Brent Fitzgerald, Technical Manager, Industrial Program provides technical industrial expertise on offset project review and verification oversight in both the California regulatory and voluntary carbon markets. He also contributes to the development and approval of innovative ACR GHG emissions reduction quantification methodologies and verification strategies for carbon markets.

Prior to joining ACR, Brent has 10 years of experience in GHG reporting, sustainability, and multi-media environmental permitting and compliance with an emphasis in state and federal air quality regulations. While with Pinnacle Renewable Energy, he served as Environmental Manager for two Title V SBP-certified wood-pellet manufacturing facilities in Alabama, where he completed monitoring and reporting requirements, built upon data management systems, and developed permitting and compliance strategies alongside optimal plant performance. At Trinity Consultants, he served as Senior Environmental Consultant for industrial clients in the oil & gas, chemical, and power sectors across the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, where he worked with plant personnel and corporate management to complete complex construction and modification permitting projects, regulatory agency enforcement resolution, and professional training. He also researched and authored reports on systemic sustainability in higher education and on supplementing a landfill gas to energy (LFGTE) system with anaerobic digester (AD) biogas from organic waste. Brent received a bachelor’s degree in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Vanderbilt University and a master’s degree in Environmental Management from Duke University.