Team.

Douglas Lee (Ni-gi-goons)— Founder and Chief Executive

Douglas Lee is the founder and chief executive of White Clay Industries. He leads project origination across the firm's three lines of business: community solar, utility-scale energy, and AI hubs — data center campuses purpose-built for AI compute. He architects the procurement-preference discipline — NBOA Priority 2, IEE eligibility, federal Indian-preference framework — that runs through every project entity the firm forms. Douglas is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, a federally recognized band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, and a descendant of the Mississippi Band of Chippewa (Anishinaabe). He operates from the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota. He served as a Delegate on the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe's Constitutional Reform Committee from 2018 to 2020 and as Chair of the White Earth Delegation from 2020 to 2022. He has worked with White Earth Economic Development and served as a liaison to the White Earth Reservation Business Council. He has led WCI since founding the firm in 2018.

Terry Bohl— Chief Operating Officer

Terry Bohl is the chief operating officer of White Clay Industries and one of the most experienced tribal solar developers in the United States. He spent ten years as Chief Operating Officer of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, where he established the Tribe as a national leader in tribal solar energy — over 3.9 GW of solar development and more than 1,200 MW of battery storage moved across his tenure, twelve utility-scale solar projects developed on the Moapa Indian Reservation, and standardized templates that compressed Tribal solar development timelines from three years to under one. He continues to consult to national and international solar developers building utility-scale projects on Nevada reservations. Terry's operating background runs broader than solar. He has carried Tribal Employment Rights Office (TERO) compliance for tribal construction projects, built and operated truck-stop and fuel-sales businesses serving reservation and reservation-adjacent communities, and led fireworks distribution operations on Tribal land. He is a retired police officer from Sparks, Nevada, and began working with Tribes after his retirement — first with the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, then with the Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada, then a decade at Moapa, and at WCI since 2024.

Ron Willman— Vice President, Business Development

Ron Willman leads business development for White Clay Industries. He spent fourteen years at Motorola as a sales and business executive across datacom, telecom, and wireless communications, where he secured Visa, the State of California, Pacific Gas & Electric, Pacific Bell, and Bank of America as clients, exceeded his quota every year, and was named Motorola Regional Director of the Year and a five-time President's Club Award recipient. After Motorola, Ron founded RDW Associates, a business development consultancy where he collaborated with Terry Bohl on the Portable Communications and Incident Command System (PCICS) — the first-of-its-kind portable wireless network deployed by Tribal governments and emergency-response agencies. In 2014, the Moapa Band of Paiutes used PCICS to reach FEMA after a flood event and secured over $1 million in emergency funding within ten days. PCICS is now used by most Nevada Native American Tribes and other Native American groups in Washington, California, and Arizona.

White Clay Industries maintains a curated bench of legal, financial, engineering, EPC, transmission, and federal government-affairs counsel beyond the named principals. Bench composition adjusts to project requirements. Specific advisor and partner identities are confirmed under NDA.

White Clay Industries operates from the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota, with offices in San Francisco and Las Vegas, and active project work and partnership relationships across multiple regional markets in the United States.