Category: Million Minds

4 Minutes with…Jim Colthart, Chairman & COO, EnerSysNet Canada

4 Minutes with…Jim Colthart, Chairman & COO, EnerSysNet Canada

February 13, 2018 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. We will “take the factory to the forest” to transform woody biomass from harvest and mill waste into renewable liquid hydrocarbons by integrating proven technologies in the field, and deliver these to refineries to yield gasoline, diesel and aviation fuels, displacing crude oil […]

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4 Minutes with…Shreya Dave, Co-founder, Via Separations

4 Minutes with…Shreya Dave, Co-founder, Via Separations

February 13, 2018 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Via Separations offers a new platform for membrane filtration for the fractionation, purification, and separation of challenging feed streams. Tell us about your role and what you are focused on in the next 12 months. My role is to identify use cases for […]

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4 Minutes with…Jonathan Cristiani, Bioenergy Engineer, Black & Veatch

4 Minutes with…Jonathan Cristiani, Bioenergy Engineer, Black & Veatch

February 13, 2018 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Black & Veatch has significant experience with all types of biomass, waste to energy, biogas, and biofuels facilities. We have strong capabilities to successfully develop and execute bioenergy projects including resource assessments, conversion technology selection, conceptual engineering, and EPC implementation. Tell us about […]

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4 Minutes with…Timothy Richter, President, MATERA LLC

4 Minutes with…Timothy Richter, President, MATERA LLC

February 13, 2018 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Matera provides comprehensive, strategic guidance for deployment of new and mature technologies for the thermochemical, bioenergy, biomass fractionation, bioproduct, and cellulosic markets. Since 2006, we have relied on our broad experience and proven risk philosophy to successfully manage completion of over $500MM in […]

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4 Minutes with…Scott Chabina, Director – Marathon Capital, LLC

4 Minutes with…Scott Chabina, Director – Marathon Capital, LLC

February 13, 2018 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Marathon Capital is the leading financial advisor to the bioeconomy (ethanol, biodiesel, renewable diesel, 2G, etc), having advised clients across the capital structure on complex M&A, capital raising and restructuring assignments. Marathon’s engagements in ethanol alone represent in excess of 4.0 billion gallons […]

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4 Minutes with…James Iademarco, President, Strategic Avalanche Consulting

4 Minutes with…James Iademarco, President, Strategic Avalanche Consulting

February 13, 2018 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Strategic Avalanche is a global consulting firm delivering powerful ideas with impact. We work with emerging and large Ag and industrial biotech players assisting with strategy, innovation, market intelligence and collaborations. I partner with Context Network who has 12 principals and 85+ consultants […]

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4 Minutes with…Scott Warfield, Senior Consultant, CERES Project Services an affiliate of Lee Enterprises

4 Minutes with…Scott Warfield, Senior Consultant, CERES Project Services an affiliate of Lee Enterprises

February 13, 2018 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. CERES has 3 partners and 3 consulting members focused exclusively in renewable and bio-economy, each with experience in all projects phases from concept development to operations. We understand the need for completing projects safely, on time, in budget, maintaining quality for long term […]

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4 Minutes with…John Forcier, President, Forcier Consulting Engineers (LEC Member)

4 Minutes with…John Forcier, President, Forcier Consulting Engineers (LEC Member)

February 13, 2018 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. In the past several years, we have been specializing in anaerobic digestion, renewable energy, biogas, organics to energy and waste to energy. We have been involved in studies, designs and construction of over 40 related projects throughout eastern USA. These projects range from […]

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4 Minutes with…Bryan Tracy, CEO of White Dog Labs

4 Minutes with…Bryan Tracy, CEO of White Dog Labs

February 13, 2018 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. White Dog Labs is a biotechnology company founded upon biological diversity, synthetic biology and bio-process development. Using proprietary approaches, we develop market solutions to global challenges by harnessing Clostridia. These unique organisms are being applied to address food sustainability, animal and human health, […]

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4 Minutes with…Sheeja George, Project Manager-Southeast Partnership for Advanced Renewables from Carinata, University of Florida

4 Minutes with…Sheeja George, Project Manager-Southeast Partnership for Advanced Renewables from Carinata, University of Florida

February 13, 2018 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. University of Florida-North Florida Research and Education Center has worked extensively with industrial oilseeds and now focusing on Brassica carinata for aviation fuels, coproducts and value added protein including animal feed. Through state and federal grants we aim to establish a sustainable supply […]

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