Team Proficiencies

The award-winning RES team brings decades of practical experience to bear on opportunities and challenges facing clients. This entrepreneurial background includes manufacturing, agricultural production, service sector industries, business start-ups, value-added ventures, and business management coaching. The RES team includes expertise in Financial Management and records, Business Planning, Procurement, Workforce Training, Marketing, Engineering, Feasibility Assessment, and inter-agency collaborations.  RES has strong expertise in small and medium sized business and agri-business development in the U.S. and internationally for private-sector, municipal, non-profit and governmental clients.  

Renewable Energy –

Renewable energy offers exciting potential to achieve ecological and production goals. On a large scale, the energy economy creates jobs and businesses. At the community level it can connect sustainable resource management with livelihood and service objectives. At the farm level, hydro, solar, wind and biomass can be the way to reach production or performance goals.  The RES team includes professionals with hands-on experience in solar, hydro, biomass, wind, bio-digestion, non-electric technologies,and construction/installation expertise.

Economic and Resource Assessments –

Taking a project from ideas to implementation demands interdisciplinary strengths. RES employs resource and financial assessments by our environmental and business economists, market research if applicable, and best-fit technology identification. Our engineers include electrical, mechanical and structural experts, who work with our project planners to achieve the desired product or installation.  Pre-feasibility evaluations often provide go/no go decision materials which save clients both time and money.  Micro-finance and investment materials may round out an assessment package for a client.

Project Planning, Implementation, Management -

Project opportunities have ranged from utility-scale renewable energy to value-added agricultural collaborations to community-based natural resource management. No project is too big or too small, with team member designing efficient, effective and logical approaches to accessing opportunities and mitigating challenges.   

      

Team

 Ben Henson

An ecologist by training, RES founder, Ben Henson, has over two decades of business development experience, focusing on environmentally sound natural resource based enterprises, community based natural resource management, Agriculture, irrigation, and renewable energy. His strong analytical skill set and business background combine with a commitment to holistic project development to benefit individuals and communities. As well as successful businesses and projects across the U.S., his work has taken him to Europe, the Pacific Rim, sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Central Asia.

  Matt King

Matt is a got his degree in Biology from prestigious Reed College.  He specializes in irrigation technology, renewable energy, agricultural system, and biomass processing.  His career  has included extensive work in Eastern and Southern Africa, North, South and Central America, and Europe.  Matt is also the founder of Matt King Energy, a renewable energy consulting firm.

 

 Richard Bunderson

Richard is a long term malawi resident, having spent over 20 years in Lilongwe.  Richard Directs the Viphya Project, managing over 700 emplyees who aare involved in forest extraction activities, and who plant several million trees annually.  Additionally in his role as Ececutive Director of Atlas Energy, Richard manages the installation of a 40 megawatt solar energy project, projected to expand to 300MW.

Tim Machoria

Tim is a Mechanical Engineer by training, and an irrigation specialist by vocation.  Tim splits his time between Kenya and Rwanda.  He works on the design and installation of pumps, piping systems, and construction of irrigation project.