Mark Brown
CEO
Mark Brown has more than 15 years of diverse experience in design, management, manufacturing and project development of solid waste conversion technologies. He manages a diverse team of highly skilled individuals in his role as the chief executive officer of both WāstAway® and its parent company Bouldin Corporation. During his tenure at WāstAway he has led efforts for the finance, design, construction and commissioning of numerous 100+ tons per day facilities.
Since 1985, Brown has held executive positions in a variety of construction, automation and manufacturing companies. He has led seven multimillion dollar industrial development/construction projects, and currently serves on six corporate boards. Brown is a Paul Harris Fellow and recipient of the Free Enterprise Award. He graduated magna cum laude from Tennessee Technological University with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
Terry L. Moore
Chief Business Development Officer
Terry L. Moore is very familiar with all aspects of the waste-to-energy industry with more than 20 years of experience and has also served 25 years at the CEO level for innovative technology-based start-ups.
He worked for a Fortune 500 diversified natural resources company for 20 years and was responsible for several technology-based startup companies that employed transformative technology to produce marketable materials from waste and landfill diversion. Moore’s experience is both domestic and international in scope. As CEO, he held full P&L responsibility and led those company’s marketing and sales efforts to increase from startup to more than projected annual revenue. Moore has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, did graduate work in chemical engineering at Auburn University, and earned an MBA from the University of Alabama.
Todd Smith
Chief Communications Officer
Todd Smith is a veteran branding executive who leads the overall branding, PR, and marketing for WāstAway, which is poised for explosive growth in the coming years.
Smith, who was previously owner, president, and CEO of Deane | Smith agency, is a senior level branding expert with more than 35 years of experience in public affairs, government relations, branding, crisis communications, media relations, marketing, advertising, reputation management, and new business development.
A former staff writer for The Washington Times and speech writer for the George H.W. Bush for President campaign, Smith previously served on the executive team of Affinion Group, a global direct marketer, and has held senior public relations, marketing, and advertising positions with HCA and Gaylord Entertainment Co. Smith began his agency career at Atkinson Public Relations, where he was a leader in creating the Nashville Health Care Council.
A past president of the Public Relations Society of America | Nashville, Smith earned bachelor’s degrees in journalism, marketing, and English from Baylor University.
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.
Bill Martin
Vice President & General Counsel
Bill Martin has been vice president and general counsel of Bouldin Corporation since 2008. He has more than 20 years of experience in U.S. domestic and international project development.
Before joining Bouldin and the WāstAway team, Martin’s experience was in the energy industry with emphases in resource exploration and development, commodities trading and international law.
He is a former lecturer at the U.S. National Energy Law and Policy Institute. Martin earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Oklahoma State University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Tulsa College of Law.
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.
Rod B. Vera
Plant Engineer & Plant Manager
Rod Vera has worked in the MSW industry for 30 years, both domestically and internationally, supplying equipment and designing processes in multiple countries while solving waste problems globally. He also has years of experience in the wastewater treatment industry where anaerobic digesters were used to produce renewable natural gas.
Vera has been awarded multiple patents on innovative equipment, green technologies and processes used across the solid waste sector. He has designed and built several MSW transfer stations in addition to designing and advancing specialized waste handling equipment used in dewatering food waste.
Vera’s extensive experience and knowledge combined with his visionary thinking is critical for addressing variations and other issues inherent in MSW systems. He has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Samford University and studied mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
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.