
He financed public projects, helped build education companies, and then put methane on the balance sheet. Chris Romer’s career follows a stubborn question: what would make people pay attention - and act?

The Project Canary co-founder brings a financier’s eye to methane: every leak is lost product, and every measurement should lead somewhere. His next challenge is getting the data to earn its keep.
William Foiles is the co-founder and CEO of Project Canary, a Denver climate-tech company that builds high-fidelity sensors and an enterprise data platform to measure, verify, and report methane emissions across the oil and gas value chain. A CFA charterholder with finance roots at Goldman Sachs and a stack of Stanford degrees, Foiles bet that the fastest way to fight climate change was not protest but precision - measuring the invisible 25% of warming that comes from methane so operators can actually fix it.