Howard Goodfellow, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Chair
Tenova Goodfellow Inc.
Dr. Goodfellow is President of Tenova Goodfellow Inc. and leader of the University of Toronto/Tenova Goodfellow Research group. With Tenova Goodfellow Inc. his corporate responsibilities include the development and commercialization of the award-winning Goodfellow EFSOP® technology for the optimization of electric arc furnaces. His role as a team leader in the UofT partnership is focused on building linkages between academia and industry to establish business opportunities in the area of innovative sensors for combustion intensive industries.
Dr. Goodfellow has been instrumental in technological and environmental innovation since the late 1970s. His first role was as an associate with Hatch Associates Ltd. where he managed diverse teams and tasks for 16 years. Dr. Goodfellow's international experience with HAL led to the creation of Goodfellow Consultants in 1986, where he established his position as an industry leader. Dr. Goodfellow’s success as an innovator and team leader has garnered him numerous professional accolades; most recently he was the 2009 recipient of the University’s of Toronto’s Engineering Alumni Association’s Hall of Distinction award and he has been named a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He received the 2007 Engineering Medal in the Entrepreneurship Category from the Ontario Professional Engineers, the 2T5 Meritorious Service Medal of the Engineering Alumni Association of the University of Toronto for his outstanding contributions as an engineer, teacher, researcher, author and administrator in the field of ventilation and occupational health at the University of Toronto, and the R&D 100 AWARD (2000) – EFSOP® recognized as a technologically significant new product/process. These, and other awards, have been in recognition of his work as an industry leader and an educator at the University of Toronto.
Board of Advisors; Science and Technology
Dominique P. Bureau, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Animal and Poultry Science
University of Guelph
Dr. Dominique P. Bureau obtained a Bachelor's degree in Bio-Agronomy in 1991 and a Master's degree in Animal Science in 1992 from Laval University (Québec City, Québec, Canada). He moved to Ontario in 1992 to study with Dr. Young Cho and obtained a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario) in 1997. He worked as a research associate at the University of Guelph for several years. He joined the faculty of the Dept. of Animal and Poultry Science in 2001 and took over the supervision of the Fish Nutrition Research Laboratory.
Dr. Bureau leads a dynamic research program focusing on nutrient (amino acids, fatty acids, glucose, phosphorus) metabolism in fish, feed formulation, feedstuff evaluation, management of environmental impacts of fish culture operations, and the development of mathematical models of growth and nutrient utilization. He supervises the UG/OMNR Fish Nutrition Research Laboratory and its research team composed of about 15 members. He collaborates with researchers and feed manufacturers around the world, from Asia through Europe to South America. He also teaches various courses on animal nutrition and agriculture at the University of Guelph, and is also the coordinator for the University of Guelph’s Paris Semester.
Levente L. Diosady, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry;
Food Engineering
University of Toronto
Levente L. Diosady received an Honours Bachelors degree (1966) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto. He is a registered Professional Engineer, and a designated Consulting Engineer in the Province of Ontario. After graduation he returned to the University of Toronto, where he obtained his M.A.Sc. (1968) and Ph.D. (1971) degrees in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry.
Since 1979, Dr. Diosady has been the professor of Food Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at U of T. His research interests include oilseed processing, extrusion, advanced separation processes, and micronutrient fortification of food. He is the author of over 120 publications in refereed journals, including 15 patents.
His research was acknowledged by a Canada Award for Business Excellence in the “Inventions” category in 1987, was called one of the Top Ten Products/Processes by the Institute of Food Technologists in 1990, he received the Professional Engineers of Ontario Engineering Medal for R&D in 2003, and he received the Eva Award of the Canadian Institute of Food Science and technology in 2007. He was inducted into the U of T Engineering Alumni Hall of Distinction in 2004. Both his sons are engineers.
Rex Newkirk, Ph.D.
Director of Biofuels and Feed
Canadian International Grains Institute
Dr. Rex Newkirk is the Director of Biofuels and Feed with the Canadian International Grains Institute (CIGI), a non-profit organization that has been providing world-class training and technical support for users of Canadian field crops. Since its inception in 1972 over 31,000 people from 114 countries have received CIGI training.
