Roger Sarrazin, Director, Technology Construction & Fabrication at Titan Clean Energy Projects

Roger is an entrepreneur, licensed inter-provincial heavy duty mechanic, licensed inter-provincial welder and multi-disciplined tradesperson with over 40 years of heavy construction and business experience. He successfully partnered and built one of Saskatchewan’s largest biomass harvesting operations in the forestry industry contracting mainly to Weyerhaeuser from 1994 to 2006. Roger joined Titan in 2008, and is responsible for the company’s project construction, equipment fabrication, and preventative maintenance. Roger serves on Titan’s board of directors.

Rick Pilling, Operations Manager at Titan Clean Energy Projects

Rick started with the company in early 2011 as a heavy equipment operator and gaining excellence in the operations maintenance of all of the company’s equipment and processes since then.  Rick has managed dozens of offsite jobs in locations  across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and now leads the yard crew with projects including material processing, pyrolysis, charcoal activation, and construction and maintenance. Rick’s keen eye for design was honed though a degree in art with a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan. After returning from time in London, England, he worked in the oilfields before joining Titan.

AJ Bird, Chief Hunter and Vice President of Business Development at Tatanka Oyate Holdings

AJ is a climate solutions entrepreneur in biogas (landfill and anaerobic digesters), modular clean water technology, clean energy finance for Indigenous projects, IoT for energy measurement, renewable natural gas, and nature-based carbon projects with expertise in Indigenous partnerships and carbon offsets. She is a former Toronto police officer who dovetailed her hostage negotiator training into formal executive business negotiation certificates along with a decisive manner to identify and harness the win-win for business opportunities and partnerships. She is frequently asked to present on Indigenous partnerships and benefits in the carbon sector in Canada and also at the international level. AJ is a Treaty 8 Indian and a member of the Deninu K’ue First Nation from the Northwest Territories. She has lived and worked in numerous provinces and also in the United States. Her role as the Chief Hunter and Vice President of Business Development for Tatanka Oyate Holdings, a wholly owned Wahpeton Dakota Nation corporation, is embraced as she goes out to hunt for opportunities for the nation’s benefit and prosperity with a particular emphasis on the climate solutions sector.