Harry Crouse
Harry L. Crouse, P.G., 59, Chairman. Mr. Crouse is a Registered Professional Geologist and has more than 30 years experience in the consulting and construction industries. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Franklin & Marshall College and a master’s degree from The Pennsylvania State University. Mr. Crouse formed his first business, Earth Sciences Consultants, Inc., in 1979 and grew the business through the addition of an environmental laboratory and an environmental remediation firm. These companies grew to 180 employees and $20 million in revenues by 1989 at which time Mr. Crouse sold the three companies to American Waste Services simultaneously with an IPO of AWS stock. At the expiration of his non-compete in 1994, Mr. Crouse formed Crouse & Company which provided engineering and consulting to the waste management and environmental industries. Over the past four years, Mr. Crouse has slowly diminished the size of Crouse & Company and has finally closed it down to devote his full time attention to Keystone.

Greg Shaffer
Gregory L. Shaffer, P.E., 45, President. Mr. Shaffer is a Registered Professional Engineer and has over 18 years of experience in consulting, construction and solid waste landfill management. He holds two bachelor’s degrees and a master’s degree from The Pennsylvania State University. Mr. Shaffer began his career in 1985 as a consultant with Earth Sciences Consultants, Inc. He joined the Arnoni Group as a Vice President in 1991 where he managed the operations, engineering and construction (approximately $20 million over 4 years) for the M.C. Arnoni, Company, a large municipal waste landfill. Following the sale of Arnoni to Waste Management, Inc., Mr. Shaffer joined Crouse & Company in 1996 and until recently managed all of Crouse & Company’s consulting practice. Mr. Shaffer’s management of an active landfill and his consulting experiences in the solid waste industry provide a unique combination of understanding the technical aspects of solid waste management and economics of the industry. Mr. Shaffer has developed key relationships with many senior managers and executives of several solid waste management companies.

Sam Crouse
Samuel T. Crouse, 53, Vice President, Construction. Mr. Crouse has more than 20 years of experience in the consulting and construction industry. He received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He joined CRS (Earth Sciences’ remediation group) in 1984 and began his career in the environmental remediation business. He joined Crouse & Company in 1994. He has conducted and managed construction and remediation projects ranging from underground tank removals to multi-million dollar environmental cleanup and site restoration projects. He has built landfill gas collection systems, constructed municipal waste landfills, and has been involved with residential and multi-million dollar commercial building construction. Mr. Crouse manages pipeline and plant construction for Keystone’s projects.

Jake Crouse
A. Jacob Crouse, 35, Vice President of Operations. Mr. Crouse has more than 13 years of experience in consulting, construction management and administration. He received a bachelor’s degree from Allegheny College. Mr. Crouse began his career at Crouse & Company in the environmental remediation and construction division. In addition to participating in and managing remediation projects, he was active in the consulting practice. Mr. Crouse plays a key role in equipment procurement, equipment installation, and plant commissioning. He is also responsible for plant operations.

Joe Santangelo
Joseph Santangelo, P.G., 41, Landfill Gas Production Manager. Mr. Santangelo is a Registered Professional Geologist and has more than 15 years of experience in consulting, construction, and solid waste landfill management. He received a bachelor’s degree from The Pennsylvania State University. Mr. Santangelo began his career at Chambers Development Company in 1989 where he installed landfill gas extraction systems for several Pennsylvania landfills. In 1994, he was employed by Handex Environmental Services, Inc. where he managed remedial and construction projects and several landfill gas recovery projects for the former Browning Ferris Industries Gas Systems Group.  He is responsible for managing landfill gas collection fields to optimize gas quality and quantity and for maintaining environmental compliance. 

Harry Finley
Harry Finley, 57, Process Plant Design. Mr. Finley has over 25 years of treatment process design and project management experience on domestic and international energy projects. He has a bachelor of sciences degree in mechanical engineering from the Texas A&M University and is a Project Management Professional as certified by the Project Management Institute. A significant part of Mr. Finley’s past activities have been focused on offering modern project control technologies and best in class design and project optimization techniques to the landfill gas industry. Projects successfully completed have included pressure swing adsorption, Selexol, refrigerated methanol, membrane and limited clean-up (medium BTU) projects in New York, Maryland, Ohio, Michigan, California, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Indiana, and Texas. Mr. Finley’s recent focus has been applying the process and project control techniques that have been successful on a wide range of projects around the United States and around the world to the challenges of landfill methane recovery projects. Mr. Finley is responsible for process and plant design and leads the team during plant commissioning. He is also expert in troubleshooting plant operational issues.