Dr. Newkirk received his Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan for extensive work with the canola processing industry where he helped identify the conditions for processing seed into the highest quality meal possible for livestock. During his studies he worked closely with two other researchers to develop new technologies to produce cost-effective, high-quality protein concentrates from canola. Dr. Newkirk holds several patents and is the co-founder of MCN Bioproducts Inc., a company that has commercialized this unique technology. In addition, CanPro Ingredients Ltd. licensed the technology and built the first commercial canola protein concentrate plant.
In 2003 Dr. Newkirk joined CIGI where he provides technical support and training in the biofuel and feed sector. He has conducted seminars and feeding trials in a large number of countries where he has demonstrated the properties of Canadian feed ingredients in fish, swine, poultry and dairy rations. He also produced a new flax feed industry guide and a revised canola feed industry guide and is in the process of producing a soybean guide. Dr. Newkirk developed a unique portable biodiesel plant and biodiesel training program at CIGI that has been used to train over 1800 people through 68 courses held across Canada and the US on the production and utilization of biodiesel from a host of feed stocks. He has successfully produced biodiesel from a wide range of feedstocks including canola, soybean, sunflower, flax, hemp, camelina, stink weed, fine weed seed screenings, tallow, used cooking grease, coffee grounds, corn, peanut, safflower, mustard and bin heated canola.
Murray Thomson, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto
Prof. Murray Thomson is currently a Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, and is also cross-appointed with the Dept. of Chemical Engineering. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1994. His research is in the area of combustion with a focus on experimental and modeling studies of chemical kinetics, pollutant formation, biofuel flames, and optical sensors. As an educator, Prof. Thomson has supervised the thesis research of 41 graduate students and published 46 journal publications. He is a project Leader for the AUTO21 National Centre of Excellence. He is a theme leader, and on the Network Management Committee of the “Agricultural Biorefinery Innovation Network (ABIN)”. He is on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Section of the Combustion Institute.
Jorge Castillo, M.Sc.
President
Argentum Consulting
Jorge holds a M. Sc. degree from the University of Missouri. He is a certified Six-Sigma Black Belt, trained in the use of analytical tools and methods to implement technology. His vast experience includes conducting experiments to optimize processes, measuring systems and other tools to mitigate risk and variability. He has in-depth knowledge of feed ingredients processes and manufacturing of feed, animal nutrition and feed formulation, waste water management and recycling of materials to preserve the environment.
Jorge’s career includes –among others- beef, dairy, poultry and swine production. He has worked with the vitamins and pigments industry becoming an expert in premix formulations, servicing the customers in technical matters such as least cost formulation and quality control of their feed mills.
As Manager of formulation and ingredients database maintenance in the Corporate Research & Nutrition unit of Shur-Gain Maple Leaf Foods, he was responsible for designing system to reduce variability in feed formulation, keeping a close relationship with the chemists at the feed laboratories. There, he developed products for Rothsay (sister company) valorizing traditional rendered products. [Fish Meal Analogue and Amino-Plus] and successfully implementing projects to reduce cost, defects eliminating sources of variation in six Rothsay rendering plants; a minimum of two projects was completed every year with certified savings by the accounting department of at least $200,000 per project per year, managing disciplines of logistics, mechanics of rendering, use of surveys to assess customer satisfaction, discovering sources of variation in the Biodiesel process and wastewater and foul air controls.
Recently, he has effectively completed projects such as Process design and quality deployment function for a multinational feed company, interaction between nutrition R&D, sales, purchasing, finance, cost allocation of formulation ingredients, quality and inventory controls; Production of a proprietary ingredient for a new feeding application in marine fish feeding; Modification of a basic feed ingredient to meet a specific characteristic to the quality of pigmented fish filets.
David T. Balke, Ph.D.
Dr. Balke has more than 18 years of investigation and innovation experience in the field of environmentally-conscience industrial processes. His work includes simulation and modeling of the sunlight photochemical destruction of organochlorines in pulp and paper mill effluents, and the development of an organic solvent-free process for the production of protein isolates from mustard seeds. His unique combination of analytical skills and technical knowledge, gained through industrial and academic R&D, is strongly focused on innovation, process control, modeling, problem-solving, quality control, safety and profitability.
