baker –Arrington, LLC, co-developers of MaxWest System gasification facilities in Florida and other southeastern states.