Team Glanris

 
 

LEADERSHIP TEAM


Bryan M. Eagle III – CEO, Co-Founder

Bryan lead the development of Glanris' biochar application development, including the patents on rice hull biochar in water filtration and work done in biochar in cement, inoculated soil amendments, and tire productions.  With BET, he helped design their pyrolysis system.

Before Glanris, Bryan ran his consulting/investment company, Memphis Ventures.  His primary focus was helping telecom/IoT companies.  He has also helped start-ups since 1999 through the non-profit incubator he created, Emerge Memphis, and its subsequent venture fund. His experience with IoT systems began when he founded Skywire in 1993 to develop remote monitoring systems.  Skywire designed, developed, and patented Coca-Cola’s first intelligent vending platform, which is still used on millions of machines worldwide.  He sold Skywire to Marconi Online Systems in 1998.  After Skywire, his next start-up was Media4, which he helped sell to EchoStar in 1999.  Bryan holds a BA from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Columbia University.

Andrew Forsdick – CFO (Fractional) 

Andrew combines the discipline and background of accounting with creative strategic thinking and has spent the bulk of his career fulfilling the senior finance role in several companies. For over 10 years he's worked primarily with early stage and start up companies and served many of these as an outsourced CFO.  

Mr. Forsdick spent five years with Coopers & Lybrand and PricewaterhouseCoopers working with manufacturing, government, finance and healthcare clients. Upon leaving there, he worked as an investment advisor to individuals and actively worked with portfolio companies primarily in technology. In addition, he has spent time working as the Manager of External Financial Reporting for a Fortune 500 public company. 

Mr. Forsdick founded Addison Capital Advisors in 2004 to work with private companies providing accounting, financial and management services.  ACA primarily worked with start-up and early stage companies serving as an advisor and outsourced their accounting, finance and other administrative functions. In 2011, he became CEO of a portfolio company, Vivicast Media & Entertainment Group, Inc. where he continues today in addition to working with early stage and start up companies through Sage Business Advisors. 

Mr. Forsdick graduated from Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL, with degrees in Accounting and Philosophy and received his MBA from Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN. He is active with various non-profits including serving on boards in leadership positions. He resides in Memphis, TN with his wife and three children. 

 
 

Advisors + Board

 

Jeff Waldon - Board Advisor

Jeff is currently serving as managing partner for a new company, Restoration Bioproducts LLC, focused on bioenergy and carbon capture and sequestration utilizing waste biomass and pyrolysis to produce bio-oil and biochar. Jeff serves as an advisor regarding land management, carbon, biomass energy, timber, and wildlife for clients throughout North America.  Jeff has extensive experience in international forestry, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and the international carbon markets working on land conservation and climate change.

Jeff recently served as the Chief Technical Officer for Forest Carbon Offsets LLC a company devoted to the development of forest carbon offset projects in Belize.  Projects were established in the Toledo District (Indian Creek), Orange Walk District (Gallon Jug), and in the Pine Ridge.  Prior to starting the company in Belize, Jeff helped conduct research with The World Bank in Belize on carbon management policy, led a project to help reestablish a tropical research station at Las Cuevas in Belize, and assisted the Wildlife Conservation Society in Belize to modernize biodiversity information management.

Jeff was formerly the founder and Executive Director of the Conservation Management Institute, a center within the College of Natural Resources at Virginia Tech and managed research centers at Virginia Tech for 23 years.  The Conservation Management Institute employed over 80 faculty, staff, and students working on projects ranging from field surveys of animals and plants to biomass energy to GIS, remote-sensing, and web-based decision support systems development for agency land management.  

Mike Reardon  - Senior Advisor

Mike was one of the founders of United States Filter Corporation, a Fortune 500 company (NYSE: USF). He has led some of the premier names in the business including U.S. Filter, Culligan, Everpure.  Mike is a CPA and a graduate of California State Polytechnic University and the Kellogg Management Institute at Northwestern University.

Frank A. Brigano, Ph.D., – Technical Advisor

Dr. Brigano has extensive experience in water treatment and has led Research, Engineering, Product Development and Quality efforts for Point-of-Use (POU), Point-of-Entry (POE), Small Municipal Systems and Commercial Products for Olin Corporation, Culligan International, KX Technologies and Marmon Water.  Frank was instrumental identifying and acquiring new technologies for these respective entities.  In addition, for the Marmon Water Group of Companies a Berkshire Hathaway Co. he established and led the Marmon Water Innovation Center located in the International Center for Clean Water of IIT-Madras, Chennai, India.  He has numerous patents and publications.

 Frank has served as Member and Vice-Chairman of the NSF International Drinking Water Treatment Unit Joint Committee and Chairman of the NSF International Certification Council.  Dr. Brigano served on the Water Quality Research Foundation (WQRF) Board of Directors and led a WQRF research effort.  

Dr. Brigano is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement/Membership and Merit Awards from the Water Quality Association (WQA) and was recognized as an “Industry Icon” for 2020 by Water Quality Products Magazine.