Category: Million Minds

4 Minutes with…Veronica May, GM, UOP’s Renewable Energy & Chemicals

4 Minutes with…Veronica May, GM, UOP’s Renewable Energy & Chemicals

June 14, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and its role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. More than 100 years ago, UOP started developing and licensing technology for the refining industry, and the company has since invented solutions for the petrochemical, gas processing and renewable fuel industries. Our groundbreaking renewable fuel technologies produce drop-in diesel, jet fuel and liquid […]

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4 minutes with.. George Poch, President, Hiawatha Valley Resource Conservation and Development Council

4 minutes with.. George Poch, President, Hiawatha Valley Resource Conservation and Development Council

June 11, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Helping in the process of finding underutilized bio-mass materials Tell us about your role and what you are focused on in the next 12 months. Our Annual plan does consider bio-mass material as one of its elements. Most of this bio mass is […]

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4 minutes with… Thomas D. Foust, Director, Bioenergy, Biofuels and Bioproducts Research Center, NREL

4 minutes with… Thomas D. Foust, Director, Bioenergy, Biofuels and Bioproducts Research Center, NREL

June 10, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. The predominate mission of the Bioenergy, Biofuels and Bioproducts Research Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is to develop the underlying science and technology plus supporting economic and environmental analysis to enable the Advanced Bioeconomy. Tell us about your role and […]

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4 minutes with… Gerald Kutney, Ph.D. Managing Director, Sixth Element Sustainable Management

4 minutes with… Gerald Kutney, Ph.D. Managing Director, Sixth Element Sustainable Management

June 9, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Sixth Element is a consulting firm specializing in commercializing innovation, and evaluating the business preparedness and commercial potential of technology developers and their projects. We provide executive management services for inventors, entrepreneurs, investors, and public sector agencies in new technology and early-stage ventures. […]

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4 minutes with… Wayne Lee, CEO, Lee Enterprises Consulting

4 minutes with… Wayne Lee, CEO, Lee Enterprises Consulting

June 8, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Lee Enterprises Consulting is the world’s largest alternative and renewable fuels consulting group. We have an in-depth expertise in biodiesel, ethanol, solar, wind, and emerging technologies. We also maintain strategic relationships with the industries’ top legal, accounting and engineering groups, and technology/fabricatication providers. […]

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4 Minutes with… Douglas L. Faulkner, President, Leatherstocking LLC; Co-Founder, Jacob’s Ladder Energy Group

4 Minutes with… Douglas L. Faulkner, President, Leatherstocking LLC; Co-Founder, Jacob’s Ladder Energy Group

June 6, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy.   Leatherstocking helps build private-public bioenergy partnerships. It offers strategic advice for setting new priorities; targeting new business and research opportunities; designing new curricula; and, finding the best path for government assistance. Tell us about your role and what you are focused on […]

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4 minutes with… Taner Onoglu, Vice President, Altaca Energy

4 minutes with… Taner Onoglu, Vice President, Altaca Energy

June 4, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. “ALTACA Enerji” is the leading technology company of Turkey focused on energy from waste. We currently own and operate the largest integrated biogas and bio-fertilizer plant in the region. We design, build and operate biogas plants for ourselves and for other investors. Tell […]

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4 minutes with… S. Kent Hoekman, Research Professor, Desert Research Institute (DRI)

4 minutes with… S. Kent Hoekman, Research Professor, Desert Research Institute (DRI)

June 3, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. DRI is the environmental research branch of the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE). We are involved in evaluating environmental concerns and consequences of biomass/biofuel systems, from cradle to grave. In addition, we apply analytical capabilities to characterize bio-feedstocks, intermediates, and products. Tell […]

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4 minutes with… Enrique Arrieta-Noguera, CEO, Ambientronika

4 minutes with… Enrique Arrieta-Noguera, CEO, Ambientronika

June 2, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. We are a renewable energy integration firm, and we are working in the project “4T-FF”, 4 trees species for fuel & food, where we will produce 100% biodiesel plus food in the form of forage, milk and meat. Tell us about your role […]

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

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

May 31, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy.   Sklar & Associates (S&A) is a South Carolina based consulting firm specializing in Bio-fuels project development. S&A is expert in biorefinery project finance and conducting extensive due diligence investigations and viability assessments, prepares business plans financing strategies, investors’ memoranda and loan request […]

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