Steve Napolitan
CEO
Steve Napolitan brings more than two decades of entrepreneurial leadership, strategic innovation, and human-centered business transformation to the company. His work over the years with municipalities, utilities and environmental innovators gives an acute understanding of how cities can integrate technology and sustainability without compromising budgets or community well-being.
Napolitan’s focus on regenerative business models and circular economy design aligns perfectly with WāstAway’s core mission: converting waste streams into clean energy and usable resources. Under his leadership, WāstAway will continue partnering with cities to divert waste from landfills, reduce emissions and create new economic opportunities — proving that caring for the planet and strengthening communities are not opposing goals but deeply interconnected responsibilities.
David Palmer
Vice President of Engineering
David Palmer is a civil engineer with more than 40 years of energy and environmental experience. He has permitted, designed, and constructed nearly $1.8 billion in facilities that have included cogeneration, electric generation, and steam generation.
Palmer is one of the world’s leading authorities on anaerobic digestion (AD) technologies and was co-author of the EPA’s first AD manual, the “EPA Agstar Anaerobic Digester/Biogas System Operator Guidebook,” which has become the industry standard handbook. He has pioneered innovative engineering, design, and construction of these technologies for decades.
Palmer’s professional background includes supporting the development of waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, alternative energy sources, management of energy production facilities, design of AD systems, gas and solid fuel-fired steam and electric generation, landfill gas recovery systems, gasification systems, and third-party energy production facilities. He has been involved in the financial evaluation of many projects, including review of technologies for investment companies, development of project financing, performing feasibility analyses for project financing, and determining life-cycle cost analyses as go/no-go decision for project implementation.
Palmer began his solid waste career in 1980 when he joined Wegman Engineers, a nationally recognized solid waste consulting firm. While at Wegman, he was project manager for the Palm Beach County Solid Waste Authority and Huntsville, Alabama comprehensive projects. Additionally, Palmer served as technical resource on multiple WTE, recycling, and landfill projects of the company. He has remained involved with the solid waste industry, specializing in MRF analysis and design, landfill gas, and WTE.
Palmer was recently senior energy project manager for Tetra Tech, Inc., responsible for pyrolysis, gasification, WTE, and biogas projects. He earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Georgia Tech.
Nancy Golden
Controller
Nancy Golden joined Bouldin Corporation as controller in 2009 and oversees financial operations for the corporation, which includes subsidiaries WāstAway and Bouldin & Lawson.
Golden previously worked for nearly 20 years in public accounting doing tax and audit work for clients, and in the health care industry, where she led cost accounting and software implementation for hospitals.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Lipscomb University.
Charles Moseley
Independent Marketing Representative
Charles Moseley is responsible for sales and marketing of WāstAway’s patented WTE technologies, working with numerous industries, including cement kilns, steel plants, pulp plants, paper plants and electric power plants to cultivate the thriving biofuels marketplace across the U.S., Asia, and South America. Moseley is the project sales lead for the company’s $105 million Kern County, California project currently in the final stages of engineering and design development. He leads additional projects in various stages of development worldwide.
Moseley has more than 25 years of experience in the WTE business focusing on innovative technology-based businesses. He is highly experienced in sales and marketing locally, nationally domestically and globally. Moseley previously launched a successful multi-city auto collision repair business that averaged 20% annual growth during the first decade of operation. He has a real estate background and developed or renovated a number of properties in Alabama and Mississippi. Additionally, he has served in leadership positions for numerous civic organizations in Alabama and serves as president of the Region 12 Spotlight Arabian Horse Futurity.
Moseley attended Livingston University, where he was a member of the Blue Key National Honor Society and served on the university’s student government. Moseley also studied at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Lindsey Patterson
Office Manager
Lindsey Patterson joined WāstAway as its office manager in 2021 and since has ensured excellent day-to-day operations, handling administrative duties, presentation and marketing development, and financial tasks, while serving as liaison between departments.
Patterson previously worked as a billing representative for Ascension Saint Thomas River Park Hospital in McMinnville, Tenn., where she was responsible for developing presentations, reports, correspondence, planning meetings, and training support personnel. Patterson was also a store manager at Extra Space Storage in Nashville and a preschool teacher for New Providence United Methodist Child Development Center in Clarksville.
She studied social work at Austin Peay State University.