Our mission is to develop, manufacture, and license for use sustainable products and to design, build and operate production facilities incorporating our licensed patented processes

Our patented technologies separate MSW streams into biogenic and non-biogenic fractions and create new high-value renewable fuels and construction byproducts, while reclaiming 100% of the metals and glass.  We are Agile Engineering through this Market opportunity, converting the Wett Biogenic fraction of MSW into Biogas and Biosolids, using a Plug flow Anaerobic Digestion process design by Eisenmann.  The fractionated non-biogenic Mixed Waste Plastic, recognized as 17% of the discard waste stream, is converted into an engineered aggregate for use in Green Ready Mix Concrete.  Balkrete Aggregates replace scoria, expanded shale, perlite and vermiculite in the lightweight concrete aggregate category, produced locally from sustainable MSW discards.   The finished weight of structural Ready Mix Concrete drops from 150 pounds per cubic foot to less than 100 pounds per cubic foot, while improving thermal and acoustic performance by 300%. In addition we reclaim 100% of the high value metals and glass.

We have assembled a team of business development professionals, engineers and scientists, on a performance basis, to bring this nascent currently scaled kit to market.  Our Business Model continues to trend into multi-channel, multi-revenue streams.  Our Direct Customer Development practice is to provide the Resource Recovery benefits every Municipality and Private entity in control of this sustainable resource (MSW) requires, who need to  solve a piece of the MSW problem.  With Anaerobic Digestion getting traction in the EPC-compliant market opportunities for the Wet Fraction (putrescibles, and compostables), a syngas process to produce CHP and/or CNG for transportation fuels for Public Works fleets, the Economic Benefits of participating in LEEP Solid Waste Reduction Methods for the biomass and non-biogenic waste plastic fractions are clear.

Our Team

The Company has brought together a team of product and process development, manufacturing, and sales professionals committed to making the Company’s vision a reality.  The Company is led by veteran entrepreneurs, creative go-getters well versed in organizing, managing, and controlling the direction of the enterprise.

Kevin Furnary-  CEO

Kevin Furnary has spent his career as a business developer and entrepreneur. Since 1978, Kevin has started, developed and sold businesses in sectors including industrial service, clothing, plastics applications, and finance. He has been successful at revitalizing distressed business opportunities with new ideas, direction and capital. Mr. Furnary’s experience has earned him a reputation as an innovator in product design and marketing. His broad network of industry associates has been invaluable to the company’s in creating LEEP's business model. Kevin currently consult's with a successful energy brokerage group and continues pursuing the commercialization efforts of patented technologies with industrial and recreational applications.

Kevin has a bachelor’s degree from Towson University.

Tom Balkum- Senior Vice President, COO

Mr. Tom Balkum has established a 30-year career working with startup and high growth enterprises as a manufacturing and operations management specialist with direct profit and loss responsibility.  Mr. Balkum has extensive experience in product and process development and re-engineering, modular demand-flow manufacturing and distribution systems, production planning and inventory control, and quality assurance and contract administration.  Combining an interdependent proactive management style with an entrepreneurial twist has enabled Tom to accelerate growth in companies while increasing dollars to the bottom line.

Operating in the startup and high growth arenas has exposed Mr. Balkum to a broad range of technologies, products, and markets.  Managing small to mid-size companies, Tom has led fulfillment teams to provide products and services for consumer, industrial and government markets.  Blessed with a creative problem-solving approach to business, Tom has succeeded where others have failed while expanding his personal toolbox of technologies, processes, and industry contacts.  Tom founded Balkrete Custom Aggregates™, creating lightweight high-strength concrete aggregates from recycled plastics, and holds US Patent 6,488,766 Aggregate Using Recycled Plastics.

Stephen Mathews- Senior Vice President, Finance/Investor Relations 

Steve Mathews has over 30 years of finance, capital markets, investment banking, real estate sales, and real estate development experience. He has executed in excess of $12B of transactional business in these sectors. Steve is currently active in investment capital management as a principal of T.D. Hunts Capital, Inc. which has interests in mining and media. Since 1989, Steve has also been the sole proprietor of Ryland Real Estate Advisors, Inc., (RREA) a consultant company that has provided services for Marcus, Stowell & Beye, Meridian Bancorp, CoreStates Capital Markets, and Bayview Financial Group.