For the past three years, Dr. Balke has been active in the food industry. His work focused primarily on the development of new products and their implementation on a commercial scale for many of the country’s largest principals such as Cargill, Maple Leaf, Sofina Foods, Concord Meats and Highliner Foods. He has built great working relationships with suppliers, end-users and colleagues through technical competence as well as effective communication, team and leadership skills, all tempered with an entrepreneurial flair
Dr. Balke is active in several professional organizations, such as the American Oil Chemist Society for which he has presented several times and also helped chair and organize industry conferences in the past. Dr. Balke is a University of Toronto triple grad, having obtained his B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science, M.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering – Pulp & Paper, and Ph.D. in Food Engineering. Complementing his doctorate degree, Dr. Balke has also received formal Chef’s Training from George Brown College.
Boad of Advisors; Management and Marketing
Dr. Paul Missios, Ph.D.
Chair Economics Department
Ryerson University
Dr. Paul Missios holds a Ph.D. in Economics from York University, an M.A. in Economics from York University, and a B.Comm in Commerce and Finance from the University of Toronto. He is presently Chair of the Department of Economics and Associate Professor at Ryerson University. He previously taught at York University and has acted as a consultant for the City of Toronto and the Ontario Centres of Excellence - Earth and Environmental Technologies. His research is focussed on environmental economics (biodiversity, pollution, waste), environmental management and policy, natural resource economics, applied game theory, and international trade and the environment. He has published papers in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Environmental and Resource Economics, Canadian Public Policy, Economics Letters, Ecological Economics and Marine Resource Economics.
Mr. Steve Paul, MBA
Mr. Paul is Managing Director and founder of Lancashire Capital Corporation - a financial advisory services company based in Toronto, Ontario. He has over 12 years of corporate and commercial banking experience working with large corporate and mid-market companies across a wide range of industries including Metals & Mining, Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Power Generation.
Mr. Paul has an MBA from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and a BA (Economics) from the University of Western Ontario.
Chair
Tenova Goodfellow Inc.
Dr. Goodfellow is President of Tenova Goodfellow Inc. and leader of the University of Toronto/Tenova Goodfellow Research group. With Tenova Goodfellow Inc. his corporate responsibilities include the development and commercialization of the award-winning Goodfellow EFSOP® technology for the optimization of electric arc furnaces. His role as a team leader in the UofT partnership is focused on building linkages between academia and industry to establish business opportunities in the area of innovative sensors for combustion intensive industries.
Dr. Goodfellow has been instrumental in technological and environmental innovation since the late 1970s. His first role was as an associate with Hatch Associates Ltd. where he managed diverse teams and tasks for 16 years. Dr. Goodfellow's international experience with HAL led to the creation of Goodfellow Consultants in 1986, where he established his position as an industry leader. Dr. Goodfellow’s success as an innovator and team leader has garnered him numerous professional accolades; most recently he was the 2009 recipient of the University’s of Toronto’s Engineering Alumni Association’s Hall of Distinction award and he has been named a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He received the 2007 Engineering Medal in the Entrepreneurship Category from the Ontario Professional Engineers, the 2T5 Meritorious Service Medal of the Engineering Alumni Association of the University of Toronto for his outstanding contributions as an engineer, teacher, researcher, author and administrator in the field of ventilation and occupational health at the University of Toronto, and the R&D 100 AWARD (2000) – EFSOP® recognized as a technologically significant new product/process. These, and other awards, have been in recognition of his work as an industry leader and an educator at the University of Toronto.
Board of Advisors
Board of Advisors; Science and Technology
Dominique P. Bureau, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Animal and Poultry Science
University of Guelph
Dr. Dominique P. Bureau obtained a Bachelor's degree in Bio-Agronomy in 1991 and a Master's degree in Animal Science in 1992 from Laval University (Québec City, Québec, Canada). He moved to Ontario in 1992 to study with Dr. Young Cho and obtained a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario) in 1997. He worked as a research associate at the University of Guelph for several years. He joined the faculty of the Dept. of Animal and Poultry Science in 2001 and took over the supervision of the Fish Nutrition Research Laboratory.
