David Spencer

Dr. Spencer is the business mentor of Dr. Zhang. He applies his successful company operation expertise and business wisdom to direct the Company to move fast on the right track. Dr. Spencer founded wTe Corporation in 1981 and served as its president until 2002. He led the company’s entry into the waste- to-energy field in the 1980s, and later guided wTe into the recycling business. Today, David is the architect and leader of two new technology ventures for the company: Spectramet LLC and Melt Cognition LLC. Both ventures are pioneering new methodologies for high-value metals identification and sortation. Prior to founding wTe Corporation, he was employed by Raytheon and part of a team of three that founded that company’s waste-to-energy business. Dr. Spencer was elected as a National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Member for his invention and entrepreneurship in materials manufacturing and recycling in 2014. Dr. Spencer holds a Sc.D. degree in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).