Mission Statement

At Energy Recovery Systems, our key mission is to build outstanding, innovative products that make HVAC far more efficient, thereby conserving energy and natural resources and helping our customers realize substantial cost savings. Integrity in all business relationships is our operating cornerstone.

The People




Aniello Manzo - President, Chief Operations Officer, Director and Co-Founder

A senior professional within the HVAC Industry, Mr. Manzo’s career spans more than 20 years in various and progressive roles including operations, inspection, design, international commerce and executive leadership. Prior to managing the growth of Energy Recovery Systems, he owned and operated a multi-million dollar HVAC design and operations firm with clients throughout North America.


Aniello's functions within ERS consist of working in conjunction with the CEO as Co-Founder and Developer. Aniello is one of the Directors within ERS. Moreover Mr. Manzo formulates all the technical aspects of the company. As sole inventor of ERS' system design and integration (patents pending) Aniello has taken the conventional cooling chiller and engineered and designed the energy recovery unit to reduce the use of carbon fossil fuels. He continues to work closely with Professional Engineers to further research and develop this concept to share with the HVAC industry.

Jeff Ciachurski - Chief Executive Officer, Director and Co-Founder

Jeff Ciachurski is a business executive and has founded several public companies over the past 25 years. He is the founder and current Chief Executive Officer and President of Western Wind Energy Corporation, a wind energy generation company currently trading on the Toronto Venture Exchange. Western Wind is the owner and operator of over 500 wind turbines in California.


Jeff’s functions include executive leadership, strategic planning, corporate policy, and execution of the Company’s business and financial plan. He formulates the mission statement, corporate structure, appoints and designates senior management personnel, defines geographic areas of responsibility and engages senior independent consultants. Maintains continuous and proactive relationships with leading institutional and retail shareholders, and establishes and maintains close contacts within the investment banking and project financing community.

Heidi Ciachurski - Corporate Secretary

Heidi Ciachurski is a para-legal with over 20 years of experience. Heidi provides corporate, executive, administrative and regulatory support to executive management and board level functions.


Heidi is well-versed and experienced in corporate secretary, financial reporting, para-legal and investor relations responsibilities of public reporting companies.

Sean Marte - Chief Technical Engineer

Sean graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2003 with a combined Bachelors of Applied Science and Masters of Engineering in Electro-Mechanical Design Engineering. Over the past 6 years he has worked in product development as a design and test engineer for several manufacturing companies. His responsibilities involved designing, commissioning and operating test stands which, were used for testing new equipment designs. In 2008 Sean completed his registration as a Professional Engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (APEGBC).


Before joining Energy Recovery Systems Sean's experience includes design of heat exchangers, reciprocating compressors, heat pumps, and refrigeration equipment. In addition he is experienced with automation, instrumentation, data acquisition equipment and industrial design. His duties with ERS include system integration, machine and heat exchanger design, test loop design, performance verification and writing selection software for the various ERS products.

Energy Recovery Profile

A New Paradigm in HVAC

Based in Vancouver, Canada, Energy Recovery Systems designs and manufactures highly efficient HVAC systems that work with waste heat. Our unique, patent-pending technology represents a new paradigm for efficiency in HVAC, not only for lower costs but also reduced greenhouse gases.

The Captive Energy™ Line

In today’s cost and energy-conscious marketplace, the recovery of waste heat is emerging as essential technology for an increasing range of applications. That’s why we developed the Captive Energy™ line of heat recovery units—multifunction chillers and 140° water heaters that enhance or replace existing systems and operate at a fraction of the cost.

High Efficiency Systems

If you’re designing, building or managing a facility with cooling requirements that produce waste heat (from kitchens, laundries, refrigeration, etc.), consider our integrated designs. We can provide your heating and hot water at nominal or no cost and generate cooling with extremely high efficiency.

AHRI Certified Products

Captive Energy units are AHRI certified and manufactured under ISO 9001 quality management standards. That means you can upgrade with confidence that you’re purchasing products built not only to the highest standards but also with accountability and outstanding customer service.