Overview

Ecolomondo is a clean tech company that developed the Thermal Decomposition technology platform, TDP. This proprietary technology is based on a pyrolytic platform that converts hydrocarbon waste (scrap tires) into marketable resources: recovered carbon black, oil, gas, steel and fiber.

The TDP technology was perfected at our Contrecoeur facility and is now scaled at Hawkesbury. It was instrumental in achieving many of the proprietary milestones such as efficient process parameters, automation, emission controls, water recycling and safety, all needed for TDP to operate commercially, while ensuring quality and consistency of its end-products. 

Hydrocarbons are molecules that are in all products manufactured using fossil fuels. The most common types of hydrocarbon waste are tires, plastics, disposed diapers, asphalt roof shingles and automobile shred residue (ASR).

TDP creates much higher added value from hydrocarbon waste than conventional methods of recycling and disposal. TDP is also more sustainable and greener. The key advantages that will drive TDP’s success are quality and consistency of its end-products, high efficiency, high quality yields that has global demand, automated system, energy self-sufficiency, low production and low capital costs per ton of capacity

Rigorous Research and Development performed by our qualified team of professionals along with a dedicated and effective management have positioned Ecolomondo to be a major industry player.

Our Vision

For over 25 years we have overcome all of the technological challenges created by hydrocarbon waste. Our motivation was and is the result of our commitment to a cleaner and more sustainable planet by reducing and recycling hydrocarbon waste.

Our vision is to be recognized as a global cleantech innovator and strategic partner to industry and communities. Ecolomondo is committed to the commercialization of advanced recycling technologies and the international rollout of highly scalable turnkey Thermal Decomposition Process (“TDP”) facilities specializing in the responsible and cost-efficient treatment and transformation of hydrocarbon waste into valuable circular economy recovered resources. We envision Ecolomondo turnkey facilities operating throughout North America and overseas to ensure effective and eco friendly waste management.

While our focus has been and is on our technology, we believe in our corporate commitment to society, and for this reason, we have adopted the triple bottom line approach to business, focusing on people, planet and profit.

Our Values

✓ Sustainability

✓ Innovation

✓ Excellence

✓ Commitment

Our Mission

Ecolomondo’s mission is to mobilize widespread industrial resource recovery, working with business and community partners to reimagine sustainable waste management opportunities that efficiently transform end-of-life products into high-value circular resources with low-carbon footprints.

Management Team

Elio Sorella, B.Com.

Chairman of the Board and CEO

  • Chief Executive Officer for 24 years at Futurplast Extrusions, a leading plastic extrusion company in North America specializing in acrylic tubes, rods, and profiles

  • Chairman and CEO of the Sorella Group

  • Experience in textiles, cosmetics, real estate, plastic extrusion, transport, and private equity

Jean Francois Labbé, M.B.A., LL.M.

Chief Operating Officer

  • Strategy consulting manager with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Balanced Scorecard Collaborative and SECOR

  • Special Assistant to the Canadian Minister of Finance and of Regional Development of Canada

  • Counsel for Hydro-Quebec

  • Founding President of Recycor, a former leading Canadian scrap tire recycler

Donald Prinsky, CPA, CA.

Chief Financial Officer

  • 2010 –2014 Chief Financial Officer of Ecolomondo (reappointed in Jan 2015)

  • 2004 –2010 Founder of Donald Prinsky Consulting Services

  • 1969 –2004 Richter LLC (named partner in 1979)

Ahmed Kamar, Ph.D.

Director Automation

  • Automation engineer for 10 years with G.E. Industrial Systems

  • Designed control system integration and process automation for several Fortune 500 companies

  • Over 30 scientific articles in specialized journals

Hugo Morin, Eng.

Director Engineering

  • Industrial engineer for biotech and waste-to-energy companies including PGNature and Biofour

  • Experienced in design, manufacture, installation, and management of waste processing equipment

Board of Directors

Elio Sorella, B.Com.
  • Elio Sorella is Chairman of Ecolomondo’s Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and majority shareholder of the Company. He has been the Chief Executive Officer of Futurplast Extrusions for the last 24 years and has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Sorella Group of Companies since 1995. Mr. Sorella founded his first company nearly 45 years ago. Since then, he has started, acquired and managed successful companies in many diversified fields such as clothing, cosmetics, transportation and more recently, in plastics, real-estate and private equity.

Donald Prinsky, CPA, CA.
  • Donald Prinsky joined Ecolomondo as Chief Financial Officer in 2010. Mr. Prinsky is primarily responsible for financial planning, consulting, as well as financial reporting to higher management. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant, a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Quebec Order of Chartered Professional Accountants since 1971. Prior to joining Ecolomondo, Mr. Prinsky had a consulting company that provided management, financial and other related consulting services to the corporate private sector. From 1969 to 2004, he worked as a chartered accountant at RSM Richter where he became a partner in 1979. For over 35 years he provided audit and consulting services to a wide range of industries. Mr. Prinsky is very involved in his community, serving as a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee at the Douglas Institute, a leading teaching hospital affiliated with McGill University. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors at an Eldercare Centre.

