Buffalo Biodiesel names Peter Grisanti CFO to support rapid growth

Buffalo Biodiesel on June 16 named Peter Grisanti, CPA, MBA, chief financial officer as the company backs a $300 million growth push and wider feedstock scaling. The hire sharpens the finance bench at a used-cooking-oil recycler that says it is moving from collection and processing into a larger renewable-feedstock platform.

The Buffalo, New York-based company said it was founded in 2005 and operates a Tonawanda facility that processes used cooking oil into feedstock for biofuel. Its map shows operating reach across 15 states in the Northeast and Midwest, while its website says it works with more than 27,000 businesses, has recycled more than 79 million gallons of used oil and has cut more than 3.2 billion pounds of CO2.

The CFO appointment comes alongside a broader management reset. Buffalo Biodiesel’s current-news page shows Frank V. Balon was named president and chief legal officer on June 9, 2026. The company has also highlighted a $300 million growth partnership with Verite Capital Partners, a signal that the business is assembling the legal, financial and operational structure needed for a larger industrial footprint.

That footprint still depends on the Tonawanda site and the company’s collection network, which has been central to Buffalo Biodiesel’s pitch as a vertically integrated recycler and renewable-feedstock supplier. The company has recently said it resolved permitting matters with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and is pursuing facility upgrades and compliance improvements, work that tends to matter when a feedstock business is trying to move more gallons through a regulated processing base.

Grisanti’s addition suggests Buffalo Biodiesel is preparing for a more disciplined phase of growth, with tighter control over capital allocation, project financing and operational scaling. In a sector where used cooking oil, soybean oil, tallow and other low-carbon feedstocks are increasingly contested, the companies that can collect, process and finance volume at scale are the ones most likely to widen their margin base. Buffalo Biodiesel is now signaling that it wants to be one of them.