About GSR Solutions

Nutrient Recovery From Waste

Cleaner water, fertilizer, agriscience, and waste-to-value pathways.

Waste-to-Value Biotechnology for nutrient-rich residuals
Water Nutrient recovery for cleaner water pathways
Agriscience Recovered nutrients for fertilizer and soil health
Recovery Project pathways for farms, digesters, and partners

Company Snapshot

A platform company connecting waste, water, agriculture, and resource recovery

GSR focuses on nutrient-rich residuals that can be transformed from handling challenges into recovered value, cleaner recycled water pathways, and useful products.

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Nutrient Recovery

Capturing nitrogen, phosphorus, and organic value from manure, digestate, residuals, and wastewater.

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Water Solutions

Supporting cleaner water pathways through nutrient treatment, recovery, and optional polishing.

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Agriscience

Connecting recovered nutrients with fertilizer products, crop performance, and soil health pathways.

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Resource Recovery

Advancing project pathways that connect waste streams with energy-linked and value-added outputs.

Mission & Purpose

Turn nutrient loss into practical value

GSR Solutions helps farms and food and beverage operations reduce nutrient pollution and create new value by capturing excess nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater and transforming them into useful, marketable products.

GSR’s scalable, bolt-on biotechnologies are designed to support cleaner water, stronger resource recovery, and practical economic outcomes across water, agriscience, and energy applications.

Through this work, GSR supports cleaner waterways, stronger agricultural systems, and more sustainable pathways for resource recovery and economic growth.

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GSR values and community-oriented work

GSR values responsible growth, collaboration, and practical environmental outcomes.

Our Values

Principles that guide GSR’s work

GSR’s work is grounded in practical innovation, responsible execution, and long-term relationships with customers, collaborators, and communities.

Integrity

Responsible, transparent business with respect for communities and industries served.

Innovation

Practical technologies that address challenges across water, agriscience, and energy.

Teamwork

People, advisors, and collaborators are central to execution and long-term success.

Safety

Thoughtful consideration for people, operations, and communities.

Sustainability

Economic value creation tied to better environmental outcomes.

Quality

Dependable performance and solutions shaped by real customer needs.

Partnership

Long-term relationships with customers, collaborators, and stakeholders.

Community

Responsible growth that contributes positively where GSR works.

What We Do

Transform nutrient-rich residuals into environmental and economic value

GSR develops and advances biotechnology-based solutions that help address nutrient loading, improve resource efficiency, and create useful downstream products from organic waste streams.

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Water Solutions

Nutrient treatment and recovery pathways designed to reduce nutrient loading, improve water management, and support cleaner recycled water.

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Agriscience Solutions

Recovered nutrient pathways that support fertilizer, crop-input, nutrient-efficiency, and soil-health opportunities.

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Energy Solutions

Digester and energy-linked pathways designed to improve resource utilization, support co-products, and strengthen project economics.

Integrated Capabilities

Technology, project, and market-pathway support

GSR combines technology development, farm and digester experience, agriscience commercialization, project development, and market-pathway support.

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Technology & Process Development

Platform development, system configuration, and process pathway support.

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Waste Stream Evaluation

Nutrient recovery review for manure, digestate, residuals, and wastewater.

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Project Development Support

Farm, digester, food processor, and commercial project planning support.

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Fertilizer & Agriscience

Recovered nutrient pathways, product development, and market activity.

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Water & Resource Recovery

Water-quality, nutrient management, and resource-conversion pathways.

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Commercial Pathways

Partner engagement, product channels, and commercialization support.

Our Story

From systems research to commercial nutrient recovery

GSR’s roots go back to earlier research by its co-founders on complex ecological systems, nutrient cycles, and resource management. That work helped shape a practical vision: create value from waste nutrient inflows while supporting healthier agricultural systems and waterways.

The company has advanced from sustained research and development into commercial-scale deployment, treating farm waste, recovering excess nutrients, and producing organic fertilizers that are actively sold in the market.

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GSR Solutions history and milestone timeline

GSR history and milestone timeline.

Before 2014

General Systems Research launched

The founders launched General Systems Research in 2008 to pursue innovation in waste-to-value and energy-related solutions, building on earlier systems-based research.

2014

GSR Solutions LLC reorganized

The company transitioned from sustained research and development into real-world application of nutrient recovery and resource recovery technologies.

2021

Agriscience expansion

GSR expanded its commercial focus into regenerative plant and soil nutrition and organic crop-input solutions while continuing water and energy-related work.

Today

Commercial deployment and market activity

GSR technology is used to treat farm waste, recover excess nutrients, and produce organic fertilizers that are actively sold in the market.

Foundational Background

Systems thinking applied to practical environmental challenges

GSR’s broader vision was informed by earlier work in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when its co-founders were advancing a novel application of general systems theory to complex, self-organizing, and adaptive ecological systems.

That work helped lay a conceptual foundation for practical biotechnology solutions in agriculture, water quality, and sustainable resource recovery.

The approach was first applied to ecological studies in the foothills of the Himalayas in India and later adapted to nutrient management challenges connected to nitrogen and phosphorus pollution in the Chesapeake Bay and Lake Champlain Basin.

GSR technology, research, farm, and site activity

GSR technology, research, farm, and site activity collage.

Partners & Stakeholders

Collaboration across the nutrient recovery value chain

GSR works with partners and stakeholders across the nutrient recovery value chain. These relationships help advance practical projects, validate solutions in real operating environments, and expand pathways for deployment across water, agriscience, energy, and broader resource recovery applications.

Partnerships help connect on-site operating needs with technical development, field validation, market opportunities, and implementation support.

Representative partners and stakeholders

Representative partners and stakeholders.

