Is a pioneering company in the field of waste treatment and waste-to-energy technologies. Founded by Risalde Baraquiel, a seasoned mechanical engineer and overseas Filipino worker of 34 years. HTC was the extension of Hornbird Technology Limited founded in Hong Kong by the Founder.
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Hornbird was founded by a group
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Founded by Risalde Baraquiel in 2019, a firmware and cloud computing expert and seasoned mechanical engineer with 40 years of design, manufacturing, construction and business management experience. He has a successful entrepreneurial history, founding a factory in China in early 2000 and became the largest automotive clean vision system supplier in the world after just 3 years of operations. In 2005 he founded a successful Waste Management company in Hong Kong and became the major solution provider to public and private sector. He was also a Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health engineering consultant for Apple, Foster & Partners, Wynn Palace Resorts, HSBC, Arcadis, Leighton, Cundall and Hong Kong Highways Department. He is also a full stack web application developer.
Risalde received several appreciation certificates awards from ASHRAE (American Society of Heating and Refrigeration & Airconditioning Engineers) for his contributions in waste to energy technology, from Hong Kong Airport Authority for introducing the smart construction safety technology at the Terminal 2 expansion, Hong Kong Development Bureau for sharing the smart site safety system of the future to leading developers, contractors, government agencies and our peers in the tech industry and from the Safety Organization of the Philippine Inc. (SOPI) for his contribution in introducing smart occupational health and safety technologies.
Risalde and Karl resides in Hong Kong for over 30 years and been a friend and business partner for many years. Karl has a degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the prestigious University of Coburg, Germany. Karl has over 30 years of software and application development experience and a brilliant innovator. He is gifted with a visionary focus on the technology of the future. He is an expert in IoT, front end, UI and UX technology, back end and server less technology. He supports the development framework of modular hardware (schematics, PCB’s and Firmware) and software integration with the Hornbird IoT system that can monitor a wide range of scenarios.
Dr. Rey has a Doctorate master’s degree in Dentistry. Aside from being a dentist, Dr. Rey is an expert in health care waste management system.
Arjay is our Solid Waste and Leachate treatment expert and a chemical engineer who graduated as Cumlaude of his class.
