Key Staff

Joyce Davis, P.E.      President / CEO

Joyce Davis is a registered professional engineer in the State of California specializing in civil and site engineering for public works and private development projects. She has extensive experience in the research, planning, design, and construction administration of projects including large commercial and industrial developments, prisons and other justice system facilities, subdivisions and planned communities, and streets and roadways.  Ms. Davis has served as project manager and project engineer on a variety of projects ranging in cost from under $1 million to over $50 million.  In her capacity as project manager on numerous large, complex site development projects, Ms. Davis has supervised multi-disciplinary teams, including environmental, geotechnical, civil, mechanical and electrical engineers, architects and surveyors. She has also been responsible for engineering design and calculations, specifications, storm water pollution prevention plans and water control programs, constructability reviews, and overall quality assurance.

Michael Theroux     Vice President

Michael Theroux is a California Registered Environmental Health Specialist (retired) with more than 35 years of diverse environmental planning and resource management, multiple use permitting and regulatory compliance experience. He has served as coordinator for project development, feasibility analysis, facility siting, permitting, right-of-way acquisition, and utilities research for many large-scale, long term municipal, institutional and industrial projects. He is dedicated to advancing resource recovery through the clean conversion of waste into renewable energy, fuels and bioproducts, and to the commercialization and vertical integration of advanced Conversion Technologies (CTs).

Developing and implementing a diverse, renewable, economical and environmentally sane national energy program at the local and regional levels are specific long-term personal goals. Mr. Theroux maintains a proprietary global database of CTs and ancillary subsystems, along with the industries, agencies, institutions and associations pertinent to this industrial sector. He has launched an industrial advocacy website, www.terutalk.com, to incite and inform the on-going public/private dialogue focused on conversion of waste for resource recovery.

Mr. Theroux is focused on providing clear guidance through the industrial and regulatory intricacies of waste management, resource recovery and implementation of distributed renewable energy generation. He is proficient in state and federal regulatory pathway interpretation and development, multi-task integration and document preparation through permit application and approval. Long-standing excellent relations with California’s regulatory community provides the inside understanding needed to avoid difficulties and streamline environmental quality compliance. He has developed State and Congressional legislative relations, provided and organized Briefings, and engaged directly in the legislative process advancing key bills related to waste conversion and resource recovery.

Mr. Theroux served for five years as a technical and regulatory specialist on the Alternative Technology Advisory Subcommittee (2003-2008) to the Los Angeles County Integrated Waste Management Task Force, providing guidance throughout Phase I, Phase II and during development and planning of Phase III and IV of the Conversion Technology program for Southern California. Services included global assessment of hundreds of advanced conversion technologies to determine efficacy of systems for ultra-clean, community-scaled conversion of municipal solid waste (especially post-recycling residuals) into energy, fuels and co-products. Mr. Theroux assisted with development of technology assessment criteria, ranking procedures, and methods of comparison; provided regulatory path analysis and guidance; identified and assessed concurrent national and international programs and policies; provided guidance to defining the difference between “conversion” and “incineration”.