Dr. Bureau leads a dynamic research program focusing on nutrient (amino acids, fatty acids, glucose, phosphorus) metabolism in fish, feed formulation, feedstuff evaluation, management of environmental impacts of fish culture operations, and the development of mathematical models of growth and nutrient utilization. He supervises the UG/OMNR Fish Nutrition Research Laboratory and its research team composed of about 15 members. He collaborates with researchers and feed manufacturers around the world, from Asia through Europe to South America. He also teaches various courses on animal nutrition and agriculture at the University of Guelph, and is also the coordinator for the University of Guelph’s Paris Semester.
Levente L. Diosady, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry;
Food Engineering
University of Toronto
Levente L. Diosady received an Honours Bachelors degree (1966) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto. He is a registered Professional Engineer, and a designated Consulting Engineer in the Province of Ontario. After graduation he returned to the University of Toronto, where he obtained his M.A.Sc. (1968) and Ph.D. (1971) degrees in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry.
Since 1979, Dr. Diosady has been the professor of Food Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at U of T. His research interests include oilseed processing, extrusion, advanced separation processes, and micronutrient fortification of food. He is the author of over 120 publications in refereed journals, including 15 patents.
His research was acknowledged by a Canada Award for Business Excellence in the “Inventions” category in 1987, was called one of the Top Ten Products/Processes by the Institute of Food Technologists in 1990, he received the Professional Engineers of Ontario Engineering Medal for R&D in 2003, and he received the Eva Award of the Canadian Institute of Food Science and technology in 2007. He was inducted into the U of T Engineering Alumni Hall of Distinction in 2004. Both his sons are engineers.
Rex Newkirk, Ph.D.
Director of Biofuels and Feed
Canadian International Grains Institute
Dr. Rex Newkirk is the Director of Biofuels and Feed with the Canadian International Grains Institute (CIGI), a non-profit organization that has been providing world-class training and technical support for users of Canadian field crops. Since its inception in 1972 over 31,000 people from 114 countries have received CIGI training.
Dr. Newkirk received his Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan for extensive work with the canola processing industry where he helped identify the conditions for processing seed into the highest quality meal possible for livestock. During his studies he worked closely with two other researchers to develop new technologies to produce cost-effective, high-quality protein concentrates from canola. Dr. Newkirk holds several patents and is the co-founder of MCN Bioproducts Inc., a company that has commercialized this unique technology. In addition, CanPro Ingredients Ltd. licensed the technology and built the first commercial canola protein concentrate plant.
In 2003 Dr. Newkirk joined CIGI where he provides technical support and training in the biofuel and feed sector. He has conducted seminars and feeding trials in a large number of countries where he has demonstrated the properties of Canadian feed ingredients in fish, swine, poultry and dairy rations. He also produced a new flax feed industry guide and a revised canola feed industry guide and is in the process of producing a soybean guide. Dr. Newkirk developed a unique portable biodiesel plant and biodiesel training program at CIGI that has been used to train over 1800 people through 68 courses held across Canada and the US on the production and utilization of biodiesel from a host of feed stocks. He has successfully produced biodiesel from a wide range of feedstocks including canola, soybean, sunflower, flax, hemp, camelina, stink weed, fine weed seed screenings, tallow, used cooking grease, coffee grounds, corn, peanut, safflower, mustard and bin heated canola.
Murray Thomson, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto
Prof. Murray Thomson is currently a Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, and is also cross-appointed with the Dept. of Chemical Engineering. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1994. His research is in the area of combustion with a focus on experimental and modeling studies of chemical kinetics, pollutant formation, biofuel flames, and optical sensors. As an educator, Prof. Thomson has supervised the thesis research of 41 graduate students and published 46 journal publications. He is a project Leader for the AUTO21 National Centre of Excellence. He is a theme leader, and on the Network Management Committee of the “Agricultural Biorefinery Innovation Network (ABIN)”. He is on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Section of the Combustion Institute.
Jorge Castillo, M.Sc.
