William Strauss brings more than thirty-five years of strategic planning, project management, data analysis, and modeling experience into the company’s stock of knowledge capital. He also compliments his business background with real-world hands-on technical skills. Bill’s professional history includes executive positions as director, president, and senior vice president, as well as positions as a senior analyst, field coordinator, and operations manager. He has an MBA (specializing in Finance) and a PhD (Natural Resources and Earth Systems Science, and Economics).
Bill brings some unique skills and wisdom to Maine Energy Systems that are specific to the understanding of combustion and energy production. His business and economics knowledge is complimented by more than 15 years of hands-on experience in the waste-to-energy sector. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he brought a number of new facilities on line as a “start-up” manager (one of which was in Auburn, Maine and is still operating today). As a consultant he negotiated power sales agreements with utilities and municipal solid waste delivery contracts with cities, authorities, and haulers. Bill also innovated techniques for improved combustion, cleaner emissions, and more efficient operations that resulted in higher revenues, lower costs, and happier neighbors.
Bill is the President and founder of FutureMetrics, LLC, a financial and economic forecasting consultancy. Bill is a member of the New England Complex Systems Institute, a member of the Eastern Economics Association, a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and serves as Executive Consultant for Aviation Management Systems, Inc. Bill is the President of Lightval Mines, Limited, a Canadian junior mining company. He is also, of course, a Director in Maine Energy Systems. Bill also serves on the Sunday River ski area Advisory Committee.
Bill takes some time in the fall and spring to teach a few business and economics classes at a small college near his home in western Maine where his is a professor. Bill loves to ski and he has logged hundreds of thousands of vertical feet of heli-skiing.