Bi-Fuel CNG, Inc.About Us
Overview
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Founders
The founders are ideally suited for promulgation of this business.
Bruce Collet has over 35 years of executive, management, entrepreneurial and consulting experience in a variety of industries (manufacturing, construction, oil & gas, utilities, transportation, financial services, and software would all have application to Bi-Fuel). He has run a financial entity buying over $1mil/day of receivables and was an owner in a small specialty manufacturer he took through development of a complex new product and orchestrated an increase in sales from $2 to 10 million in 18 months. He was involved in the preliminary design stages of Alaskan gas pipeline that was planned in the late 70’s but never built. He has done strategy and marketing consulting engagements with gas utilities, oil companies and auto manufacturers. He has done strategy, business process redesign and marketing consulting with dozens of Fortune 500 companies and is particularly skilled at adapting best practices in one industry or arena to another application.
Craig Bringhurst began developing these ideas after his own purchase of an NGV. Craig has a strong engineering background, experience in high pressure vessels and compressors, a life-long dedication to sourcing a wide variety of projects from Asia. He has twenty-five years of intense product development, manufacturing and process engineering in a variety of industries including 5 years in the oil refinery industry. Craig has more than 16 years of management experience in engineering and manufacturing; 18 years in developing automation, process controls, and instrumentation systems for retail products and eight years in retail product design and development. He is an expert in cost containment/reduction, “Lean Manufacturing” practices and automation through sourcing in Asia and Latin America. He has spent the last 12 years transitioning products in, out, and between these vastly different cultures to optimize the profits and quality of various consumer and industrial product lines. He has audited, inspected, and worked with over 300 facilities in Asia.
Trent Timothy has 11 years of varied sales experience. He has been involved in both residential and commercial real estate sales as a licensed REALTOR. Trent spent 2 years as general manager of property management firm, responsible for all aspects of operations. He has been a sales manager, consultant and business owner. Trent spent several months selling autos to get a basic understanding of the business and how to apply his skills to this venture.
We are putting together a coalition of many of the certified technicians in Utah and anticipate their full support as all of our conversion certifications will be adding to the options available in the marketplace.
The functions/roles/expertise that will be needed are mostly available locally (as employees or consultants) and will include: high pressure engineer, compressor engineer, manufacturing engineer, automotive engineer, automotive electrical, automotive fuel systems, CNG certified technicians, auto mechanic, production supervision, cylinder specialist, regulators and relief devices, natural gas industry, certification trainer, auto financing, used car market, buyer, transportation, lobbyist, grant writer, regulatory and legal.
A small cadre of advisors and early supporters has been assembled, but this is expected to be dwarfed by the distribution of this document to a wide audience of parties with potential interest. We are aggressively seeking strategic partnering relationships.