Category: Million Minds

4 minutes with… Warren Nevad, Director, TREEDC

4 minutes with… Warren Nevad, Director, TREEDC

April 1, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. TREEDC is a statewide grassroots organization of 96 Tennessee mayors who work together to create a path to help fast track renewables in Tennessee since 2008. We are now replicating our approach with universities and cities in the Philippines through our Tennessee technology […]

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4 minutes with… Ulla Pettersson, Director, e for energy Management Consulting

4 minutes with… Ulla Pettersson, Director, e for energy Management Consulting

March 31, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. My company is a Management Consulting Company focusing on the energy markets. It was when we did a multi-client study about biomass: “What would happen if “everyone” would agree upon the same ambitions for climate matters as Europe has?” that I started to […]

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4 minutes with… Bill Topp, Manager, Biotechnology Associates

4 minutes with… Bill Topp, Manager, Biotechnology Associates

March 30, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. We provide due diligence analyses to the venture capital community of investment opportunities in firms that exploit advanced technologies Tell us about your role and what you are focused on in the next 12 months. Most of our work at the present time is coming out […]

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4 minutes with… Kristina Osterman, Consultant, Nickel Institute

4 minutes with… Kristina Osterman, Consultant, Nickel Institute

March 26, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. We are an international non-profit industry association with key focus on the development of responsible and sustainable use of stainless steel and other nickel-containing materials. We are here to support the developing bio-based chemicals industry with NEUTRAL and COMPLIMENTARY TECHNICAL ADVICE regarding the […]

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4 minutes with… Mike Glatz, VP Sales & Business Development, Optimus Technologies

4 minutes with… Mike Glatz, VP Sales & Business Development, Optimus Technologies

March 25, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Optimus Technologies manufactures the first and only EPA-approved biofuel conversion systems for medium- and heavy-duty diesel trucks. Its fuel partners supply B100/B99 and Optimus-grade biofuel to fleets nationwide. Optimus has a simple, bolt-on approach that provides fleets the easiest way to reduce fuel […]

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4 minutes with… Ezekiel Oyediji, Managing Director/CEO, Elzek Multilink Services & Investment

4 minutes with… Ezekiel Oyediji, Managing Director/CEO, Elzek Multilink Services & Investment

March 24, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Elzek Multilink Services & Investment[E M S I]LTD.is a private limited liability company duly registered in Nigeria.This is a small company that is aspiring to grow big with the co-operation of a Technical Partner to go into ethanol production as Biofuel by taking […]

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4 minutes with… Keith Brazzell, Chief Operating Officer, Genera Energy

4 minutes with… Keith Brazzell, Chief Operating Officer, Genera Energy

March 23, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Genera Energy Inc. supplies biomass feedstocks for the advanced bio-based industries, offering industrial scale agriculture biomass ranging from full service energy crop production to customizable supply chain solutions and managing biomass supply. Leaders looking for cellulose feedstock often first consult with Genera. We […]

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4 Minutes With…Christophe Schilling, CEO, Genomatica

4 Minutes With…Christophe Schilling, CEO, Genomatica

March 22, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and its role in the Advanced Bioeconomy.  Genomatica helps the mainstream chemical industry harness biotechnology to make major chemicals a better way, with better economics and greater sustainability. We develop and license process technologies that give producers optionality via alternative feedstocks; and enable users of chemicals to offer differentiated, more […]

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4 minutes with… Douglas O. Cochran, Manager, Rail Projects Creative Rail Solutions

4 minutes with… Douglas O. Cochran, Manager, Rail Projects Creative Rail Solutions

March 19, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Creative Rail Solutions, LLC helps clients who want to secure the efficiency, economy, and environmental friendliness of rail transportation. In addition to helping our clients with the planning, design, bid and construction phases of new facilities, we also conduct condition assessments and maintenance […]

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4 minutes with… Rafael Llano Ferro, Manager, ENTERESA

4 minutes with… Rafael Llano Ferro, Manager, ENTERESA

March 18, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. We manufacture small scale raw sugar plants and small distillation plants with small sugar cane crushers, small sugar cane steam boilers and distillations towers or multiple effect evaporators. Similar as big sugar cane mills and ethanol plants, but at small scale. We will like small […]

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