World-leading clean energy technologies, developers, and financiers assembled to accelerate net-zero transitions and maximize their economic development potential for institutions, industries, and governments.

There’s been a major technological breakthrough in geothermal power at Johns Hopkins University.

The GenaSys™ system efficiently harvests heat from existing water in deep, Hot Sedimentary Aquifers, a well mapped and globally abundant renewable resource. It produces firm, dispatachable, emission-free electricity, economically, for decades before allowing the resource to naturally recharge for future harvests.

GenaSys™ is ideal for direct use, as well as for stabilizing the buildout of wind and solar. It was issued patents in 2024, and was recently awarded the state of Colorado’s first ever permits for deep geothermal.

Today, we are developing commercial projects with GenaSys™ and a suite of complementary technologies.

Transformative Technologies is structured and financed to implement economic development as well as academic and workforce development programs with the support of Johns Hopkins University, and our world-leading industry partners for select decarbonization technologies.
  • Ground Source Heat Pumps
  • Geothermal Power Production
  • Waste Heat Recovery Cogeneration
  • Green Hydrogen Ecosystems
  • Microgrids

  • Dr. Stephen Browne

    CEO

    Dr. Stephen J. Browne is an experienced CEO having built successful businesses in multiple innovative, high tech disciplines. His expertise includes developing independent energy projects and bringing advanced technologies to global markets. Dr. Browne has a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT and an AB in Economics from Johns Hopkins University.

    As CEO of The Stanton Group, which he founded in 1986, he has promoted and developed new energy technologies and projects in the USA, former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China. After developing renewable, waste to energy, and conventional facilities in the USA, culminating in a $250 million combined cycle gas power plant that subsequently was purchased by a major electric utility, in the early 1990’s Stanton moved its focus to developing energy projects in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and then in the 21st Century began working intensively in China.

    Dr. Browne serves on the board of Geothermal Technologies Inc. where he has guided the technology development of the GenaSys™ system to market.

  • Dr. Dennis O'Brien

    PRESIDENT

    Dr. Dennis O’Brien is an industrial economist who has served as a senior executive officer at some of the world’s leading information companies. At one time in his career, every Fortune 500 industrial company was his client - simultaneously. Dr. O’Brien has a Ph.D. in Economics from SUNY Graduate School of Public Affairs.

    At Union Carbide Corporation he headed up a team of economists that included Alan Greenspan, Otto Eckstein, and Lawrence Klein. As Chairman and CEO of Ziff-Davis ISG, he acquired, developed and sold Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates to the French Atomic Energy Commission. He has acquired, merged, and/or IPOed more than four dozen companies.

    He was an American foreign correspondent and a financial columnist for China Monitor, where he wrote more than 400 articles on Chinese industrial economics. He was the Chief American Economic Advisor to the PRC’s State Information Center, the PRC’s largest and most prestigious “think tank.”

    Dr. O’Brien is a member of the Pen and Sword Society, Marine League, Omicron Delta Epsilon, and the former Chairman of the Information Industry Association.

  • Colleen Davis

    FINANCIAL ADVISOR

    State Treasurer of Delaware with a history of fiscal excellence, especially healthcare finance and community economic empowerment.

  • Christopher Franzese

    CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER

    Marketing executive with strategic and communications experience launching and building global brands across a wide range of industries.

  • Cleon Cauley Sr. Esq.

    GENERAL COUNSEL

    Former Chief Operating Officer of Delaware State University and previously Deputy Planning Director for Delaware Department of Transportation.

  • Clay Cauley Sr. Esq.

    DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL

    Experienced counsel and executive previously with the City of Philadelphia including management of numerous programs in public health.

  • Larry Windley

    DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

    Senior Fellow, Biden Institute. Served as the Assistant Secretary of the State of Delaware. History as a senior advisor to leaders in the public and private sectors.

  • Professor Bruce Marsh

    CHIEF SCIENCE ADVISOR

    Johns Hopkins GenaSys™ team founder and Academy Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences. Preeminent expert in planetary magmatic processes.