Category: Million Minds

4 Minutes With…Mark Fisler, Managing Director, Ocean Park Advisors

4 Minutes With…Mark Fisler, Managing Director, Ocean Park Advisors

September 2, 2014 |

Today, Mark Fisler is helping companies to get affordable financing at Ocean Park Advisors — just a few years back, he was going through the highs and lows of the ethanol boom in a more direct sense as the President of Global Ethanol, which he joined after spending 20 years in the finance sector with […]

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4 Minutes With…Kyle Teamey, CEO, Liquid Light

4 Minutes With…Kyle Teamey, CEO, Liquid Light

September 1, 2014 |

Elsewhere in the Digest this morning we make reference to the technologies and markets being explored by Liquid Light — specifically the opportunity to make a molecule with a powerful market such as mono ethylene glycol (MEG) out of waste CO2. Leading the company is Kyle Teamey, who left behind a military career (including a tour of […]

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4 Minutes With… Eric McAfee, Chairman & CEO, Aemetis

4 Minutes With… Eric McAfee, Chairman & CEO, Aemetis

August 31, 2014 |

Best known as one of the founders of Pacific Ethanol and later the founder of Aemetis — less known for his family’s farms and its Organic Pastures businesses — and as a  mentor to countless young entrepreneurs. Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Aemetis owns and operates 110 million gallons per year […]

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4 Minutes With…Brent Erickson, Executive Vice President, Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)

4 Minutes With…Brent Erickson, Executive Vice President, Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)

August 28, 2014 |

Best known as the czar of all things industrial biotech at BIO — less known as a former aide to Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, and as a distinguished artist. Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. BIO is the world’s largest trade association representing biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology […]

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4 Minutes with…Todd Taylor, Fredrikson & Byron; board member, ABO

4 Minutes with…Todd Taylor, Fredrikson & Byron; board member, ABO

August 28, 2014 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. We help bioeconomy companies get it done. From setting up their company, raising money, protecting IP, building a plant, strategic partnerships, IPO and M&A’s, if a bioeconomy company has a legal need, we can help. Tell us about your role and what you […]

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4 Minutes With…John Kirkwood, Partner, Kreig Devault

4 Minutes With…John Kirkwood, Partner, Kreig Devault

August 26, 2014 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Krieg Devault became involved in the advanced bioeconomy in the early 2000s when the corn-to-ethanol revolution swept accross the USA. Since then, we have worked on many of the marquee projects in the bio industry including wind, solar, advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals. […]

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4 Minutes with…Marc Verbruggen, CEO, NatureWorks

4 Minutes with…Marc Verbruggen, CEO, NatureWorks

August 25, 2014 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. NatureWorks manufactures Ingeo, a bio-plastic (PLA) made from plants, in a large plant in Nebraska.  We sell Ingeo worldwide in a large variety of applications based on the 3P-value principle: Performance + Price competitive + Preference (carbon reduction or safety/health concerns). Tell us […]

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