Formerly 5-Trees, LLC

The Botsford Team

Krista Botsford, CEO/Founder

Krista Botsford is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Botsford EcoTech Partners. She is a subject matter expert in strategies for preparing companies to comply with world-wide environmental laws, regulations, and design requirements such as the EU's “Restriction of certain Hazardous Substances” or RoHS directive (commonly referred to as "Pb-Free"). Before founding Botsford EcoTech Partners, Krista was employee no. 5 at Cooper Perkins, Inc., from which she spun off under the original name 5-Trees. Krista also worked in a number of technical positions at IBM in New York and California. She earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University and an M.S. in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Video: Krista Botsford at the IPC Conference talking about eco-compliance and the work of Botsford EcoTech Partners.

When Krista needs to unwind, she races formula cars. She is a nationally licensed driver and instructor with SCCA. In 2000, she won both the New England Region and North Atlantic Road Racing Championships in the Formula Ford class.

Krista is involved in a number of industry-related activities as a volunteer. Krista holds the Education and Marketing Sub-committee Chair position for the 2-18 committee within the IPC Association. She was instrumental in forming the Sustainability Forum sub-committee for the North Shore Technical Council (NSTC). Prior to relocating to Las Vegas, Krista was also the web master for the Boston Chapter of the Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA).

Frank Stifter, COO/Business Development Manager

Frank Stifter is the Chief Operations Officer and Business Development Manager at Botsford EcoTech Partners. Frank joined BETP after a successful career at Motorola Connected Home Solutions (formerly Broadbus Technologies) working as an Engineering Director for their on-demand video solutions group. He has also held technical leadership and product development positions at Gotham Network, Asic Alliance and Cabletron Systems generating more than $500 million in revenue for these companies. Frank received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from the University of New Hampshire.

In his life away from work, Frank is active in his community working with the 'Destination Imagination' program at his daughter's school. He is an accomplished woodworker and building contractor. He enjoys spending time boating and fishing at his lake house in Maine as well as raising apple, pear, peach and cherry trees.

Edmund Green, Strategic Advisor

Attorney Edmund Greene is a 14 year legal professional and a successful entrepreneur, having owned and successfully sold his boutique insurance business to a $70 million revenue company - negotiating directly with their CEO. As a former small business owner with clients ranging from the sole proprietor to Fortune 100 companies, he values the need to comprehend complex legal matters and respond to clients' legal needs promptly and professionally. Attorney Greene also has through knowledge of legal and risk management experience in environmental and corporate compliance as well as the insurance and financial services industries. He holds a LL.M. in Banking & Financial law and is the founder of the Law Office of Edmund A. Greene. To compliment his J.D. from Western New England College School of Law (1994), Attorney Greene also holds a B.S. in Environmental Conservation from the University of New Hampshire (1991).

Personally, Ed resides in Beverly and can easily reach the court houses in Salem but his practice extends throughout Massachusetts. He has a 5 year old daughter he adores and attempts to make into a "fisherwoman" - which happens to be something he enjoy doing right in Beverly. Ed is proud to have run the 1999 and 2007 Boston Marathons (4:21 and 3:38:31 respectfully) raising over $4,000 in charity for the Liver Foundation and the Lazarus House of Ministries in Lawrence. Ed performs pro-bono legal work in Salem Family Court and assists a non-profit organization close to his family's heart in Western MA.

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76 Northeastern Blvd
Suite 31A
Nashua, NH 03062
p: 603.589.2502
info@botsfordeco.com

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