The REA Team
Bob graduated from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario in 1973 with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Chemical Engineering. After working in the pulp and paper industry for two years, Bob returned and earned a Master's degree in Business Administration. He went on to gain extensive and successful design engineer and project manager experience with large capital projects. Bob then became Manager of Engineering and Utilities at a fully integrated consumer products tissue mill in British Columbia where he furthered his knowledge of water treatment, wastewater treatment, steam systems, and boiler house operations.
Bob was recruited as Vice President of Engineering and Projects for Glegg Water Conditioning (now G.E. Water) and helped the company on its path to doubling the size of the company. Key clients included Intel, Mead Paper, and other Fortune 500 companies. He went on to become a key technical resource for high purity water and wastewater treatment for Hewlett-Packard's US and international operations. In addition, he has been a founding partner of an industrial piping and fabrication company focused on heavy industry.
In total, Bob has over 35 years of experience that ranges from detailed engineering, construction management, senior operations management with Fortune 500 companies, as well as hands-on project management, procurement and specialized process engineering capabilities for the food, semiconductor and pharmaceutical, pulp and paper, and waste treatment industry sectors.
Larry graduated from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon in 1973 with a B.Sc. in Manufacturing Engineering Technology. Since his formal education, he has accumulated 37 years of multifaceted experience ranging from corporate management to new business (personal) endeavors. Successes were revealed by his continual progression from operational engineering (engineering management) assignments through corporate assignments ranging from new product/technology genesis plus acquisitions/divestitures and start up and the successful operation of a private company. Organizational objectives focused on increasing operating margins through innovative manufacturing technologies, optimizing logistics of multiple production locations, new product category development, international product applications, environmental evaluations and action plans, patenting of product process and technologies.
As an entrepreneur, Larry established an operating company with heavy focus on process industry engineering, project management, acquisitions, intellectual property development, business and working capital optimization, profitability enhancement, energy management and utilization as well as execution of new product family categories. Additionally, he interfaces with senior management in the determination of applicability of tactical company strategies in support of long-term business strategy, with the current focus in the food and fine chemical industries.
Dr. Liu graduated from Hong Kong Baptist University in 1984 with an Honors Diploma in Biology. From there he attended Glasgow University in Scotland, United Kingdom and graduated in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Botany, distinguishing himself with First Class Honors. After working for several years as a high school Science and Mathematics teacher, he then attended the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology and the Department of Science and Engineering at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland Oregon.
In 1995 he graduated with a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology. As a Postdoctoral Fellow at Noble Foundation in Ardmore, Oklahoma, Dr. Liu’s research area focused on the molecular mechanism that is involved in the symbiotic association between plants and vesicular-arbuscular (VA) mycorrhizal fungi. The VA fungi assist plants in obtaining phosphate and other mineral nutrients from the soil. Knowing the molecular mechanism may offer the possibility to reduce the amount of fertilizers applied to the soil, thereby alleviating some of the problems associated with fertilizer pollution to the streams, rivers and the ocean.
Dr. Liu was invited to work at the Neurological Sciences Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon. While there his research interest was the molecular events that occur in the retina of rabbits after optokinetic stimulation. Understanding this mechanism may give new insights into the concept of neural plasticity and may provide new approaches in the treatment of neurological disorder such as epilepsy.