Category: Million Minds

4 minutes with…Sandra Dunphy, Director, Energy Compliance Services, Weaver and Tidwell

4 minutes with…Sandra Dunphy, Director, Energy Compliance Services, Weaver and Tidwell

December 9, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. Weaver is a full-service accounting firm with a niche practice focused on federal and state fuel regulations. We currently work with ~250 participants in the RFS program including producers, importers, exporters, blenders and retailers. Tell us about your role and what you are […]

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4 minutes with…Larry Sullivan, Consultant, Lawrence D. Sullivan & Company

4 minutes with…Larry Sullivan, Consultant, Lawrence D. Sullivan & Company

December 8, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. My consulting features work with investment firms on due diligence for biomass, biofuels and biochemical projects. Also, I advise investors on technology platforms regarding expected investment potentials in oil, gas, petrochemicals and petroleum refining. Tell us about your role and what you are […]

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4 minutes with…Tim Sklar, President, Sklar & Associates

4 minutes with…Tim Sklar, President, Sklar & Associates

December 7, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. Sklar & Associates is a South Carolina based consulting firm now specializing in Biofuels project development. He is an expert in project finance and conducts extensive due diligence investigations, viability assessments, and prepares business plans Tell us about your role and what you […]

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4 minutes with…Jeff Lievense, EVP Process Technology, Genomatica

4 minutes with…Jeff Lievense, EVP Process Technology, Genomatica

December 4, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. Genomatica helps the global 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 we enable users of chemicals to offer differentiated, […]

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4 minutes with…Peter Keeling, Innovation and Industry Collaboration Director, Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (Iowa State)

4 minutes with…Peter Keeling, Innovation and Industry Collaboration Director, Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (Iowa State)

December 3, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. CBiRC was founded in 2008 with funding from NSF, creating an Engineering Research Center focused on advanced manufacturing for sustainable biobased chemicals. The R&D program creates a multi-year, interdisciplinary, multi-institutional center that joins academia, industry and government in partnership to produce transformational engineered […]

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4 minutes with…Basil Karampelas, President, American Process

4 minutes with…Basil Karampelas, President, American Process

December 2, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. We’ve developed 2 proprietary biorefinery technologies producing low-cost cellulosic sugars from non-food based biomass. Our Green Power+ technology produces low-cost cellulosic sugars from the hemicelluloses. AVAP technology produces cellulosic sugars from cellulose and hemicelluloses. Our GP+ demo is in Alpena, MI; our AVAP […]

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4 minutes with…Rebecca Boudreaux, President, Oberon Fuels

4 minutes with…Rebecca Boudreaux, President, Oberon Fuels

December 1, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. Oberon Fuels is launching DME (dimethyl ether) in North America as a clean-burning, alternative to diesel. Using various, domestic feedstocks such as food and green waste and natural gas, Oberon has developed a modular, small-scale process that cost-effectively converts a variety of methane […]

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4 minutes with…Gert Caspritz, CEO, Rho Renewables

4 minutes with…Gert Caspritz, CEO, Rho Renewables

November 30, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. Rho’s R&D efforts are directed towards the generation of genetically modified yeast capable of making various high value aromatic specialty chemicals, the high energy/high octane biofuel Rhoctane(TM), styrene and selected flavors and fragrances. Rho has a strategic partnership and is self financed as […]

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4 minutes with…Cindy Thyfault, CEO, Westar Trade Resources

4 minutes with…Cindy Thyfault, CEO, Westar Trade Resources

November 27, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. Westar is an international boutique consulting firm that has assisted companies in obtaining over $1.1 billion in grants and guaranteed loan funding from the USDA, DOE, DOD, SBA, and ECAs as well as private funding programs. We specialize in assisting companies with new […]

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4 minutes with…Lynn L. Bergeson, Managing Partner, Bergeson & Campbell

4 minutes with…Lynn L. Bergeson, Managing Partner, Bergeson & Campbell

November 26, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. focuses on chemical product regulation, including renewable and biobased products regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), emerging chemical product technologies (bio, nano, and synthetic biology), and related international chemical regulatory programs. Tell us about your role and […]

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