Otoka’s seasoned management team consists of proven professionals who have successfully built, commercialized, and monetized large-scale, profitable enterprises including the largest, most efficient ethanol producer in the world, among other agribusinesses.

Robert L. Broin – Chairman & Chief Technology Officer
Rob has over 20 years experience in the biomass-to-energy industry. In 1987, Mr. Broin co-founded POET Energy (formerly Broin Companies), where he served as Chief Technology Officer until his departure in 2007. POET Energy started as a single family-owned plant and, during Rob’s tenure, grew to be the largest, most efficient dry mill ethanol producer in the world producing more than 1.6 billion gallons of ethanol per year. Rob led the development, design and construction of 25 ethanol plants, and lead operations for 19 of them. Each of Rob’s projects were completed on time, on budget and became successful, economic plants. Rob conceived, pioneered and managed the early implementation of many of the processing and plant design improvements that lead the standard in today’s dry mill ethanol industry. Rob has a degree in Diversified Agricultural Science from the University of Minnesota and is a Partner of Eden River, LLC, a company focused on acquisitions and private investments.


Michael J. Muston – President, Chief Executive Officer & Director
Mike has over 25 years of executive and management experience managing companies and large divisions of companies in the agricultural, energy and biotech industries. From 2006 to 2007, Mike was an Executive Vice President and Board Member for POET Energy. In this capacity, Mike was responsible for negotiating strategic agreements and successfully obtained $100 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Energy and the State of Iowa. Prior to joining POET, Mike held the positions of Executive Vice President and Management Board Member of Advanta, an international seed supplier with $500 million in revenues and President of Mycogen Seeds, the sixth largest seed company in North America. He left Mycogen after successfully completing a $1.2 billion sale of the company to Dow AgroSciences, where after the acquisition, he was General Manager of the Western U.S. and also served as Global Business Operations Manager. Mike received a B.S. in Commercial Economics and Agricultural Business from South Dakota State University. Mike is a Partner of Eden River, LLC a company focused on acquisitions and private investments.

Dodi D. Matti - Director of Finance
As Director of Finance, Dodi is responsible for Otoka’s initiatives related to the treasury function including corporate investment, cash management, financing, as well as accounting, economic incentives, carbon management, human resources, and IT. From 2006 to 2008, Dodi was senior finance manager for U.S. BioEnergy, a major ethanol producer, where she focused on providing financial perspective and analysis on a $750 million revenue business. In her tenure with U.S. BioEnergy, Dodi developed the treasury function within the organization and was responsible to the CFO and Treasurer for the cash management, investment portfolio, project finance, corporate financing, economic incentives, and management of bank relationships. From 1999-2006, Dodi held various finance and accounting roles with Honeywell, Inc. and the accounting firm of McGladrey & Pullen. Dodi holds an MBA with an emphasis in finance from the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management, a BS in accounting from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and is Six Sigma Certified.