Last voting day for "Top 100 People in Bioenergy"

One day left in voting. Who’s hot, who’s not?

There’s one day left in subscriber voting for the 100 Top People in Bioenergy. Traditionally, we get a big rush of ballots on the final day, plus we have the votes to consider from the Digest editorial board.

But who’s leading, who’s on the bubble right now? We look at some of the leading vote-getters in the poll, among government/trade association leaders, company executives, scientists and investors, plus leaders right on the edge of making the ballot, and some surprises among a lost of those generally overlooked in the voting so far.

Voting will close today, December 23rd, 2011 at 5pm ET. The Top 100 People in Bioenergy will be announced on December 26th.

Top 10 by Category (in alphabetical order)

Trade Associations / Government

Steve Chu, Secretary of Energy
Bob Dinneen, Renewable Fuels Association
Brent Erickson, BIO
Ray Mabus, US Secretary of Navy
Mike McAdams, ABFA
Mary Rosenthal, ABO
Jim Stewart, BPA
Chris Tindal, US Navy
Tom Vilsack
Nancy Young, A4A

Company Executives

Michael Arbige, Genencor
Jeff Broin, POET
Pramod Chaudari, Praj
Vincent Chornet, Enerkem
Harrison Dillon / Jonathan Wolfson, Solazyme
Pat Gruber, Gevo
Jennifer Holmgren / Sean Simpson LanzaTech
John Melo / Neal Renninger Amyris
Steen Riisgaard, Novozymes
Alan Shaw, Codexis

Investors / Financial Professionals

Dan Adler, California Clean Energy Fund
David Berry, Flagship
Doug Cameron
John Doer, Kleiner
Samir Kaul, Khosla
Vinod Khosla
Bill Lese, Braemar
Jim Matheson, Flagship
Jim Sayre, Cargill
Jim Woolsey, Vantage

Scientists

Robert Brown, ISU
Bruce Dale MSU
Jim Dumesic, Wisconsin
Tom Foust, NREL
Lonnie Ingram Florida
Jay Keasling, JBEI
Lee Lynd Dartmouth
Steve Mayfield, UCSD
Phil Pinekos NREL
Chris Somerville, EBI

Close to the Top 10

Dilma Rousseff, Brazil
Brain Bilbray, Jay Inslee, US Congress
Lee Edwards, Virent
Richard Hamilton, Ceres
Jim Imbler, ZeaChem
Phil New, BP Biofuels
Jason Pyle/CJ Warner, Sapphire Energy
Jim Rekoske, Honeywell’s UOP
Christophe Schilling, Genomatica
Paul Woods, Algenol