Mr. Crossland joined the Thermal Energy International Board of Directors in 2007 and was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in 2009. During this time, he has grown the company’s revenues from $1 million to $25 million. Prior to joining Thermal Energy, he is an accomplished corporate finance and corporate development professional with over 20 years of experience successfully executing a broad range of debt, equity and merger and corporate acquisition transactions.

As Managing Director of Corporate and Investment Banking at a major Canadian bank his focus was assisting renewable and alternative energy and clean tech companies execute their business plans and realize their full potential. This assistance included: capital structuring, public and private debt and equity financing, project development and finance, and merger, acquisition, and strategic advisory work.

His experience in the sustainability and cleantech sector encompasses more than 20 equity, debt and corporate development transactions totaling over $2 billion with a wide range of alternative energy companies, projects and technologies including hydro, wind, biomass, starch-based ethanol, cellulosic ethanol, landfill gas to electricity, municipal solid waste electricity, heat recovery and bio-gas.