ABOUT REAL FUELS
Ike Yancy | CEO and Managing Member
The project inception began with Ike Yancy, a Georgia resident with several years management in the refinery, energy, and plastics industry. Ike's growing interest in the waste to energy sector, coupled with his experience and unabated fascination with the energy industry, made him keenly aware of the need to switch from fossil fuels to resources that are less damaging to the environment, while also generating industry and jobs in his native Southern States, where oil refining is deeply ingrained in the culture.
Ike and a small, trusted team have reviewed many Asian, North American, and European technologies together with their associated business processes over the last 4-5 years. The technologies reviewed vary in engineering, performance, and corporate governance, and it was not until one of these stood out clearly from the rest that the project was born.
The technology was chosen not only for its measurable performance and high standards, but also for the diversity in being able to process different types of waste streams to produce options of any type of oil, refined or crude, gas and electricity.
The project has been initially planned around the use of chipped timber processed through a single stage low temperature conversion to Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel and Sustainable Aviation Fuel.
W. DAVID STOUTAMIRE | Project Development Executive
Mr. Stoutamire has over forty years' supervisory experience in the design and construction industry. Throughout his career he has been responsible for managing corporate, government, and institutional project/program management engagements for clients nationally and internationally. Mr. Stoutamire's experience includes commercial office, industrial distribution, data centers, call/service centers, aviation, manufacturing, retail, retail banking, residential tract development, site utilities infrastructure, railroad industrial sidetracks, surface roads and streets, higher education, medical, and institutional research. He currently manages all research laboratory development projects for the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of the TECHNOLOGY. The College of Engineering occupies over 1 million square feet of research space distributed across 37 separate buildings. In 2018, the College of Engineering research activities exceeded $209 million.
Mr. Stoutamire formerly was an operations director for the Mace Group, one of the world's leading project and program management firms. At Mace, Mr. Stoutamire was responsible for selling and managing project/program management engagements nationally.
Mr. Stoutamire spent the first ten years of his career as a military officer in the US Army Corps of Engineers. During his military service, he supervised a wide variety of new construction, renovation, and facilities maintenance projects in the continental United States, the Middle East, the Far East, and the Pacific basin.
After military service, Mr. Stoutamire entered private practice in suburban Maryland, serving for three years as VP of Construction for a single- and multi-family residential developer where he was responsible for all site development design and construction and for all trade procurement, scheduling, and production. Mr. Stoutamire then moved to Atlanta to join Draper & Associates, a construction program management and scheduling firm. While with Draper, he helped manage the Georgia Board of Regents' 4-year, $210 million program to prepare Ga Tech to host the Olympic Village for the 1996 Olympic Games.
Following the 1996 Olympic Games, Cushman & Wakefield, one of the world’s largest commercial real estate services firms, recruited Mr. Stoutamire to be the Director of Project Management for Atlanta and the Southeast. During his ten years at Cushman & Wakefield, Mr. Stoutamire was responsible for marketing, selling, and managing corporate project/program management engagements to clients throughout the southeastern United States.
Mr. Stoutamire is a distinguished graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He holds advanced degrees in engineering from the University of Florida (Civil Engineering and Construction Management) and an MBA from Emory University.
STEWART ANDREWS | Design Consultant and Shareholder
Apprenticed for five years as an engineer at British Aerospace, Stewart then set up his own design consultancy, which quickly expanded to provide design specialists for local engineering companies.
With a high demand for architectural design Stewart adapted his skills to designing homes and commercial buildings, while continuing to work on engineering designs.
Co-designing a yacht with the world famous naval architect Alan Pape, Stewart took a brief sabbatical to cross the Atlantic with his family and end up living in the British Virgin Islands in 1987, with a double trans-Atlantic yacht crossing in 1990/91.
Again forming his own consultancy, Stewart worked on the design and project management of several large construction projects, and with the devastation of BVI, Balsum Ghut Prison by flash floods, Stewart was called in to trouble-shoot this project. Designing a flood defense system, he oversaw this work together with restoration and completion of the buildings to deliver the completed project on time and within budget.
On the back of this success the BVI Government awarded Stewart with the senior project management position for overseeing the design and construction of a multi-purpose theater and library. Fitted with variable acoustics and low noise air conditioning the completed 413 seat state-of-the-art theatre caters for lectures, theater, stage and film projection.
Relocating within the Caribbean, Stewart than set up and ran the Caribbean's largest portal for real estate, with over US$2 Billion of listed properties in 28 countries and has recently designed the site layout and written the technical details for the Real Fuel business plan.