STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL & ENERGY RESOURCES - Key Persons


Chris Tyson

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director - MZ North America

Christopher Dieterich

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Secretary
  • Founder and Managing Partner of Dieterich & Associates
Mr. Dieterich is the founder and managing partner of Dieterich & Associates, a litigation and commercial law firm based in Los Angeles, California, providing legal services to entrepreneurial and emerging technology companies during the past 33 years. His firm specializes in venture capital and private equity financings, as well as in SEC compliance issues for public companies. He obtained his undergraduate engineering degree from Virginia Tech, graduate engineering degree from UC Berkeley (1970) and graduated from the joint Law and Economics program at UCLA in 1979, after serving six years in the US Air Force as a flight instructor in advanced jets. He has been a Director of the Company since 2008 and was Secretary from 2008 until November 2013.

Goerge "Ian" Smith III

Job Titles:
  • Certified Public Accountant
  • Interim Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Smith is a Certified Public Accountant with over 20 years of experience in both public and private accounting across a wide range of industries.

J. John Combs III - CEO, Founder, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • President
  • Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President and Secretary
Mr. Combs, a SEER Founder, is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO. He also serves as General Counsel. Mr. Combs has been Vice President of REGS since 2004, was the founder and President of Tactical Cleaning in 2005, and remains its President. Before joining the Company he owned and operated the law firm of Combs & Associates from 1989 to 2003. Prior to that he was an associate in the law firm of Berman & Blanchard in Los Angeles from 1987 to 1989, and an associate in the law firm of Parker, Milliken, Clark, O'hara & Samuelian, in Los Angeles from 1983 to 1987. His experience in private practice has included corporate maintenance, international finance, and business litigation. Over the last 30 years he has served as an officer and director of various sized corporations, both public and private, and was a Director and Officer of Armada Water Assets, Inc until his resignation in September 2014. For the past five years Mr. Combs has not served as a director of a public company, other than SEER. He received his B.A. from the University of Colorado, with honors, and a Juris Doctorate from Duke University School of Law in 1983.

Scott Yenzer

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Vice Chairman of the Board
  • Corporate Development Officer of Blackeagle Energy Services
Scott Yenzer, director of SEER and corporate development officer of Blackeagle Energy Services, is a 30-year engineering industry veteran with demonstrated strengths in the area of global relationships and operations growth plans. Mr. Yenzer's extensive engineering and management background includes domestic and global, commercial oil and gas transaction management for some of the World's largest engineering firms. He provides the SEER management team with a complementary perspective that is grounded in practical, hands-on experience in growing diverse businesses in both up and down cycles. Prior to his current role, Mr. Yenzer was COO and co-owner of Caribou Energy Corporation, which was sold in 2017. Prior to Caribou Energy, Mr. Yenzer served as vice president of Jacobs/CH2M, responsible for developing Enterprise Account Management on the executive committee for all business groups: Oil & Gas and Chemicals, Environmental & Nuclear, Water, and Infrastructure and Power. Mr. Yenzer built the successful Oil & Gas and Chemicals Global Strategic Account Team which included BP, ExxonMobil, Shell, Conoco, Hess TransCanada and Noble and led development of uniform account plans and growth strategies. During his tenure with Jacobs, Mr. Yenzer has held various positions from Project Engineer to Program Manager to VP of Business Development and his CV hosts a list of impressive ‘wins' resulting from his ability to grow relationships and revenues across all markets, while increasing value to clients.

Ted Haberfield

Job Titles:
  • Investor Relations MZ Group
  • President - MZ North America / MZ Group

Thomas A. Jones - President

Job Titles:
  • President
  • Vice President Business Development, MV Technologies
Mr. Jones brings to SEER more than 28 years of experience in the solid waste industry including all facets of landfill and landfill gas management. Tom's experience spans design, permitting, construction management, landfill management and engineering. Prior to joining MV Technologies Tom was general manager for the Landfill Division of a regional solid waste company located in the Midwest, overseeing operations of four landfills. Additionally, Tom developed his own landfill gas-to-energy project where he designed, permitted, financed, constructed and operated an LFG collection system that supplied LFG to supplement the fuel use of a lime kiln and a stone dryer. He has continued to evaluate the feasibility of various biogas projects - LFG and anaerobic digesters, as a consultant for several entities over the years. Tom graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Michigan Technological University.