WILLIAM STRAUSS

William Strauss, MBA, PhD - William Strauss is the President and founder of FutureMetrics, LLC www.FutureMetrics.com.  Over the past two decades, the FutureMetrics’ consulting team has grown and is currently recognized as the leading set of experts in the wood pellet sector.  Bill continues to publish papers on a variety of subjects relevant to the wood pellet sector.  He is also a founder and a Director of Maine Energy Systems www.MaineEnergySystems.com, the largest manufacturer of European style automatic pellet fueled central heating systems in North America.  Bill has been named as one of the most influential leaders in the biomass sector in 2016 and again in 2017 by Argus Media and is the 2012 recipient of the International Excellence in Bioenergy award.  In 2021 a dashboard built by Dr. Strauss won the Limitless Business Intelligence Dashboard award at a major business intelligence conference, IBIS.  Bill has more than forty years of experience in the renewable energy sector including 10 years operating large waste-to-energy plants in the 1980s.  He has an MBA (specializing in finance) and a PhD (economics and earth systems science) both from the University of New Hampshire.