President
Argentum Consulting
Jorge holds a M. Sc. degree from the University of Missouri. He is a certified Six-Sigma Black Belt, trained in the use of analytical tools and methods to implement technology. His vast experience includes conducting experiments to optimize processes, measuring systems and other tools to mitigate risk and variability. He has in-depth knowledge of feed ingredients processes and manufacturing of feed, animal nutrition and feed formulation, waste water management and recycling of materials to preserve the environment.
Jorge’s career includes –among others- beef, dairy, poultry and swine production. He has worked with the vitamins and pigments industry becoming an expert in premix formulations, servicing the customers in technical matters such as least cost formulation and quality control of their feed mills.
As Manager of formulation and ingredients database maintenance in the Corporate Research & Nutrition unit of Shur-Gain Maple Leaf Foods, he was responsible for designing system to reduce variability in feed formulation, keeping a close relationship with the chemists at the feed laboratories. There, he developed products for Rothsay (sister company) valorizing traditional rendered products. [Fish Meal Analogue and Amino-Plus] and successfully implementing projects to reduce cost, defects eliminating sources of variation in six Rothsay rendering plants; a minimum of two projects was completed every year with certified savings by the accounting department of at least $200,000 per project per year, managing disciplines of logistics, mechanics of rendering, use of surveys to assess customer satisfaction, discovering sources of variation in the Biodiesel process and wastewater and foul air controls.
Recently, he has effectively completed projects such as Process design and quality deployment function for a multinational feed company, interaction between nutrition R&D, sales, purchasing, finance, cost allocation of formulation ingredients, quality and inventory controls; Production of a proprietary ingredient for a new feeding application in marine fish feeding; Modification of a basic feed ingredient to meet a specific characteristic to the quality of pigmented fish filets.
David T. Balke, Ph.D.
Dr. Balke has more than 18 years of investigation and innovation experience in the field of environmentally-conscience industrial processes. His work includes simulation and modeling of the sunlight photochemical destruction of organochlorines in pulp and paper mill effluents, and the development of an organic solvent-free process for the production of protein isolates from mustard seeds. His unique combination of analytical skills and technical knowledge, gained through industrial and academic R&D, is strongly focused on innovation, process control, modeling, problem-solving, quality control, safety and profitability.
For the past three years, Dr. Balke has been active in the food industry. His work focused primarily on the development of new products and their implementation on a commercial scale for many of the country’s largest principals such as Cargill, Maple Leaf, Sofina Foods, Concord Meats and Highliner Foods. He has built great working relationships with suppliers, end-users and colleagues through technical competence as well as effective communication, team and leadership skills, all tempered with an entrepreneurial flair
Dr. Balke is active in several professional organizations, such as the American Oil Chemist Society for which he has presented several times and also helped chair and organize industry conferences in the past. Dr. Balke is a University of Toronto triple grad, having obtained his B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science, M.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering – Pulp & Paper, and Ph.D. in Food Engineering. Complementing his doctorate degree, Dr. Balke has also received formal Chef’s Training from George Brown College.
Boad of Advisors; Management and Marketing
Dr. Paul Missios, Ph.D.
Chair Economics Department
Ryerson University
Dr. Paul Missios holds a Ph.D. in Economics from York University, an M.A. in Economics from York University, and a B.Comm in Commerce and Finance from the University of Toronto. He is presently Chair of the Department of Economics and Associate Professor at Ryerson University. He previously taught at York University and has acted as a consultant for the City of Toronto and the Ontario Centres of Excellence - Earth and Environmental Technologies. His research is focussed on environmental economics (biodiversity, pollution, waste), environmental management and policy, natural resource economics, applied game theory, and international trade and the environment. He has published papers in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Environmental and Resource Economics, Canadian Public Policy, Economics Letters, Ecological Economics and Marine Resource Economics.
Mr. Steve Paul, MBA
Mr. Paul is Managing Director and founder of Lancashire Capital Corporation - a financial advisory services company based in Toronto, Ontario. He has over 12 years of corporate and commercial banking experience working with large corporate and mid-market companies across a wide range of industries including Metals & Mining, Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Power Generation.
Mr. Paul has an MBA from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and a BA (Economics) from the University of Western Ontario.
Chair of the Board
