Richard MacPherson brings over 30 years of executive experience from a variety of industries across North America. Serving as President and CEO since 2016, Richard MacPherson oversees the expansion, development, and commercialization of the company’s proprietary emissions control technologies across the fossil-fueled energy sector. Mr. MacPherson founded the Company in 2008 to commercialize the Sorbent Enhancement Additive (SEA®) technologies originally developed by the DOE and EERC. Under MacPherson’s strategic direction, these highly innovative and patented SEA® technologies were launched across the coal-fired utility markets in the United States and Canada starting in 2011.  Mr. MacPherson negotiated the full SEA® patent portfolio acquisition in May 2017.  Since that time, the Company’s patent portfolio has expanded with additional patents and patent applications in North America and beyond in both mercury emissions capture and water purification technologies.

MacPherson’s corporate vision for Birchtech is focused on sustainable, highly effective environmental technologies that address crucial challenges faced by critical infrastructure.

Richard MacPherson is an active member of multiple professional industry organizations, including the Southern States Energy Board (SSEB) and the American Water Works Association (AWWA). As a Canadian national, MacPherson is also recognized as a necessary professional in the top 2% of the mercury emissions control technologies industry by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).