Steve’s investment background included originating credit tenant loan production as President of MSB Realty Group, a division of Marcus, Stowell & Beye; later he worked in fixed income institutional fixed income sales at Marcus, Stowell & Beye Government Securities, until its purchase by Meridian Bancorp. At Meridian Steve was a Senior Vice President in the capital markets group and concentrated on mbs, cmbs, corporate and 144A debt issuance and sales until Meridian was purchased by CoreStates Capital Markets, where Steve sold secondary private placements, credit tenant lease structures, as well as numerous project finance debt issues.

Steve has a BA in Economics from Virginia Tech.

Advisory Board

Jim McDonnell- Executive Advisor

Mr. James C. McDonnell- An executive advisor, a Cornell University graduate in Engineering with an MBA from Oklahoma State University, served as PEPCO ENERGY SERVICES, INC., Senior Vice President and CFO 1999 to 2008. Jim was a key player in the development and growth of this competitive energy company, involved in retail energy marketing, energy efficiency construction, and O&M projects. As senior financial executive, Jim was responsible for providing financial leadership while revenues increased 15 fold and cumulative net income rose to more than $130 million.

Jim is a team builder that thinks strategically and implements effectively. Strong commercial business development and negotiating skills have been honed by Jim while working in both Fortune 500 and start-up companies in the energy industry and at a leading management consulting firm. He has a leadership approach that places emphasis on interpersonal relationships and team building and has been consistently recognized for strong commercial skills and business acumen.

Peter Blacklin-  Co Founder/Advisor-  Technical  (currently working full time for a scientific instruments manufacturer)

In 14 years with Tate, Mr. Blacklin was awarded four US Patents and made significant contributions to improving the product line while reducing the manufacturing costs.  As the Director of Engineering, Mr. Blacklin and his team integrated competitive products into the Tate line while significantly reducing the manufacturing costs and improving the quality.  This product and process reengineering allowed Tate to become the world’s largest manufacturer of access flooring systems.  During this time Mr. Blacklin participated in the Executive MBA program at Loyola College in Baltimore, earning his MBA in 1984.

CEMCOM Research Associates, a materials development organization, acquired the services of Mr. Blacklin in 1994 and he headed the completion of a large production run of blast attenuation blocks for the US Navy to house explosives, on time and under budget.  The project required Mr. Blacklin to step in and lead a team at the pre-casting facility in Ohio for 10 weeks, developing rapid tooling required for the project, facilitated by the installation of 3D CAD engineering coupled to CNC machining. 

Dr. Jerry Moore, PhD., J.D.

Former R&D Director, EPA, and Professor Emeritus, Fairmont State, Fairmont, WVA, PhD., J.D., Former R&D Director, EPA, and Professor Emeritus, Fairmont State, Fairmont, WVA Dr. Moore is an environmental consultant to some 20 companies. Dr. Moore was a Charter Member of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) where he served from the EPA's founding until 1998.  Dr. Moore chaired the Air Research Committee in the Office of Research and Development for the Office of Health and Environmental Assessment and was Co-Chair of the Water Research Committee.  Dr. Moore also served on the Alternate Fuel Research Committee.  Dr. Moore has his Ph. D. from HEED University and his Juris Doctor degree from LaSalle University.

Dr. Jack Durham, PhD., Contributing author to the ACID RAIN RULE and THE ACID RAIN 14 MANUALS

Dr. Durham was with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 27 years, entering as a senior research chemist and quickly becoming a science program manager.  Dr. Durham is a physical chemist with training and experience in surface chemistry, catalysis, photochemistry, and dispersed particles. He earned his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of New Brunswick, Canada.  Dr. Durham was the science advisor to the EPA Administrator on the air pollution risks of 789 oil wells set afire by Iraq in Kuwait.  After leaving EPA, he has consulted for companies in alternative energy development, and 3rd-party product and management registrations.

Bill Ellison, PE, Ellison Consultants, (deceased) Contributing editor POWER MAGAZINE

A professional engineer who graduated from Stevens Tech, Mr Ellison has for over 40 years focused on reducing pollutant emissions from Stack Flue Gas, and for the last 20 years served as contributing editor for Power Magazine and the McIlvaine Newsletter in the power generation stack flue gas category. Mr. Ellison assists LEEP in applying its breakthrough scrubbing technology to stack flue gas cleaning.   Bill has vetted this technology, written many of the current abstracts.