  • Farm and digester partners
  • Food and beverage operations
  • Dairy cooperatives and producer networks
  • Utilities and energy-related stakeholders
  • Researchers, agencies, and technical experts
  • Commercialization and market partners
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Leadership, Operations & Advisory Network

Cross-disciplinary experience for nutrient recovery and waste-to-value projects

GSR’s team combines experience in nutrient recovery, agriculture, biotechnology, anaerobic digestion, engineering, finance, commercialization, project development, and public engagement.

Leadership & Founders

Operations, Finance & Growth

Technical & Project Experts

Strategic & Market Advisors

Agricultural & Public Relations Advisors

Anju Krivov, PhD, MBA

Anju Krivov, PhD, MBA

Founder, President & CEO

Leads GSR’s waste-to-value, nutrient recovery, agriscience, and strategic business development efforts.

Anju Krivov, PhD, MBA, is a conservation-focused biotechnology and bioenergy leader advancing solutions that turn agricultural, farm, and food waste into high-value organic fertilizers, biologicals, and energy pathways, including SAF, RNG, and CHP. Her work focuses on reducing nutrient losses, improving soil health, and protecting watershed water quality.

She combines earth stewardship with implementation and commercialization experience to strengthen local and regional supply chains and deliver measurable environmental outcomes for agriculture and food systems. She holds four patents for converting organic waste into high-value products for food, water, and energy markets.

Under her leadership, GSR Solutions, a pioneering waste-to-value biotechnology business she co-founded and reorganized in 2014, developed and patented organic technologies for the agriculture, food, water, and energy sectors, including energy production from anaerobic digesters.

This work supported expansion through NutriHarvest Inc., a go-to-market partner platform she co-founded in 2018. At GSR, she led one of the three Farm-to-Fly 2.0 national-level initiatives supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, CAAFI, and supply-chain partners. Previously, she co-founded General Systems Research LLC in 2008 to foster innovation in bioenergy and support emerging businesses.

In addition to entrepreneurial work and consulting in industrial biotechnology and due diligence, she had a long-standing affiliation with the University of Vermont as a professor of Bioenergy and Waste to Value and authored and edited two editions of the college textbook Bioenergy: Biomass to Biofuels.

She served as an advisor for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge program and is currently a Board Member and Treasurer for a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering women by providing economic opportunities to those facing employment barriers.

Sergey Krivov, PhD

Sergey Krivov, PhD

Founder & Vice President

Guides technology, software, project systems, and business development support across GSR initiatives.

Dr. Krivov has 23+ years of experience in ecosystem services, software engineering, and project management. His background includes ecoinformatics, knowledge representation, Bayesian modeling, cyberinfrastructure, and business development support for GSR projects.

Michael LaClair

Michael LaClair

Chief Operations Manager

Helps lead operations, farm coordination, business management, and project execution support.

Mr. LaClair has over 40 years of experience in agricultural business management, marketing, sales, operations, customer service, finance management, and farm project execution.

Daniel Welch, CPA

Daniel Welch, CPA

Chief Finance Manager

Supports finance, accounting, business analysis, and growth-oriented financial management.

Mr. Welch is a financial professional and CPA with experience in auditing, private-sector finance, manufacturing, non-profits, and business growth support.

Nicholas Krivov

Nicholas Krivov

Chief Growth Officer

Leads growth, digital strategy, marketing, analytics, eCommerce, and commercial engagement support.

Nicholas is a Dartmouth College graduate with experience in business development, SEO, email marketing, website analytics, eCommerce platforms, and social media.

John Forcier, P.E.

John Forcier, P.E.

Civil Engineer

Provides expertise in biogas, anaerobic digestion, wastewater, RNG, and renewable-energy project engineering.

John has more than 50 years of experience in planning, design, permitting, and construction of municipal and private renewable energy, biogas, anaerobic digester, and wastewater treatment projects.

Richard Altman, MBA

Richard Altman, MBA

Farm-to-Fly Advisor

Advises on aviation fuel pathways, CAAFI relationships, and sustainable aviation fuel project activity.

Richard L. Altman is a 42-year aviation veteran and founding member of the U.S. Transportation Research Board Committee on Aviation effects on the Environment.

Bonnie Pratt, PhD

Bonnie Pratt, PhD

Business Development Advisor

Advises on utility engagement, customer behavior, energy transition, and market-development insights.

Bonnie’s research investigates residential customers, utilities, demand charges, renewable orientation, and the role of utility leadership and policy context in energy transition strategies.

Roland Scott, MBA

Roland Scott, MBA

Business Strategy Advisor

Advises on investment diligence, energy markets, business development, and commercialization strategy.

Roland is an energy and management consultant with broad energy technology experience, including solar, wind, geothermal, CHP, smartgrid, batteries, sensors, fuel cells, and energy management.

Stephen Densham

Stephen Densham

Business Growth Advisor

Advises on entrepreneurship, business development, hospitality, operations, and growth strategy.

Steve has developed, owned, and operated businesses across hospitality, wholesale meat and seafood, travel, recreation, and fulfillment industries.

Bill Rowell

Bill Rowell

Ag Advisor

Advises on dairy operations, farm nutrient recovery, producer engagement, and on-farm deployment context.

Bill Rowell farms with his brother Brian at Green Mountain Dairy Farm in Franklin County, Vermont. The farm has hosted GSR’s nutrient recovery biotechnology to convert dairy manure waste nutrients into organic fertilizers since 2021.

Cheryl Diersch

Cheryl Diersch

Public Relations Advisor

Advises on communications, public engagement, and community-facing messaging.

Cheryl is an entrepreneur and communications advisor with experience building and growing businesses, supporting community programs, and working across education and international development contexts.

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