William Strauss is the President and founder of FutureMetrics, LLC. .  Bill is globally recognized as a leading expert in the wood pellet sector.  Bill continues to be a leader in the sector and has published numerous papers on a variety of subjects relevant to the wood pellet sector.  He is also a co-founder and a Director of Maine Energy Systems www.MaineEnergySystems.com , the largest manufacturer of European style automatic pellet fueled central heating systems in North America.  Bill has been named as one of the most influential leaders in the biomass sector in 2016 and again in 2017 by Argus Media, and is the 2012 recipient of the International Excellence in Bioenergy award.  He has more than forty years of strategic and policy planning, project management, data analysis, operations, and modeling experience in the renewable energy sector.  He has an MBA (specializing in finance) and a PhD (economics, earth systems science).

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John, often called “the grandfather of North American wood pellets,” is widely recognized as one of the leading experts in the wood pellet sector. John’s experience, wisdom, and history in pellet manufacturing is legendary. In 1994, John founded Pacific BioEnergy Corporation located in Prince George, British Columbia, where he successfully established one of Canada’s leading wood pellet exporters. In 1996, John was instrumental in establishing the Wood Pellet Association of Canada and served as its executive director from 2005-2009. He manufactured and shipped the first ever transatlantic shipment of pellets from North America (to Sweden) in 1997. John brings a broad range of wisdom and skills key to the sector from forest management, to pellet manufacturing, to logistics optimization, to negotiating shipping contracts. John is the recipient of the 2014 Founders Award at the International Biomass Conference.  John was honored with the “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the 2023 Argus Biomass conference in London.

Kayleigh is a process safety specialist with expertise in hazard analysis, combustible dust, and inherently safer design. She helps enhance industrial safety and reduce risk by identifying key opportunities for improvement and supporting the implementation of strategic action plans. She is a Lead Engineer at Jensen Hughes (Halifax), a global safety consulting firm. Kayleigh is a Professional Engineer and holds a Bachelor of Science (Chemistry, Honours), Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical), and Master of Applied Science (Chemical Engineering, Process Safety).