Solaya Organics Team

Scott M. Graves, President & Founder
  • Twenty years executive management experience in manufacturing and Non-Profit. 
  • Founder of SMGraves Associates, ten years providing 30+ business development and strategic plans to credit.
  • Product development and sourcing of goods internationally.
  • Developed O2E, a comprehensive approach to developing independently owned/operated organic waste facilities.
  • Developing Organics products and design of renewable technology.
  • Active Rotarian; Board Member, GGBI; President Board, GVNA HealthCare.
Jonathan Sloane CEO
  • Graduate Tufts University (BA Economics, 1980), the OPM Program at Harvard Business School (OPM 19/1993).
  • 33 years experience in the financial services arena with 30 years in commercial banking (Co-CEO, Century Bank, MA).  
  • Founder, Sloane Partners, 2011.
  • Extensive Financial and Risk Management Experience. 
  • Active or former board member: YMCAs of Greater Boston, Boy Scouts of America, Catholic Charities of Boston.
John D. Forcier, P.E. Lead Engineer
  • Forty-two years of experience planning, design, permitting, construction of municipal and private projects. 
  • Renewable energy, biogas, anaerobic digester, wastewater and composting projects throughout the eastern U.S.A. 
  • Nineteen years project manager, estimator, CPM scheduler and construction manager. 
  • Twenty-three years CEO, Forcier Aldrich & Assoc. 
  • Related biogas/AD experience farm-based, commercial, industrial, municipal and wastewater treatment facility systems utilizing mixed substrates.
  • Electrical outputs from 190 kWe to 1 MWe and heat energy to 3.5M BTU/h.
Sumul Shah, Chief Operating Officer
  • Graduate Brown University (BS, Civil Engineering), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, Construction Management).
  • CEO, Solaya Energy (2007).
  • President, Lumus Construction (1998).
  • Designed, Developed, Financed and Operating Wind Farms in Scituate, MA and Fairhaven, MA (4.5MW).
  • Developing a 12 MW wind energy facility in Berlin, NH which is currently under construction with a commercial operations date in 2015.
  • Managing a 4MW wind facility in Gloucester, MA.
  • Worked on over 450 projects totaling over $350 million in restoration, military, healthcare construction, facilities management, and wind turbine and solar installations.
  • “Small Business Person of the Year (Massachusetts & 1st Runner Up Nationally)” by the US Small Business Administration (2009)