Founding Operating Company

C1FT Energy Systems

Modular fuel production systems that transform C1 feedstocks — stranded natural gas, associated gas, flare gas, biogas, and other carbon-based resources — into transportable liquid fuels and energy products.

Overview

Who We Are

C1FT = C1 (single-carbon feedstocks, principally methane) + FT (Fuel Transformation and Fischer–Tropsch technologies). C1FT Energy Systems is the flagship operating company of Foundry Point Energy Partners, built to unlock stranded and underutilized carbon resources through modular, deployable conversion technology.

Business Areas

Where We Operate

Modular Gas-to-Liquids

Deployable GTL systems sized to the resource, not the other way around.

Stranded Gas Monetization

Converting otherwise-flared or stranded gas into transportable liquid fuels.

Remote Community Energy

Energy systems built for locations underserved by conventional infrastructure.

Synthetic Fuels Production

Fischer–Tropsch-based synthesis of on-spec liquid fuels.

Sustainable Aviation Fuel

SAF pathways alongside renewable diesel production.

Carbon Utilization

Circular carbon systems that turn waste carbon into value.

How It Works

Process Overview

1. Feedstock Prep

Reclaimed telephone poles and clean wood shredded, sorted, and prepared.

2. Gasification

Oxygen-blown gasifier converts prepared feedstock to syngas at high carbon conversion.

3. Gas Cleanup

Syngas conditioning removes particulate, tars, and impurities to FT-grade purity.

4. FT Synthesis

Fischer–Tropsch synthesis converts syngas to liquid hydrocarbons.

5. Upgrading & Sales

Hydrocracking and fractionation yield on-spec renewable diesel for sale.

Leadership

Founding Team

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David Tusa

Managing Partner, Chief Financial Officer

Twenty years of investment banking, strategy consulting, and operating leadership across telecom, technology, and infrastructure — including Partner roles at IBM Consulting, Alvarez & Marsal, and Booz & Company, and CFO/COO mandates at Mount Farley Investments. Oxford-educated.

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Jake Schlaeger

Managing Partner, Chief Marketing Officer

Two decades of investment banking, capital markets, and operating leadership, including current roles as COO of Berens & Miller, PA and President of Graham Harper Consulting. Former institutional sales and healthcare investment banking executive at Merrill Lynch.

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Dr. Brent Carman

Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer

Three decades of energy technology research and development leadership, including President and Chief of R&D at CSA Energy Inc., directing gasification and biomass conversion programs for the U.S. Department of Energy and state governments. Multiple patents in carbonaceous-waste conversion technology.

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