As an Indiana farm owner, Roland has an extensive background in agronomy, livestock husbandry, horticulture, and agri-business. Roland has managed a farm, cooperative, has teamed with Purdue writing a swine management software program, worked for John Deere in their AGRIS Ag-Tech management group, and was US sales manager for Hoogendoorn, a horticulture technical company designing computerized environmental control systems for greenhouses.

 

Roland manages finances for EcoTek, serves as EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) project manager, trains dealers and associates, directs equipment design, fabrication, installation, and commissioning. Additionally, Roland participates in daily management, engages in business development, sales, and marketing.

 

Roland holds the conviction that all humans are involved in agriculture, which means they all require food. Roland sees his God directed mission to be involved in this endeavor.

Troy has a strong science background with degrees in Biology, Chemistry and Microbiology from undergraduate and graduate programs at St. Joseph’s and the Indiana University School of Medicine. He used that foundation in technology development to implement equipment and processes geared for environmental sustainability across industries such as agriculture, hazardous commercial waste management and soil/sea remediation. In addition, Troy has worked with economic development agencies throughout the United States accessing available incentives and grants for project and business development.

 

Troy has owned, and operated companies over several decades with a focus on recycling, waste management and renewable fuels. As a nationally recognized entrepreneur, he was invited to partner with large companies in the corn-based ethanol industry to build a 100 million gallon per year plant as well as major landfill management firms for reuse of end-of-life mixed plastics to produce “closed loop” industrial products to achieve environmental sustainability goals.

 

Troy has spent the last several years co-developing technologies for dairy manure management to provide low cost effective liquid/solids separation centered on water reclamation, lagoon remediation and closure while reutilizing the concentrated manure solids for bedding and non-fossil based fertilizer.

Noel is an experienced international business leader with strengths in strategy development, implementation, coaching and delivering results. He brings skills in start-ups, turnarounds, business transformations as well organizational design/development and culture change. Noel has a breadth of functional experience across engineering / manufacturing / supply chain, commercial operations, human resources and corporate social responsibility. His functional experience spans multiple industries including animal health, technology, pharma/biotech and retail and he has led business initiatives that span across 5 continents.

Noel worked at Elanco Animal Health where he led the global business expansion for Elanco’s Dairy & Poultry business into East Africa (Kenya, Uganda & Tanzania) and also served on the Strategy Committee for the East Africa Dairy Development Project with The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Heifer International. Finally, Noel received his Bachelor's in Civil Engineering and MBA from Purdue University and worked for Lilly in a career that spanned over 28 years.

An active community leader, Noel has served as Board Member of Project Leadership Service and the Indy Hunger Network and President of India Association of Indianapolis.