BioResource Management, Inc.
Innovative Solutions
Who We Are
BioResource brings to its projects a team of professionals and other companies educated and experienced in agricultural production, forestry, biomass conversion, and recycling.
Richard M. Schroeder, M.Ag., MBA
Mr. Schroeder is the President and founder of BioResource Management, Inc. and brings over twenty years' experience in planning, developing, and operating bioenergy facilities throughout the US . Mr. Schroeder's experience includes governmental service and field operations of forestland management, sawmill operations, and recycling firms. As the Vice President of Development for a wood recycling company during the 1990s he led its seven-year growth from start-up to a national company operating in over 25 locations and handling nearly two million tons of organics and biomass each year.
Mr. Schroeder received his BS in Forestry and Masters Degree in Agriculture from the University of Florida. He also earned an MBA from Nova Southeastern University. He has served as a county forester, utilization specialist and statewide Wood Energy Coordinator for the Florida Division of Forestry. He has been a member of the National BioEnergy Industries Association, and the Chairman of the Wood Energy Committee in the Florida Forestry Association. He is a member of the Florida Organics Recyclers Association, the Biomass Energy Research Association, the Florida Forestry Association, and the Society of American Foresters.
Matthew H. Langholtz, Ph. D.
Dr. Langholtz received his PhD in forest bioenergy economics from the University of Florida in 2005, and his BS in Forestry from Oklahoma State University in 1990. He served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the University of Florida 'Woody Biomass Utilization from the Wildland-Urban Interface' project from 2005-2007, and continues collaboration with the University of Florida.
He served as a US Peace Corps Volunteer and Coordinator of the Agroforestry Project in Paraguay from 1994-1997, and has authored several peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Langholtz is proficient in ArcGIS, MathCad, Pathfinder Office, GPS, referencing software, and is fluent in Spanish, English, and Guaraní.
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Brian Condon, MS, BS Ag.
Brian began his career working in the field as a forestry contractor in the western US. He served as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Paraguay, and later became a founding member and manager of a local nonprofit agroforestry extension organization there. Brian also served as Crop Certification Director at Florida Organic Growers, and worked as a GIS Analyst at the St. Johns Water Management District. He has participated in projects aimed at identifying biomass supply and demand potential in 21 states. He is fluent in Spanish and skilled in a host of quantitative and GIS applications.
Brian received his MS in Food and Resource Economics from the University of Florida and his BS in Natural Resource and Environmental Science from the University of Illinois. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in Food and Resource Economics at the University of Florida where his research focus is on land use in Florida.
Roger Peterson, BS
Roger Peterson brings over 19 years' experience in organic materials marketing and management. His experience includes successfully marketing over one million tons of wood waste and yard waste annually in the Southeastern US.
He has also managed hurricane and storm debris recycling operations, operated field equipment operations, and has developed new products and uses for organic material as diverse as yard trimmings, sawmill residue, manures, peat and biomass boiler ash. Roger received his BS in Environmental Science from the University of Maine and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL.
W.V. McConnell
W.V. "Mac" McConnell has nearly three decades of experience with bioenergy from woody biomass in the SE US and internationally. Mac's experience includes project plan development, resource analysis, short-rotation woody crops, and wildland resource development. He holds degrees from Pennsylvania State University and Florida State University.
Mac has held line and staff positions in the USDA Forest Service from 1943 to 1972, worked with forestry planning from 1975 to 1979, and worked in forestry consulting from 1979 to the present. He has done project development work with numerous private companies and government agencies.
