GGE has experienced wood pellet management team with successful track record operating wood pellet facilities and undertaking procurement, significantly larger in scope.
John T. Sumner (CEO) - Mr. Sumner is an alumnus of Auburn University and an experienced business leader with over 30 years of executive management, insurance and investment banking experience, a highlight of which being more than $100 million raised for capital and business expansion projects across the Southeast.
George B. ‘Brad’ Warren Jr. (Finance Director) – Mr. Warren is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and successful business developer and leader with over 36 years’ experience including the founding and growth of a $50 million per year company with 750 employees. Mr. Warren is a graduate of the University of Alabama with a degree in Banking and Finance in 1975, CPA 1977.
Masao Mizukami (International Business Development Director) - Mr. Mizukami started his career at Tenryu Lumber Company in Tokyo, Japan during the early 1960’s and was later posted to British Columbia, Canada in the late 1960’s. Having worked for major international and Canadian domestic companies, in 1985 Mr. Mizukami established AQ Timber which has evolved from a log custom cutting and brokerage services provider to a management consulting and sales company today. Currently, AQ Timber is actively undertaking business in Canada, United States, Japan, and China. Mr. Mizukami will support building linkages with Japanese companies interested in purchasing wood pellets.
Sugu Thuraisamy, RPF (Stewardship & Sustainability Officer) - Mr. Thuraisamy is an alumnus of the University of British Columbia’s faculty of Forestry and of the International Masters in Practicing Management program. He has lived in Canada, United States, and Europe over the past 25 years working in western coastal temperate, boreal, and eastern temperate forests. He has completed over 300 forest management projects over his carrier including serving four-years as General Manager for an indigenous community’s 2.4-million-acre forest land holding in Canada. In addition to his duties with GGE currently Mr. Thuraisamy serves as the General Manager of an indigenous not-for-profit foundation and an indigenous for-profit corporation in Canada.
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