About Us

Basanite Industries is a leading resource, market developer and composite manufacturer of disruptive high-performance Basalt fiber reinforced polymer (BFRP) products, with a primary focus on the construction market.
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Leadership Team

​Frederick H. Tingberg, Jr. – Chief Technology Officer
Frederick H. Tingberg, Jr. has served as Chief Technology Officer since February of 2021.  Mr. Tingberg is a construction industry executive with extensive experience in leading construction and rehabilitation projects.  Since 2020, Mr. Tingberg has served as the Chief Executive Officer of his own construction industry consulting company, Technicon Consulting Group, and since 1993, he served as in two capacities with Lanzo Corporation, an infrastructure construction company, first as Business Development Manager and since 2018 as Chief Operating Officer.  At Lanzo, Mr. TIngberg oversaw underground infrastructure construction project operations and led 160 total staff in completing over 20 projects annually.  He is responsible for overseeing safety, environmental compliance, proposals, hard dollar bonded bidding, material selection, purchasing, financial controls, budgeting, and contracts with strategic partners.  From 1984 to 1993, he served as Regional Pipe & Supply Area Manager for SEMSCO, a division of Clayton Group.  Mr. Tingberg holds several state general contractor licenses, and he received a B.S. degree in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Jackie Placeres– Interim Chief Financial Officer
Jackie Placeres, previously served as the Company’s Controller since 2021. The Board selected Ms. Placeres to serve as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer because of her longstanding relationship with the Company and because of her accounting and public company reporting experience.

​Members of the Board

Ronald J LoRicco Sr.- Chairman & Interim Chief Executive Officer
Ronald J. LoRicco, Sr. has served as a member of our Board of Directors since June 2017 and since September 2022 serves as our Chairman of the Board. Mr. LoRicco is an attorney practicing in the areas of civil litigation, insurance defense, criminal law, estate planning and administration and workers' compensation. He is also admitted to practice in Florida and United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Mr. LoRicco is a member of the American, Connecticut, and New Haven Bar Associations, American Trial Lawyers Association and Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association. He attended Fairfield University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1986. He received a Juris Doctor degree from Quinnipiac College School of Law, formerly known as the University of Bridgeport School of Law, in 1989.

Adam Falkoff – Director
Adam Falkoff has served as a member of the Board of Directors since September 2020. Mr. Falkoff has over 20 years of experience in public policy, international relations, and business development. He has advised CEOs of the Fortune 100, Presidents, Prime Ministers, Cabinet Ministers and Ambassadors. Since 2000, Mr. Falkoff has served as the President of CapitalKeys, a bipartisan global public policy and strategic consulting firm based in Washington D.C. His expertise is to successfully help clientele understand, anticipate, and navigate the complex public policy environment as well as strategies for business development driving client revenues. Earlier in his career he served as professional staff in the United States Senate. Mr. Falkoff was a 2018 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for service to the United States of America and named in the Power 100 of Washington, D.C. by Washington Life Magazine. Mr. Falkoff has been an invited guest speaker, panelist, and moderator on a wide range of public policy and business development related topics in several industries. He has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Palm Beach Post, Politico, Roll Call, The Hill, The Washington Diplomat, Jack O'Dwyer's Newsletter, Capitol File, Washington Life, National Journal, Technology Law Journal, Greenwire, Appliance Magazine, and The Opportunist Magazine. Mr. Falkoff received a B.A. from Duke University and both an M.B.A. and M.I.M. (Master of International Management) from the Thunderbird School of Global Management on an academic scholarship in 1992. Mr. Falkoff also holds a Certificate in International Law from the University of Salzburg, Institute on International Legal Studies.

Manuel Rodriquez - Director
Manuel A. Rodriguez has served as a member of the Board of Directors since December 2021.  Since 2004, Mr. Rodriguez as served as a principal officer of Concrete Products of the Palm Beaches, Inc. and Vice President of U.S. Supplies, Inc.  In these capacities, Mr. Rodriguez leads these companies in all of their principal activities, including concrete product manufacturing and distribution both nationally and internationally, as well as environmental engineering services.  Since 2003, he has also served as a Vice President of Beton Brunet, an infrastructure products and services company, where he overseas Southeastern United States operations.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Rodriguez held several positions in the construction industry, including as a General Manager of Tri-County Concrete (1992 to 2003), Master Electrician with Stallion Electric (1989 to 1992) and a Geologist with Star Petroleum (1986 to 1989).  Mr. Rodriguez is a certified master electrician in the State of Florida and is associated with several construction and concrete industry trade groups.  He earned his B.S. degree in Geology from the University of Florida.

