At Camco North America, our team is highly experienced in turning our clients’ liabilities into economic, social and environmental assets in today’s marketplace.Jim Wiest - Managing DirectorJim assisted with the development and implementation of Camco’s expansion into North America in 2007. He is currently responsible for Camco’s North American overall business strategy and oversees all North American operations.Jim has over 20 years of transactional experience in the finance sector with a focus on mergers, acquisitions and institutional development financing. Prior to joining Camco, Jim was the Founder and Managing Director of an investment banking company focused on securing equity and debt financing for large scale commercial real estate development ventures and renewable energy projects.Jim received his accounting degree from Colorado State University and practiced as a Certified Public Accountant, with his last accounting position as a Senior Manager at Ernst & Young, LLP.Andrew Jackura - Senior Vice President, Business DevelopmentAndrew has over 28 years of professional experience improving the efficiency and environmental performance of large industrial facilities with 17 years in the building materials industry. He served as the VP of Environmental Affairs, VP of Process Technology and Energy, Regional VP of Manufacturing for 5 cement plants, and Director of Reliability and Engineering for CEMEX and Southdown. Andrew has also worked for ALCOA, where he served as Chief Engineer for a 3-unit 400 MW lignite-fired power plant and also as head of maintenance operations for a 4-station hydro-electric utility. His work includes projects for indirect firing coal and pet-coke, oxygen-enriched combustion and the application of computational fluid dynamics and physical modeling to solve aerodynamic, mixing, and combustion problems. His project work includes waste heat co-generation, SNCR systems, fuel preparation plants, fire suppression systems, burner replacement, and numerous kiln and mill expansion projects. He has developed low-carbon energy strategies and technology evolution plans for large, energy-intensive manufacturing systems. Andrew also has extensive reliability engineering and maintenance management experience and has performed root cause failure investigations on turbines, generators, boilers, gear drives, compressors, kilns, mills, and crushers. Andrew holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also one of the authors of The Cement Plant Operations Handbook - 2nd, 3rd, 4th, & 5th editions.Charles Purshouse - Vice President, Carbon ServicesCharles leads Camco’s North American carbon group, managing a dedicated team focused on project origination and qualification, as well as commercialization of carbon offsets in the North American voluntary and pre-compliance markets. With over 5 years’ experience, Charles is Vice President of the Coalition for Emissions Reduction Policy (CERP) and previously ran the Flexible Mechanisms working group of the Carbon Markets & Investors Association (CMIA). Prior to heading up the North American team, Charles was Associate Director of Climate Change Policy and Strategy for Camco in the U.K. providing technical and policy assistance to Camco’s regional teams around the globe and representing Camco in climate change policy negotiations at the EU and international level. Before joining Camco in 2006, Charles worked in the financial markets in Asia, for Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong. Charles is based in Camco’s offices in Colorado and holds a M.Sc. in Environmental Technology (with distinction) from Imperial College London.Wiley Barbour - Vice President, Corporate DevelopmentWiley has spent the last 20 years of his career providing technical and policy support to governments, corporations and nonprofit clients on issues related to air pollution, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, corporate climate change strategy and environmental markets. Wiley previously served in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Policy Office. At the EPA, he directed the U.S. Government’s Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory Program and provided policy analysis in support of international negotiations on climate change. Wiley contributed to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, chairing several expert groups while developing the IPCC Guidelines for National GHG Inventories, and the IPCC Good Practice Guidance. In recognition for his contributions, Wiley was officially notified that he shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with IPCC colleagues around the globe. Wiley has also worked for 6 years as a consultant and senior air pollution engineer at Radian Corporation and served with the State of Florida’s Department of Environmental Regulation as a landfill inspector. Wiley is a licensed environmental engineer and lives in Northern Virginia inside the Washington DC beltway. He holds a B.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Florida. Andy Dvoracek - Vice President, Biogas DevelopmentAndy specializes in the origination and development of biogas projects. He has a wide range of experience in agricultural/industrial wastewater, methane avoidance based renewable energy, coalmine methane, biogas to pipeline quality gas conditioning and energy efficiency projects. Andy also has extensive international knowledge of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), global voluntary carbon markets and the North American carbon markets. Andy has worked in plant operations, project development, due diligence, emission trading and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Camco, he worked as the Director at Element Markets, LLC where he managed North American biogas/emissions origination and the operations at the Huckabay Ridge biogas plant, the largest biogas to pipeline quality gas project in North America. As Sr. Client Manager at EcoSecurities, Andy managed both domestic and international emission reduction projects. He has also worked within Swiss Re’s greenhouse gas/renewable markets division and as a consultant for the United Nations Division for Sustainable Development. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Environmental Science from Saint John’s University (MN) and a Masters of Public Administration in Environmental Policy and Management from Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs (SIPA).Garth Boyd - Senior Vice President, AgricultureGarth, Ph.D., PAS works with agribusiness and food companies on renewable energy project development, carbon strategy, assessment, life cycle analysis of products and asset development.Garth has 35 years' experience working in animal agriculture. His experience includes, serving as Director of Environmental Technology for Smithfield Foods from 2001-2006. Prior to working with Smithfield Foods, Garth was Director of Land and Nutrient Management for Murphy Farms, where he led that company into the era of on-farm environmental training, auditing, certification and stewardship. Garth’s work in the pork industry gave him extensive experience with projects creating renewable energy from manure. Garth was a two-term member of the USDA Agriculture Air Quality Task Force and NC Pork Council Board. He served on the original stakeholder group that formed the NC Green Power Program and is serving his third-term on the Board of Directors. He was appointed by the EPA Administrator in 2007 to the inaugural EPA Farm, Ranch and Rural Communities Advisory Committee, specifically to advise EPA on carbon policy as it relates to agriculture. In 2008, Garth was inducted into the Farm Foundation Members Round Table. More Information on the Global Management Team