About Renew/Well Advisory Group
Independent Advisory. Unconflicted Perspective.
Renew/Well Advisory Group is a Texas-based independent advisory firm serving municipalities, energy companies, and infrastructure partners across the south-central United States. The firm operates across three practice areas: municipal utility reliability assessment, commercial strategy and market development, and cross-border infrastructure. Ryan Knese founded the firm in October 2025.
Leadership
Ryan Knese — Founder & Managing Director
Ryan Knese is the Founder and Managing Director of Renew/Well Advisory Group, an independent advisory firm serving municipalities, energy companies, and infrastructure partners across the south-central United States. With a background spanning infrastructure advisory, commercial development, and energy market strategy, Ryan founded Renew/Well to provide the kind of objective, unconflicted counsel that complex infrastructure and commercial decisions require.
Before founding Renew/Well, Ryan built his professional foundation across three distinct areas. He worked in private equity and investment analysis focused on the energy transition — developing financial models, conducting due diligence, and evaluating deal opportunities across a rapidly evolving sector. In parallel, he spent time in applied technical research, contributing to the development of an ammonia-based LDAR camera by evaluating detection thresholds, sensitivity limits, and field performance under real operating conditions. That kind of hands-on, field-level work gave him a perspective on energy infrastructure that desk-bound analysis rarely provides. He also built direct experience in business development and outbound commercial execution — executing pipeline development, partner outreach, and association engagement across technology and environmental services sectors.
Those three threads of experience — financial analysis, applied technical research, and commercial execution — form the foundation of Renew/Well's advisory approach. The combination allows the firm to operate credibly across practice areas that differ in sector but share a common requirement: the ability to assess situations independently, communicate findings clearly, and support clients in acting on them.
"The opportunity isn't just new technology — it's making existing solutions work together more effectively, reducing friction across detection, data, and operations to drive real outcomes."
Joseph Dyson, MID — Principal Advisor, Industrial & Energy Markets
Joseph Dyson brings more than 25 years of leadership experience across industrial distribution, manufacturing, energy, mining, and global supply chains. His career spans multinational corporations, entrepreneurial ventures, and growth-oriented businesses operating throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
As Founder and President of OrChem Resources LLC, Joseph built and led a global specialty chemicals company serving the mining, petrochemical, and industrial sectors. He directed international sourcing initiatives, private-label manufacturing programs, commercial growth strategies, and relationships with financial and strategic stakeholders evaluating expansion and acquisition opportunities.
Joseph has also held senior commercial leadership positions with Burckhardt Compression and Dover Precision Components, where he supported market development, strategic account management, product commercialization, and business growth initiatives across industrial and energy markets. Throughout his career, he has managed commercial portfolios and P&L responsibilities across large-scale organizations while developing scalable sales and operational teams.
Joseph holds a Master of Industrial Distribution from Texas A&M University and has completed executive studies in Sustainability Strategies through the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Firm Philosophy
Structural Independence in Advisory Engagements
Advisory relationships in the energy and infrastructure sectors frequently involve prior or concurrent affiliations with utilities, vendors, investors, or regulators. Those affiliations, even when disclosed, can constrain the scope and candor of advisory findings.
Renew/Well is structured to avoid these conflicts by design. In each practice area, the firm does not maintain concurrent commercial relationships with parties whose interests are adverse to the client's — utilities in municipal engagements, competing vendors in market development assignments, or competing investors in infrastructure transactions. That structure is not a positioning statement; it is an operational requirement for the type of advisory work we do.
"We tell you what the data shows, what the market will support, and what the infrastructure actually looks like. Not what you want to hear — what you need to know."
Where We Operate
Sectors & Geographies
Technology-Enabled Advisory
Renew/Well uses purpose-built operational intelligence tools to organize findings, track priorities, support monitoring, and improve executive visibility. Technology supports the advisory work — the judgment, verification, and accountability remain with our advisors.
Start With a Conversation.
Whether you're a city manager, a company entering a new market, or a potential commercial partner — the first step is a structured discovery conversation, at no cost or obligation.