Our Team

Edmond L Lonergan, President/CEO, CTO

Edmond L Lonergan is an advisor and is a highly experienced, creative executive that over the last fifty years has helped develop and deploy numerous high-tech products and services. These would include health and police software systems, supermarket systems, computerized voting systems, in-body heart pump controller, vein cleaning processes, heart fibrillation control, chip manufacturing controllers, hydrogen generation, fuel additives and DOD signal processors.

For the past 14 years, Mr Lonergan has been concentrating his efforts on the development of an organic, high-speed food-growing system that can grow enormous quantities of both animal and human foods using very few resources. The system is now being commercialized and is capable of eliminating starvation and reducing hunger worldwide. This growing system can make a difference in the health and well-being in many countries that are experiencing food insecurities, including numerous wealthy nations.

Matthew Lanfrankie, VP Sales and Marketing

Matthew Lanfrankie has been in the machine building and machine sales business for over 30 years. Early in his career after 3 years in the military he did everything from building electrical panels to machine assembly and field installation and service of all types of machinery including automotive assembly equipment. And is now a recognized industry professional in all types of capital equipment sales. He has spent the last 30 years in the capacity of a professional consultant, machine sales as an independent rep, contracted with a Brazilian company to open an office in the U.S., a regional sales manager, and Director of Sales for a prominent packaging machine manufacturer in Wisconsin, and currently the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Healing Earth Technologies. In all the positions listed, Mr. Lanfrankie has increased sales and cut waste, including eliminating poor performing sales personnel.

John J Cooper, CFO

John brings almost forty years of business acumen in various industries with the last fifteen years spent in the Energy sector. John was co-founder of City Power and Gas LLC – an Energy Service Company (ESCO) reselling natural gas and electricity predominantly in the highly competitive New York State marketplace.  John began the business in 2010 and helped grow the business organically from $160 thousand Net Profit to $3.6 million in 5 years.  Prior to starting City Power John worked at Big Apple Energy, Maritime Capital Partners Fund, Prudential Equity Investors Inc.

John is the founder and President of MCJ Consulting LLC, a Scottsdale, Arizona based consultancy that was formed in 1998.  Through MCJ several companies have approached and retained John to consult in the role of Chief Operating Officer and/or Chief Financial Officer. He is currently the CFO of Healing Earth Technologies.

John is a graduate of New York University’s Stern School of Business where he received his M.B.A. in Finance as well as Hofstra University, where he received his B.S. in Computer Science. John graduated from Xavier High School, a Jesuit College Preparatory School in New York City.

Jim Schoenberger, VP Operations

With more than fifty years in the marketing, communications, and film and video production industries, Jim Schoenberger served CSK Auto, Inc. as vice president – marketing for the third largest automotive aftermarket retail chain in the U.S. As an advertising agency president and marketing officer for major U.S. specialty retail, retail banking and restaurant chains, Jim’s Clio-winning advertising campaigns have broken new ground in the creative presentation of products and services. The film and video production industry has always been an important part of Jim’s personal and professional life as well. In addition to producing dozens of television and radio advertising campaigns, he has completed production and management assignments for Disney and Twentieth Century Fox.

Jim not only worked on promoting the growing system, but he has also worked for the past 13 years to help develop the food growing system and was responsible for operating our test system and managing the initial beef and dairy cattle herd tests

In addition to our management team, Healing Earth Technologies has developed long-term relationships with the following “strategic partners”, many of which have help us financially and also have freely helped to improve the overall growing system design.

Strategic partners include

  • Siemens Corporation (Germany): Control hardware and software components

  • Sun West Engineering Corp (Phoenix, AZ): Manufacturer of the growing systems

  • Barkley Seed Company (Yuma, AZ) Barley Seed supplier

  • Custom Controls (Phoenix, AZ): Assembly and test of controller sub-systems.

  • Maskine Software (Phoenix, AZ): Development of control software. Approved Siemens partner.

  • Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ): Academic research and certification of test results.

  • Interlink Engineering and Design (Phoenix, AZ): Product design consulting.

  • H D Hammers Construction Inc (Colorado Springs, CO) Designers and Builder of the Growing System Buildings.