4 Minutes With…Tim Brummels, CEO, Canergy

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy.

Canergy is a Biotechnology company committed to a clean, healthy environment through the efficient use of innovative conversion technology with a sustainable non-food energy crop. Canergy, through its partnerships, is currently developing commercial cellulosic ultra-low carbon biofuel projects.

Tell us about your role and what you are focused on in the next 12 months.

As the CEO, my current focus is on completing the financing of our first project and to see the start of construction begin in the next 6 months, while continuing the development of our’s and our technology partners IP.

What do you feel are the most important milestones the industry must achieve in the next 5 years?

For Cellulosic biofuels and biochemical platforms to continue to grow out both domestically and internationally.

If you could snap your fingers and change one thing about the Advanced Bioeconomy, what would you change?

The opportunity to change the political environment having politicians care more about the health of our nations future economic and environment needs for future generations verses personal short minded election agenda’s and special interest groups platforms for profits.

Of all the reasons that influenced you to join the Advanced Bioeconomy industry, what single reason stands out for you as still being compelling and important to you?

The opportunities to have clean energy and natural biochemical products which do not harm individual health or the environment

Where are you from? 

Born, Colorado Springs, Colorado.Spent early childhood Cocoa Beach Florida, father worked for NASA Spent Jr & High School years in Santa Barbara, CA

What was your undergraduate major in college, and where did you attend? Why did you choose that school and that pathway? 

University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Major’s in Finance & Economics. The school was a influence by my father, and the studies was a result of observations the acquisition of a my fathers computer company by a Fortune 500 company during my first couple years of studies.

Who do you consider your mentors. What have you learned from them?

My Father, Canergy’s Chairman of the Board, – a successful entrepreneurial of multiple companies and my best friend.
My partners in Canergy, Lance Reeves, who motivates me to be impeccable to business ethics in all we do.
Dr. Richard Bransford – A highly skilled surgeon who gave up a life of wealth to work with handicapped children in Kenya Africa as a Doctor missionary.
Paris Reidhead – A Christian Missionary teacher and advocate of economic development in impoverished nations, specifically Afghanistan who was assisting locals in the development of farming skills and use of solar ovens.

What’s the biggest lesson you ever learned during a period of adversity?

Your reaction to adversity will define you as a person, you can choose to learn from it to move forward with freedom or to be consumed with it and cause your life to in around you and sour you!

What hobbies do you pursue, away from your work in the industry? 

Golf
Photography
Walking / Hiking

What 3 books would you take to read, if stranded on a desert island?

The Bible
Hymn Book
How then should we Live – Francis Shaeffer

What books or articles are on your reading list right now, or you just completed and really enjoyed?

Carbon Rush – Author Graham Noyes

What’s your favorite city or place to visit, for a holiday?

Caribbean Ocean Front Resort