About us

Terri has 30 years of experience in Solid Waste and Recycling, including capital equipment acquisition and sales; facility construction and operations; and consulting engineering. Much of her tenure was with SSI Shredding Systems, promoting size reduction technology and related systems. She has been involved in applications and solutions development; product and plant design; and process optimization. She has placed equipment in some of the world's largest Material Recovery Facilities and Waste Energy plants and in some of the most challenging environments. She holds a MBA and is an active board member for the national Construction and Demolition Recycling Association. Terri uses her broad skill set and deep knowledge to collaborate with clients, anticipate needs and deliver results.

Chris has lead our Engineering & Operations group since the beginning of the company in 2013. He is a graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada engineering program, and the Queen’s University Executive MBA program. Chris served in the Canadian military for 9 years, including a deployment in the Middle East. He subsequently co-founded a number of companies, all with the focus on the commercialization of new technologies. He has been involved in a variety of projects globally, including leading UN project engineering teams in Africa and Central America in developing renewal energy projects in least developed countries. Chris brings a proven track record of technology and project development, in the international arena. Chris has personally recruited the entire engineering and operations management team, and leads them with the credo “failure is not an option”.

With 25 years of industrial process and equipment manufacturing experience, Michael leads our product development and systems integration team. He served for years managing technical sales and equipment outsourcing for Machinex Group and nearly a decade with metals recovery technology OEM, Steinert, where he was a senior application specialist and led their Solution Sales team. He is well-know for his ability to deploy complementary technologies, solve complex problems with "real-world" solutions, and successfully manage large-scale projects to a successful conclusion.

Peter leads on strategy; senior recruitment and fundraising. A Bermuda resident, he recently retired as non-executive chairman of the Bermuda Hospitals Board where the 1,750 staff provide the sole hospital services to Bermuda. In that role Peter led them through the creation of their strategic plan and recruited world class individuals as Chief of Staff and CFO. A 35 year career in financial services primarily with Schroders PLC covered investment banking, private banking and alternatives.

Widely respected and experienced, a Chartered Accountant, Alan leads our finance and administration team. A distinguished career with Fidelity Investments International saw him open businesses in Australia, Luxembourg and Canada. A New Zealander, he was headhunted by the British Government to lead the start up of the Pension Protection Fund as the Executive Director of Operations. Alan subsequently served as the Dean for the School of Business at the University of Prince Edward Island and taught their MBA program.

John is currently part time with TORXX where he is responsible for developing our go to market strategy for Europe. A 30 year veteran in financial services software, John was CEO of a VC backed software and payments processing company, growing revenue 300% and successfully selling the company for 6 times revenue.

Don serves as an advisor, with over 35 years of experience in the solid waste and recycling industry. After selling his hauling business in the mid 80’s, he led various hauling operations in the Mid Atlantic market, including opening and managing one of the largest rail transfer operations on the East Coast. Don then moved to Florida, becoming an Area VP for WM in the SW Florida and N Florida markets. He managed landfills, recycling centers, transfer stations and hauling companies totaling $150 million in annual revenues, as well as the $48 million clean-up of 4 storms in 100 days in 2004. Otto Environmental called on him in 2014 to lead their sales team to record growth. As a part of the Senior Leadership team, he participated in the double-digit expansion of the company. Don brings his deep operational experience to match customer needs to the unique qualities of the TORXX technology, to lower costs and maximize profit. He believes that we can produce industry changing results and put our customers in lead positions throughout the country.

Skip brings 14 years of extensive experience in the design and manufacture of waste handling machinery and waste processing equipment and has been involved with multiple waste-to-energy technologies. He is well versed in product development and core product enhancements. Skip leads the design engineering and manufacturing team and also plays a key role in equipment installation of the TORXX Kinetic Pulverizer® and supporting systems.

Steven is our Senior Design and Manufacturing Engineer. He is the newest member of the TORXX team and is the lead designer on all things KP related. Steven has over 20 years of design and manufacturing experience, primarily in the heavy mobile equipment industry. He has lead many projects through concept, design, prototyping, testing and manufacturing.

Sheri brings many years of operations management experience to TORXX. She is the friendly voice behind all things service and logistics related.

Tony is our lead service technician, and the friendly face onsite, or on the phone, troubleshooting and servicing all things mechanical and electrical in a TORXX system. He brings 14 years of field service experience on a wide variety of waste and recycling industry equipment and processing machinery.