Category: Million Minds

4 minutes with…Chad Joshi, CEO, Altranex Corporation

4 minutes with…Chad Joshi, CEO, Altranex Corporation

November 12, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. Altranex is a developer and marketer of bio-based chemicals including high-quality renewable lubricating base oil, marine fuels, and chemicals for the polymers/plastics industry. Our base oil have higher viscosity index and purity than oils on the market today thereby improving fuel economy in […]

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4 minutes with…Mark Beemer, CEO, Aventine Renewable Energy

4 minutes with…Mark Beemer, CEO, Aventine Renewable Energy

November 11, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. Aventine is a $1 billion corn processing company using three different technologies of both corn wet milling and corn dry milling to produce over 320 million gallons of ethanol, yeast, Dried distillers grain, corn gluten feed, corn gluten germ, corn oil, and captured […]

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4 minutes with…Corinne Young, Chief Advocate, re:chem

4 minutes with…Corinne Young, Chief Advocate, re:chem

November 9, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. Launched in 2013 by an elite group of global leaders, re:chemTM was born out of necessity to spearhead US policy for rapid deployment of the renewable chemical industry and resultant cross sector manufacturing growth. Re:chem has emerged as the go-to sector voice (distinct, […]

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4 minutes with…Robert Fanick, Manager, Southwest Research Institute

4 minutes with…Robert Fanick, Manager, Southwest Research Institute

November 6, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. SwRI offers alternative fuels capabilities in a comprehensive approach to resolve technical challenges. The center assists clients in exploring, developing and evaluating current and assists clients in exploring, developing and evaluating current and future alternative fuels from source, through production, to real-world use. […]

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4 minutes with…Mike Hart, CEO, Sierra Energy

4 minutes with…Mike Hart, CEO, Sierra Energy

November 5, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. Sierra Energy has created the world’s most efficient gasifier. FastOx developed in conjunction with UC Davis, US Army and California Energy Commission. Gasification is the missing link between complex feedstocks and a clean synthesis gas for use in a wide variety of biofuel […]

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4 minutes with…Wes Bolsen, Cool Planet, Strategic Partnerships

4 minutes with…Wes Bolsen, Cool Planet, Strategic Partnerships

November 4, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. Cool Planet produces high-octane, aromatic fuel blendstocks for gasoline, jet, and diesel, as well as CoolTerra enhanced biochar for use in agriculture and water applications. The technology has the capability of producing carbon negative fuel from the company’s distributed plant model that places […]

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4 minutes with… Lars Welin, CEO, Taurus Energy

4 minutes with… Lars Welin, CEO, Taurus Energy

November 3, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the advanced bioeconomy. Taurus Energy is a company working to develop the best posibble yeast for fermentation of c5 sugars it is a research company and owns a number of patents around the subject we are working mainly in the USA, Europe, Brazil and India Tell us about […]

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4 Minutes With…Susan Pond, Program Leader, Alternative Transport Fuels Initiative, University of Sydney

4 Minutes With…Susan Pond, Program Leader, Alternative Transport Fuels Initiative, University of Sydney

November 2, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. The USSC is an independent, bipartisan organization with the core goal of increasing understanding of the US Australia relationship in the Asia Pacific. It drives public policy debate across a wide range of issues including trade and investment, innovation, defence and security, energy […]

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4 Minutes With…Ashok Mathur, Director Corporate Commercialization, Matheson

4 Minutes With…Ashok Mathur, Director Corporate Commercialization, Matheson

October 30, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Industrial gas company with strong interest in supporting and investing in bio-based emerging companies in industrial commercialization. Very interested in processes that use oxygen, hydrogen, CO2 and other industrial gases as process feed or to enhance productivity. Gas technology core competencies and R&D […]

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4 Minutes With…Scott Chabina, Director, Carl Marks Advisory Group

4 Minutes With…Scott Chabina, Director, Carl Marks Advisory Group

October 29, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. We have extensive experience in the Advanced Bioeconomy, notably having completed more transactions in the domestic ethanol industry than any other financial advisor in recent history. Carl Marks has successfully represented clients across the capital structure in properly evaluating the myriad of strategic […]

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