William H. Davis (President & CEO)

Mr. Davis has served as the Company’s CEO and President and as a Director since its founding in July, 2004. Prior to founding Ze-gen, LLC, Mr. Davis’ career in business has included launching numerous companies, Database Marketing Corporation in 1986, Holland Mark Advertising in 1997, Jump Jot Authentication Technologies in 2001, and Cambridge Brand Analytics in 2003. Additionally, Mr. Davis was founder and CEO of INSTIGO, a firm launched in 2001 to provide marketing and business strategy advice to senior management and leveraging his 25 years of business and marketing strategy work with category leaders such as WW Grainger, Coca Cola, IBM, Sam's Club, Dreyfus, and Fidelity Investments. Mr. Davis serves on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Boston and the Boston Harbor Islands National Park. He graduated from Connecticut College in 1979.

George McMillan (COO & CFO)

Mr. McMillan joined the company as a Director in November 2004. Mr. McMillan has served in executive capacities for more than 20 years.  His career includes combined experience in supply chain management, media, and technology directed professional services, with demonstrated excellence in both financial and business operations.  

Prior to joining Ze-gen as its COO and CFO, Mr. McMillan was President and CEO of The Palladium Group, a technology and strategy consulting firm he helped found. Prior to joining Palladium, George was Chief Executive Officer of CMGI, where as both Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, he successfully repositioned the financially distressed internet company into a billion dollar leader in supply-chain management. He joined CMGI in July 2001 from BMG Direct, a unit of Bertelsmann A. G., where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer for more than 4 years. 

Before joining BMG Direct, George served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Renaissance Solutions, the technology and management consulting firm. There he helped guide the firm from 15 members to more than 300 professionals, and through three public offerings of its shares. He also guided Renaissance through 13 consecutive quarters of rising revenue and accelerating profit and earnings per share performance.

Mr. McMillan earned his M.B.A. with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Business, his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School and his A.B. in Economics, Phi Beta Kappa, from Stanford University.

Scott Fraser (Senior VP of Engineering)

Mr. Fraser has been active in the energy field for thirty years. His initial experience within a regulated utility included the engineering, permitting, construction, and operation of conventional fossil fuel based electrical generation/cogeneration plants and the evaluation of emerging energy technologies. Mr. Fraser has completed a multitude of energy projects associated with conventional coal, fluidized bed combustion, solid waste utilization, gasification, natural gas fired combined cycle plants, and LNG receiving terminals.

Other areas of expertise include energy infrastructure/economics within India, the Caribbean, and the former Soviet Union and other emerging markets which represent future market areas for Ze-gen. Mr. Fraser is knowledgeable of the growing LNG supply infrastructure within North America and the current challenges facing the US electrical transmission system. Since 2000, Mr. Fraser has provided project advisory services including due diligence assessments for energy asset owners, lenders, potential investors, and energy technology development companies.

A Registered Professional Engineer in Nova Scotia, Mr. Fraser holds a B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering - Queen’s University and an MBA Finance - Dalhousie University.

John Harper (VP of Finance)

John Harper has brought to Ze-gen 20 years experience facilitating the financing of clean and traditional power generation projects. His experiences include private sector developments, strategic and institutional equity investments, public sector project entities, and cooperatives. Mr. Harper has structured financing for projects involving a variety of clean power generation technologies, including wind, photovoltaic, biomass, land-fill gas and cellulosic ethanol projects-- facilitating the financing of both utility-scale and community level clean power projects. He has advised multiple privately-held clean power developers on financing options for their technology demonstration and initial full-scale projects. Recent New England-based clients include the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation, the Cape Light Compact and the Town of Orleans in Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, the Cooperative Development Institute, and several private developers. Mr. Harper has over two decades of project financing experience as a developer, lender, and as an investment advisor on domestic and international power and other infrastructure projects. His previous positions have been with enXco, ABB Structured Finance, Wärtsilä, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation

Jeff Leech (VP of Operations)

Mr. Leech has joined Ze-gen as Vice President of Operations now that our proof–of-concept facility has been constructed. Until then, Mr. Leech served as Operations and Facilities manager for New Bedford Waste Services. He coordinated the day-to-day operations of the 1500 ton per day waste transfer station facility. He serves on numerous committees with the Mass DEP to solve industry issues. Previous positions have included Operations Manager with Rhode Island Resource Recovery, Barnes and Jones, and Omni Source Corporation.

Mr. Leech also has significant background in the operations and maintenance of nuclear power electrical generating capabilities. Throughout 17 years in the U.S. Navy, which included serving as Leading Chief Petty Officer, he was involved in the planning of engineering shutdowns, and scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, including developing and implementing procedures, policies and plans for the dismantlement of S1C Reactor Plant in Windsor Locks, CT.

Jason Hardebeck (VP of Market Development)

Mr. Hardebeck’s professional career spans over 20 years in a number of different technical fields. He has extensive experience in the environmental sector, having led efforts to commercialize zero-emissions disinfection and recycling technologies in the medical waste field. Mr. Hardebeck has served in a variety of operational and marketing roles in several industrial and consumer products and Internet technology companies. In 2000, he founded and served as CEO for WhoGlue, a relationship-management software company for non-profit organizations. Mr. Hardebeck’s entrepreneurial background was recognized in 2005 when he was appointed by Maryland’s Governor to serve as the state’s Entrepreneur in Residence. Mr. Hardebeck’s prior experience includes serving as a nuclear-trained Surface Warfare Officer in the U. S. Navy with responsibilities for the operation of naval nuclear reactors.

Mr. Hardebeck holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy and an MS in Business from the Johns Hopkins University. He serves on the boards of the Baltimore Chapter of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship and the Naval Academy Executive Roundtable and as the Executive Director of the Maryland Business Council.

Megan Feldt (Director of Regulatory & Community Affairs)

Ms. Feldt is a recent graduate of Princeton University with a degree in molecular biology and environmental studies. While at Princeton, she was a thesis grant recipient from the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research. She has extensive laboratory research experience, having worked at Harvard Medical School and at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Prior to joining Ze-gen, she worked as the environmental scientist at the Neponset Watershed Association.

Alex Feinstein (Office Manager)

Mr. Feinstein graduated recently from Connecticut College with a major in social and cultural Anthropology. He enthusiastically joins the Boston team having studied sustainable development, and cultural consumption patterns and solutions. While in Connecticut, he worked with local Native American governments studying the transmission of cancer information within the populations. In addition to his recent position at Investor Group Services in Boston, he has worked for various environmental non-profits in both Connecticut and Massachusetts.