Troy comes from a Norwegian dairy-farming family near Madison, Wisconsin.   Today, he and his wife, Lisa, live near Atlanta, Georgia.

Troy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry, and he has both his Master of Science and Doctorate degrees in Environmental Engineering.  He began his career in the chemicals, plastics, and petroleum refining industries for over 17 years at the facility and corporate levels.  Troy has worked for Union Carbide/Dow Chemicals, Huntsman Corporation, and Cabot Corporation.  For 12 years, Troy was then in a consulting role as the Vice President of Sage Environmental where he directly managed Sage’s 26 person Atlanta operations and the Sage flare team.   Also while at Sage, he was engaged in several other business growth opportunities in China and India.  Further, from 2013 to 2017 he was the President of IMACC which was an advanced optical measurement technology company well known for fenceline monitoring and the TCEQ passive FTIR flare performance testing work.   Over the years, he has directly participated in flare permit negotiations, flare performance testing, and flare minimization efforts domestically and in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Argentina, France, India, and most recently in Italy and China. He has conducted multiple flare emissions modelling projects for ground flares, elevated flares, and emergency flares.

Troy co-founded Spectrum with several friends in June 2017 and he is a frequent instructor and speaker within the monitoring and measurements technology area and on industrial flare management control.  He is currently providing air-quality related flare consent decree, instrumentation, and flare enforcement consulting.  In the past decade, Troy and his team have been involved with advanced instrumentation and flare compliance and/or improvement opportunities at well over 500 flare systems throughout the United States.