REVIVE ENVIRONMENTAL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Product Engineering Manager
Brandon ("Kamanu") joined Revive in February 2023 as the Product Engineering Manager.
During his 23-year career, he has worked in multiple engineering disciplines and in varied organizational structures. Having spent 9 years in aerospace and defense with Lockheed Martin and Raytheon and 14 years in embedded/industrial controls and automation systems with Milwaukee Electronics, Kamanu's experience in technology and business processes is extensive.
Mr. Loo's technical expertise stretches from airborne radar to inkjet printing and his customer focused engineering strategies have been honed by varying types of contracting relationships.
Job Titles:
- VP of Business Development
Daniel Longbrake joined Battelle in January 2021 as the Commercial Business Lead for PFAS and Environment. He is responsible for developing and executing go-to-market strategies and nurturing client relationships by positioning Battelle as a trusted partner to secure long-term mutually beneficial business relationships with Battelle's commercial customers.
Mr. Longbrake has close to 35 years of experience in the environmental field and has held national leadership positions related to business development and sales, business operations and technical project management.
Prior to joining Battelle, Daniel worked for TRC from 2011 to 2021. Mr. Longbrake held a variety of roles with increasing responsibilities that including leading the go-to-market strategy for PFAS, establishing TRC's national account management program and developing the format for sales and business development process. In those positions, Daniel led multi-functional teams and provided leadership in goal setting and executing strategy, tactics and actions to achieve sales and financial performance goals
Before joining TRC, Mr. Longbrake worked for several environmental consulting and engineering firms. During that time, Daniel held business development leadership, operational leadership and principal technical oversight roles.
Daniel holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- President
David Trueba joined Revive Environmental in January 2023, and serves on the board and as President and Chief Executive Officer.
David's 20 year career has been in the allied chemical, materials, and environmental services industries. Prior to joining Revive, David was the Vice President and General Manager of Evoqua's Pro-Act Environmental Solutions Division, where he led the mobile remediation and granular activated carbon business. He joined Evoqua in 2018 as the Regional GM of the high purity water treatment business in the west of US and Canada. Mr. Trueba held various positions of increasing responsibility in sales, marketing, product line management, purchasing, leading teams at Adams Rite Aerospace, Entek International, and Celanese. David served on the non-profit board of Young Entrepreneur Business Week (YEBW). He has a M.B.A from the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas, and a B.S. in Chemistry from Texas A&M University. He holds five patents on process chemistry technology and optimization.
Kevin Boyne joined Battelle in 2011 and serving as Chief Operations Officer of Revive Environmental, as well as the Director of Program and Operational Excellence for Battelle's Applied Science and Technology business. Reporting within the Performance Excellence group, Kevin is accountable for targeted investigations and improvement actions with purpose to advance operational effectiveness, efficiency, and compliance. Ongoing improvement initiatives within Performance Excellence seek to further integrate business and quality systems in ways that reduce operational uncertainty, cost of execution, and cost of poor quality.
Prior to this role, Kevin was the Director, Performance Excellence, and a former Business Unit General Manager, delivering mission-critical, technology-driven, hardware and software solutions serving clients' needs in national security.
Kevin has 26 years' experience in passenger car and heavy truck product design and development serving vehicle original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and their suppliers. Prior to joining Battelle, he was a Senior Business Development Manager and Chief Engineer involved in international joint ventures where he was active in deal team, formal due diligence, and business case. His career in new product development included chief engineer positions in advanced engineering, systems engineering, competitive product benchmarking, product verification/validation and production readiness.
Kevin is a graduate of The Ohio State University in Mechanical Engineering and earned his MBA at Indiana Wesleyan University.
Job Titles:
- Director of Product Portfolio and Marketing
- Leader in Scouts BSA
Trevor Whitson joined Revive Environmental in February 2023 to lead the development and execution of go-to-market strategies based on voice of the customer and market opportunities.
Trevor has over 20 years' experience in corporate, consulting and start-up roles across several industries including agriculture, oil & gas, chemicals, aerospace & defense, healthcare, commercial real estate, technology, and private equity.
Prior to joining Revive, Trevor's leadership included 9 years at Scotts Miracle-Gro as General Manager of various consumer and professional lawn & garden businesses, including the turnaround of a biotechnology start-up targeting homebuilders. Mr. Whitson held leadership positions at Sprinturf, Archer Career and Celanese Corporation. He was a management consultant at Bain & Company and Booz & Company with work focused on strategic marketing, innovation, growth strategies, organizational change, operations, and due diligence.
Trevor is an active leader in Scouts BSA. He received an M.B.A. with High Honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a Sc.B. in Materials Engineering and A.B. in Philosophy from Brown University.