About Us

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Dr. Weaver is a serial entrepreneur with more than 40 years of experience founding and operating over a dozen companies in the automotive, aerospace, advanced materials and energy fields.  

He holds 11 U.S. Patents and is the recipient of the Award of Merit from ASTM and multiple entrepreneurial awards from the Governors of Missouri and Tennessee.  

Dr. Weaver earned a B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri S&T), and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Tennessee. 

José  María Figueres Olsen served as President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998. Figueres has also been involved in global issues such as climate change, sustainable development, and technology. José María Figueres entered public service as Minister of Foreign Trade and then Minister of Agriculture. In 1994, he was elected President of Costa Rica, as the nation's youngest elected president of the 20th century. In 2000, he joined the World Economic Forum in Switzerland and has served as President of the Board of Leadership in Environment and Development (LEAD). Member of the Board of Directors: World Wildlife Fund (WWF), USA; World Resources Institute (WRI); Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). Since 2010, he has been Chairman of the Carbon War Room, an independent non-profit organization focused on the global transition to a low-carbon economy.  

A full professor at the School of Civil Engineering of the University of Costa Rica, Dr. Loría is recognized as one of the most important scientific researchers in the area of pavements in Latin America. He has taught pavement design and materials for more than 20 years and has directed dozens of undergraduate, master's, and doctoral theses.

Dr. Loría has published about 180 scientific articles in the most important global journals in the field and is a full member of scientific committees in the Transportation Research Board (TRB), and of the Board of Editors of the IJPE and the RMPD, two most important pavement journals in the world, is a member of the boards of directors of the International Road Federation and the Costa Rican Institute of Cement and Concrete (ICCYC). He is currently Vice President of the International Society of Asphalt Pavements (ISAP).

Dr. Loría regularly lectures in Latin American, the United States, and Europe, receiving more than 70 international invitations to talk about his scientific research and was the winner of the 2018 Juan Antonio Fernández del Campo Award for Technological Innovation in Roads, the most important award in Ibero-America in the field.

Alan brings over two decades of high-level experience in government, corporate, and association work. He provides corporate and non-profit clients with successful strategic planning, business developments, and government relations initiatives in the communications, energy, and advanced materials industries. Alan serves on a number of non-profit boards and as a strategic advisor for early-stage advanced materials companies.