Category: Million Minds

4 minutes with… Gary Weihs, Managing Director, Kincannon & Reed, Executive Recruiting

4 minutes with… Gary Weihs, Managing Director, Kincannon & Reed, Executive Recruiting

March 3, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. We recruit leaders for organizations that feed our world and keep it healthy. We are thrilled to work exclusively in the bioeconomy/lifesciences value chain. For 33 years, organizations around the globe have trusted us, former industry executives, to deliver superior executives that help […]

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4 minutes with… Orion Lekos PhD, Director of Research, Whole Energy

4 minutes with… Orion Lekos PhD, Director of Research, Whole Energy

March 2, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Whole Energy focuses on three areas… 1. Marketing Biofuels such as biodiesel, bio-methane, ethanol and renewable diesel; 2. Engineering services such as credit registration and process engineering; and 3. Refining glycerin to a commodity grade product and converting it to specialty chemicals. Tell […]

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4 Minutes with… Gregory T. Benz, President, Benz Technology International

4 Minutes with… Gregory T. Benz, President, Benz Technology International

March 1, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy.   Provides consulting services in the field of fluid agitation. Such work has enables successful, economical and scalable mixing equipment designs for cellulose hydrolysis reactors, for example. Also source economical major process equipment from developing countries, and aid in licensing in China. Tell […]

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4 minutes with… Rod Cummings, President, EUDORA Biomaterial Consulting

4 minutes with… Rod Cummings, President, EUDORA Biomaterial Consulting

February 26, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. New Business Development and Management including strategic opportunity assessment, product concept definition, market research; competitive landscape evaluation; economic model, Partnership collaboration and alliance development, licensing strategies and implementation; markets and technologies scouting. Tell us about your role and what you are focused on […]

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4 minutes with… Al Kaczanowski, VP Marketing and New Product Development, EP Minerals

4 minutes with… Al Kaczanowski, VP Marketing and New Product Development, EP Minerals

February 25, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. EP Minerals is a worldwide leader in diatomaceous earth (DE), clay and perlite. These unique industrial minerals are used as filter aids, absorbents and functional additives for a variety of industries including biofuels and biochemicals. We remove contaminants from feed stocks and we […]

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4 minutes with… Sam A. Rushing, President of Advanced Cryogenics

4 minutes with… Sam A. Rushing, President of Advanced Cryogenics

February 24, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. The company has supported the development and/or reevaluation of subjects for many or today’s CO2 plants from biofuels; with work supporting one of the first cellulosic ethanol ventures as well. The work covers subjects from technical, through market and industry intelligence; to applications, […]

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4 minutes with… Stephen Gerritson, Vice President EDC of Seattle & King County and Chairman, CleanTech Alliance – Washington

4 minutes with… Stephen Gerritson, Vice President EDC of Seattle & King County and Chairman, CleanTech Alliance – Washington

February 23, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. The EDC’s role is to create jobs and advance the economy in King County. One sector we focus on is Clean Energy and Technology, which includes clean fuels. We provide technical and organizational assistance to companies in this sector at no charge. Tell […]

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4 minutes with…Steve Davey, Vice President Bio-based Products & Services USA, DSM

4 minutes with…Steve Davey, Vice President Bio-based Products & Services USA, DSM

February 22, 2015 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. DSM combines life sciences and materials sciences disciplines, technologies and talents in a unique way to create innovative and sustainable solutions that address the key challenges facing society today. We’re committed to creating products and solutions that make a positive difference in people’s […]

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4 minutes with… Fernando Perez Guerrero, President, Alder Alimentos y Derivados SA de CV

4 minutes with… Fernando Perez Guerrero, President, Alder Alimentos y Derivados SA de CV

February 19, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. AT PRESENT WE ARE TRYING TO DEVELOP PROGRAMMS RELATED TO NEW TECHNOLOGY TO PRODUCE ELECTRICAL POWER AND BIOFUELS, USING CELLULOSE FEEDSTOCK TO REDUCE PRODUCTION COST Tell us about your role and what you are focused on in the next 12 months. WE HAVE […]

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4 minutes with… Bongani Cibi, Chairman & CEO, Lotavha renewable energy consulting & engineers cc

4 minutes with… Bongani Cibi, Chairman & CEO, Lotavha renewable energy consulting & engineers cc

February 18, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Lotavha’s main activities are Biomass and Solar products. On Biomass our focus Is on Bio coal using Torrefaction to produce the Bio coal and also focussing on Biodiesel production but will be using UCO to produce Bidiesel we still waiting for the license […]

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