Our Management Team

 

The right team for the job.

GreenHeart Tree Energy (GHTE) is a consortium of successful Canadian businessmen with partners in China. Managed by CEO Esmonde Klass the company brings together experts with international experience to successfully execute deliverables. 

The founders are accomplished engineers and successful business leaders with international experience in  business ventures in The Caribbean, China, Europe, Canada, Africa, Central America and South America. 

GreenHeart Tree Energy team with Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) engineers.

GreenHeart Tree Energy team with Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) engineers.

 
 

Esmonde Klass

Chief Executive Officer

 
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A successful Guyanese – Canadian businessman involved in creating partnerships to generate, distribute and deliver green energy in addition to owning and managing other businesses. Esmonde held senior management positions in major insurance companies in Canada before embarking on his own business endeavours. He has forged unique partnerships to build companies within Canada and Internationally. Esmonde also has experience in venture capital, mergers and acquisitions. Esmonde’s main focus is to create  business environments that support respect, empathy, fairness and personal improvement for employees while providing solid returns for share-holders.

 

 

Tom Krupa

VP, sales and marketing

 
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Tom Krupa is foremost a people person and Canadian entrepreneur. Tom can connect people, motivate them, and organize complex business structures and projects. He sees the potential in business opportunities quickly, a skill he developed from his vast experience working across many fields. Tom is also an experienced CEO, highly skilled in various disciplines including business management, project management, engineering and technical design. He is the founder of two successful companies - Apurk Ltd. a trading and sourcing company based out of Toronto Canada and Tomalex Wood’s, a high end furniture manufacturing company that produced furniture for hotels such as Hyatt, Holiday Inn, Mutni in Miami and Donatello in California.

 

 

Steven Chen

VP, Operations

 
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Steven, an electrical engineer is an experienced global operational leader, with significant experience bridging North American and European business activity with China and operational management of large size organizations responsible for hundreds of millions of Euro in revenue. In his 20-year career, Steven's experience includes 7 years in SKF 12 years in Schneider-Electric and 4 years in Alstom Grid. His specialties include sales and marketing, manufacturing, and full P&L management along with power distribution, power transmission, and industrial automation. Steven has also been the leader of renewable energy technology in Schneider-Electric China.

 

 

Chris Langford, P. Eng.

VP, Engineering

 
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Chris is the founder of Hubbert EME Engineering with two offices located in Ontario, Canada (Vaughan and Barrie). EME provides specialized electrical and mechanical engineering design services for residential, commercial, institutional and complex buildings with specific experience and focus on alternative energy projects across Ontario and internationally. Chris began his career at Honda Canada specializing in industrial automation, industrial safety and plant level power distribution. Chris has been involved with over 1000 grid tied solar PV projects including roof top and ground mounted projects in Ontario, in Costa Rica (150MW), in Romania (30MW) and in Ghana (50MW). Chris is considered to be one of the leading technical experts of design and implementation of solar PV grid tied systems in Ontario and Canada.

 

 

Ashton Ward

VP, Finance

 
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Ashton is a seasoned banker and financial consultant with 25+ years experience in the financial industry. He is currently the Principal Broker of a licensed Mortgage Brokerage Company. Principal activity involves advising clients on financing for commercial, residential and construction projects throughout Ontario, Canada and Internationally.
Ashton led the financing of multi-million dollar commercial projects and multi-units construction projects. Ashton is considered a specialist in in-fill residential construction financing and over the past two years has been involved in financing some $40 Million in private lending across all segments.

 

 

Lindsay Davidson

VP, Corporate Services, Government & Public Affairs

 
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Lindsay is a Guyanese-Canadian Public Affairs expert with extensive experience and skills in strategic communications, issues management and media relations. A former journalist, Lindsay began his career as a beat reporter at the Guyana Chronicle before moving to Canada where he wrote for a number of publications including the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Sun, Contrast Weekly Newspaper and Share Newspaper before turning to Corporate Communications. As a Communications Manager, Lindsay provided communications counsel to the President and senior executives at Bell TV. He later moved to the Ontario Government where he provided strategic communications advice  to the Minister and political staffers at the Ministry of Health Promotion and Sport and subsequently became media spokesman and communications advisor at the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change.

 

 

Li Hui (Andy Li)

VP, Procurement

 
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Li Hui (Andy Li) is a successful businessman with a background in finance, international trade and investment and significant experience in procurement management. He is currently the General Manager  of Shanghai Outsmart Industrial Co., Ltd, a material provider of electrical cables and specifically an LED tubes and Micro Grid systems provider to Canadian markets. Andy also serves as General Manager  of Xingfa International Co., Ltd with responsibility for developing the Mexican market for water treatment and filtration systems and water pump and pipe systems. Additionally Andy is a partner in two media companies in Shanghai.     

 
 
 

Advisory Board

 
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LLEWIE ARMSTRONG. P. Eng.

Llewie Armstrong is a retired Mechanical Engineer with over 35 years of experience in the Hydro Electric Generation Industry in Ontario, Canada.  He retired as the Senior Plant Engineer for Ontario Power Generation, the major hydro-electric power supplier in Ontario.

Llewie was involved in designing efficiency upgrades for the hydro turbines at The Sir Adam Beck Generating Stations in Niagara Falls. This included trips to Switzerland and USA to witness and verify efficiency testing of different turbine modules, and to verify that manufacturers were following design specifications.

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WINSTON CAMERON. P. Eng.

Winston Cameron is a retired Civil Engineer with 32 years of experience. He began his career as a Field Engineer with A.G. McKee where he supervised the construction of major infrastructure works in one of the process units for a new refinery at Nanticoke, Ontario, Canada.

Winston returned to Guyana in July 1976 and worked as a Project Engineer for GuyConstruct, the construction arm of the Guyana Bauxite Company in Linden. During that time, he designed and was responsible for the construction of the new Washer Pond Road.
He then came back to Canada in August 1977 and resumed his career with A.G. McKee.

 

 

Our Partnerships

 

We have signed NDAs and have partnerships with the following companies

  • TCI Ecology & New Energy Tech Company

  • Henley Engineering Management (Shanghai) Co., Ltd

  • SCEGC Equipment Installation Group International Engineering Company

  • Shanghai Jinling Intelligent Electric Meter Co., Ltd.

  • LS Tech Homes

  • Royal Europa Sp.zo.o

  • Franken Solar

GHTE has signed Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA(s)) and Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU(s)) with all of our partners.

On many of our projects we are engaged in Joint Venture Agreements (JV(s)) with our partners. In some projects they act as suppliers and provide direct savings to GHTE.

These signed NDA(s), MOU(s) and JV(s) ,with established international partners , are an indication of the financial strength and project completion capacity that GHTE brings to the table on any project where our partners are involved. GHTE benefits by having a world-wide basket of experience to draw upon.

 

Partner Gallery 

 

We have traveled to meet with our partners and see their operations and they in turn have visited Guyana to gather information about investment opportunities and also meet with the relevant decision makers to learn about policies and development plans. The photos capture these moments.