The Woodland BIO Team
Luca Pandolfi
FOUNDER & CEO
Luca founded Woodland BIO to pioneer a circular economy for transportation fuels, merging business efficiency with environmental sustainability. After refining his concept through academic research at Ithaca College, Pandolfi validated its feasibility in the 2013 Ithaca College Business Idea Competition, where the project won first prize.
Once graduated, Luca went on to work for various start-ups and businesses doing marketing and business development. In 2021, he started work on a revised version of a prototype system that would be implemented in the northeast, and so Woodland BIO was born.
Rich Bohr
CO-FOUNDER & COO
Rich’s extensive background in both energy and utilities has been invaluable toward refining the project into a viable engineering and business strategy.
He has worked in various leadership capacities for Pacific Gas & Electric Company, PSNC Energy, Stone & Webster Management Consultants, Dominion Energy, Whitetail Natural Gas Services, and now Woodland Biomass Innovations. Rich’s career started with a Mechanical Engineer from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Matt Difasi
CFO
Matt is a certified CPA who joined Woodland BIO after over six years as a controller with Corning Incorporated, before joining their mergers and acquisitions team. Before joining Corning, Matt oversaw the sale of Canyon Environmental LLC as their CFO and worked as the Controller for Dirt Excavating, LLC. After verifying the feasibility study and business model, Matt helped to develop a comprehensive investment roadmap to help launch the first facility.
Chris Wilcox
Community Development
Chris is also a certified CPA with extensive roots and connections in the Tioga County community, where Woodland BIO is locating the first facility. Chris’s intimate understanding of the area and extensive connections have been essential for everything from finding potential sites to conducting a grassroots community investment campaign to help finance the project. Professionally, Chris has worked in the forest products and gasoline retail spaces at various points in his career, including nearly a decade as controller with Woodhouse: The Timber Frame Company.