Frederick H. Tingberg, Jr. - Director
Frederick H. Tingberg, Jr. has served as a member of the Board of Directors since December 2021.  Mr. Tingberg is a construction industry executive with extensive experience in leading construction and rehabilitation projects.  Since 2020, Mr. Tingberg has served as the Chief Executive Officer of his own construction industry consulting company, Technicon Consulting Group, and since 1993, he served as in two capacities with Lanzo Corporation, an infrastructure construction company, first as Business Development Manager and since 2018 as Chief Operating Officer.  At Lanzo, Mr. TIngberg oversaw underground infrastructure construction project operations and led 160 total staff in completing over 20 projects annually.  He is responsible for overseeing safety, environmental compliance, proposals, hard dollar bonded bidding, material selection, purchasing, financial controls, budgeting, and contracts with strategic partners.  From 1984 to 1993, he served as Regional Pipe & Supply Area Manager for SEMSCO, a division of Clayton Group.  Mr. Tingberg holds several state general contractor licenses, and he received a B.S. degree in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Sergio S. Salani - Director
Serigo S. Salani has more than 30 years’ experience in legal, finance and real estate matters, international transactions, specialty finance, technology, commercial real estate investment management and investments in the energy sector. From 2016 to the present, Mr. Salani has served as the founder, Chief Executive Officer and General Counsel of Stoneway Group, L.L.C., an advisory firm providing services with regard to. Also from 2016 to the present, Mr. Salani has served as co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ubii.com, a digital marketplace that was launched in February 2021. From 2011 to 2016, he served as co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Oxford International Group, L.L.C., a privately held financial firm that acquires high credit quality, highly illiquid assets which was sold to an affiliate of Blackstone Group. From 1997 to 2011, Mr. Salani served as partner, legal counsel and Senior Vice President of Peachtree Settlement Funding, L.L.C., an originator of specialty finance receivables such as structured settlements, lottery payment receivables and life settlements, where he was instrumental in building the company from a start-up to a several hundred employee operation and in taking it public in 2006 on London's AIM Market, a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange. Mr. Salani received a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Economics as well as a Master of
Business Administration degree from Drexel University, and a Juris Doctor from Temple University. He is a member of the bars of the State of Florida and the District of Columbia.

Paul M. Sallarulo - Director
Paul M. Sallarulo has served as a member of our Board of Directors since April 2017. He served as Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Nexera Medical Inc. from July 2006 through 2015.  Previously, Mr. Sallarulo had an extensive financial career in capital markets and investment banking in senior positions with Wachovia Securities, where he was the Senior Vice President from July 2003 through June 2006 and Prudential Securities, where he served as Senior Vice President from October 2001 through July 2003. Additionally, Mr. Sallarulo served as Vice President at Meridian Capital Markets from February 1991 to August 1996. Mr. Sallarulo was appointed Commissioner of the North Broward Hospital District by Florida Governor Jeb Bush for two four-year terms beginning in January of 1999. While there, he oversaw four major hospitals, thirty-eight clinics, six thousand professionals, and a budget in excess of $2 billion, and served as Chairman of the Legal Review Committee from 2002 to 2005, Joint Conference Committee from 2004 to 2006, Broward Health Foundation from 2002 through 2004, Community Relations Committee for Broward General Hospital from 2002 to 2004, and Community Relations Committee for Imperial Point Medical Center from 2005 to 2006, respectively. Mr. Sallarulo served on the Board of Directors of Foss Manufacturing, LLC Company, Board of Trustees of Nova Southeastern University, Chairman of the Board of Governors of Nova Southeastern University - Wayne Huizenga School of Business, President of the International Alumni Association of NSU, Nova Southeastern University College of Dental Medicine Advisory Board, and was inducted as the first Honorary member into Sigma Beta Delta Society – International Honor Society in Business, Management and Administration. Mr. Sallarulo also served as a member of the Planning and Zoning Board of Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Personal Advisory Board Fort Lauderdale, the Fort Lauderdale Marine Advisory Board, and the Economic Development Advisory Board. Mr. Sallarulo was Co-Founder of Broward Bank of Commerce and served on the Board of Directors. Mr. Sallarulo assisted in the sale of Broward Financial Holdings, the parent company of Broward Bank of Commerce, to Home BancShares, parent company of Centennial Bank in 2014. Mr. Sallarulo currently serves on the Regional Board of Directors of Centennial Bank and serves on the Loan Committee, and Strategic Planning Committee. Mr. Sallarulo received his M.B.A from Nova Southeastern University in 1984. Previous to that, Mr. Sallarulo attended Bernard Baruch College from 1978 to 1981 where he obtained his Bachelors in Business Administration, and attended SUNY Adirondack between 1975 and 1977 where he obtained his Associate of Applied Science degree.