Joseph Sorella
  • Joseph Sorella is an experienced executive who has worked in a wide range of management positions over 25 years. During this period, Mr. Sorella helped lead the Sonic Group of transportation companies as vice-president of operations. Understanding the need for the family businesses to transition to the next generation IT technology, he took the necessary steps to become a Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE). In the year 2001, he assumed responsibilities for all IT operations for the Sorella Group of companies and became vice-president of Futurplast Extrusions, positions that he still holds today. He studied in the philosophy department of Concordia University and garnered valuable “hands on” business experience during his various positions that allowed him to become a well-rounded executive.

Alain Denis, M.B.A., IAS.A.
  • Alain Denis is a rigorous executive with international experience in information technologies, life sciences and environment. Mr. Denis is Principal Vice-President for new economies at Fonds de Solidarité FTQ, a leading investment fund, where he previously managed investments in information technologies. Prior to joining the Fonds de Solidarité FTQ in 2009, Mr. Denis held a number of executive positions: he founded and managed Services Financiers AJP, an asset-based lending company, was founding Vice-President Business Development for Moxxi Medical, a wireless prescription technology, was Director of Strategic Partnerships at Argo Global Capital, a venture capital firm specialized on wireless communications, and was Executive Officer at Microcell, which was then a new cellular network. Previously, he was a Special Assistant to the Minister of Finance and Regional Development of Canada. Mr. Denis is member of various Boards of Directors of corporations and non-profit organizations. Alain Denis is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors, and he holds an M.B.A. from Laval and York Universities, with a scholarship from the Molson Donations Fund, and a business degree from Laval University.

Brigitte Gauthier, Esq. LL.B.
  • Ms. Brigitte Gauthier is a partner in the law firm Alepin Gauthier and has practiced there since 1983. She is a member of the Quebec Bar since 1983. She has been a member of numerous Boards and public committees, including the Foundation of Montmorency College, Hospital Cite de la Sante de Laval, Regina Assumpta College, Community Media Center of Laval, and The Montreal Movement for Private Education. Ms. Gauthier also headed pro bono a number of Boards as Chair. She has been the president of the Laval Bar, CAP Vie de Laval (Non-profit organization for social and community development), Laval Women Center (Non-profit organization for women support and social development), a prevention center for sexual-assault victims (CPIVAS), and the Parents Association of Laval College and of Ste-Marcelline College. She also co-founded and chaired the Alzheimer Society of Laval.

Mario Girard
  • Mario Girard is an experienced entrepreneur and manager with nearly 30 years of experience. Mario Girard has been President and Chief Executive Officer of the Quebec Port Authority (QPA) since January 2011. He was also member of QPA’s Board of Directors from 2008 to 2010. He was CEO of the Foundation of Entrepreneurship from 2008 to 2011 and founder and Chief Executive Officer of two information technology companies, Nstein Technologies Inc., from 2001 to 2007 and Gespro Technologies Inc., from 1985 to 2001. Mario Girard is a member of the World President’s Organization in addition to sitting on several boards of private, public, and publicly traded organizations for over 20 years.

Michelle Rosa, LL.B.
  • Michelle Rosa practices notarial law, including real estate transactions, human rights and estates, with the firm Dunton Rainville. She was admitted to the Chambre des Notaires du Québec in 2008. Mrs. Rosa develops planning and implementation strategies for estate transfers, acts as a consultant to estates and gives numerous conferences and training sessions to businesses. Mrs. Rosa received her law degree from Université du Québec à Montréal, her Diploma in Notarial Law from Université de Sherbrooke, and is completing a master’s degree in Taxation at the same University. She is an instructor at the Retirement Planning Institute and at Cégep Marie-Victorin (Continuing Education and Corporate Services). She also brings a wealth of experience in financial planning, in business management and in governance.

Suzanne Desrosiers, CPA, CA.
  • Mrs. Suzanne Desrosiers, CPA, CA, is Chief Financial Officer of Groupe Forget, a leading hearing health network based in Quebec with 100 clinics. She is an experienced executive in corporate restructuring, mergers & acquisitions and was the Chief Financial Officer and a director of Cortina Capital Corp., the capital pool company with which Ecolomondo completed its reverse takeover. Mrs. Desrosiers also had key positions as tax specialist in large multinationals. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from HEC Montreal, she has completed the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants In-Depth Tax Course, and she is a member of Chartered Professional Accountants Quebec, Chartered Professional Accountants Canada, the Tax Executive Institute and the Tax and Financial Planning Association.

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