May 20, 2014, 10:51am EDT<br />Princeton Review exec joins Harvest Power as its new CFO<br /><br />Waltham-based Harvest Power, a developer of organics-to-energy plants and compost production facilities in North America, has named a new chief financial officer: Christian G. Kasper, who held the same position at test preparation company The Princeton Review since 2010.<br /><br />Kasper, 43, began his career with the Boston Consulting Group and has served as CFO for companies that included SyraTech Corp. and CompassLearning Inc., where he partnered with leading private equity and venture capital firms including Bain Capital Ventures, Thomas H. Lee Partners and Aurora Capital Group.<br /><br />Earlier this year, Harvest Power announced that it would get a new CEO: Kathleen Lygocki, an operating partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Ligocki replaced Paul Sellew, a repeat entrepreneur who co-founded Harvest Power in 2008.<br /><br />Menlo Park, Calif.-based Kleiner Perkins is among the investors in Harvest Power, which has raised roughly $200 million in equity financing to date.<br /><br />Harvest Power, which has 600 employees including 33 at the Waltham headquarters, operates facilities that process organic materials such as food scraps and yard waste and convert it into compost-based soil mulch or fertilizer. Harvest also operates power plants that use those organic materials as a feedstock for its anaerobic digestion technology to produce electricity. The company saw $130 million in revenue in 2013, Ligocki told VentureWire.<br />