In Florida, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack headed the "Top 100 Inhabitants in Bioenergy" as chosen by the readers of Biofuels Rushed and the Digest's feature stay, individual frame out BP Biofuels front Philip New, and the heads of Raizen, Poet, Solazyme and Amyris. In today's Rushed, we specialism the Irretrievable 25 in opacity.
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76. Neal Gutterson, CEO, Mendel Biotechnologies
Miscanthus has been growing in visibility and reliability all time, repute to BP's durable support of the feedstock, and alike the lobby group of Mendel Biotechnologies towards transport microbe and county show exactly for scale. The long-time front of Mendel, Neal Gutterson, has not been as apparent as a range of on the manual labor conference part such as shepherding his launch towards scale, but picked up a precisely in hold up from the fatherland this time as cellulosic biofuels gets earlier to scale, and feedstocks of appearance self-confidence become high-class and high-class powerful.
77. Sean O'Hanlon, Superintendent Above, American Biofuels Council
As effortlessly as being one of the best-known and dear of the biofuels Twitterati, Sean has been advocating at the grass-roots, and display up-to-the-minute bioenergy conception on a consulting station, for a magnitude of existence. One of the utmost discreet of the "bioneers", and constantly a "most-follow" for community tracking the industry's send. "I can't gamble of persona who taught me high-class something like the potentials and pitfalls in biofuels," says Rushed editor Jim Process.
78. Pramod Chaudhari, Superintendent Chairman, Praj Industries
The #1 add up to in the Indian subcontinent is Praj Industries chairman and backfire Pramod Chaudhari, as a late precisely in voting this time propelled him to marginal Top 100 door. As we wrote stick up time, "Pramodh Chaudhari gives a crystal exhibit suffering of the sugar/molasses troubles India has licensed presently and the two regulatory ladder essential to finish the E20 lead. He alike gives a very thrilling delineation of how Praj solved the ethanol wastewater care, and of the young education, maintenance and outreach programs the launch is government for its own staff, schools and its home city of Pune."
79. Bob Mayer, CEO, Navy Technologies
The new front at Navy is the ancient front of Genencor, lured believe within a CEO role by Cobalt's appearance opportunities to scale, and the mostly embryonic self-confidence of biobutanol. A subtitle in the manual labor, all eyes are on how he will be able to top a superb word as CEO by forerunner Twist Wilson. His trump card? As by a long way charming own as persona in the chicken-and-egg world of scale-up.
80. Kef Kasdin, CEO, Proterro, Mike Hamilton, CEO, Renmatix, Andrew Richard, CEO, Comet Biorefining
This time, we balancing three leaders emerald on sale sugars as feedstock for biofuels and materials. Which will succeed? Renmatix' supercritical process, Proterro's illusion bug making sugars from sunlight, CO2 and courtyard, or Comet's reproduction biology coat to extracting sugars from biomass? Too soon to associate, but the contenders are high-class powerful, high-class organized and high-class terrible than always.
81. Todd Taylor, Companion, Fredrickson & Byron
One of the high-class hip of the biofuels Twitteratri as effortlessly as chairman of the program at next year's Algal Biomass Chief, Todd's mostly viewpoint runs across a gamut of cleantech technologies, but he's outmaneuver convinced in the algae field, everyplace he is an widespread ghost all online and offline, and a go-to source for the article on what's hot, swish and attainment footing.
82. Kelly Controls, CEO, Genera Whoosh
Feedstock providers were swelling across the stay this time - a perennial dear between the fatherland is Genera Whoosh - figuring out the logistics and science of switchgrass at Major. Kelly's been a hip ringleader quantity in Tennessee for rather some face. Coming are drunk for this jeopardy to become a illustrious entertainer for partners such as Dupont Cellulosic Ethanol.
83. Jim Dumesic, PhD, Studious of Wisconsin-Madison
If you've crack by a long way something like Virent Whoosh Systems, the manage sugar-to-diesel technology convinced as bioforming, or the add up to field of the catalytic conversion of feedstocks directlly within hydrocarbon fuels, you've been effortlessly exposed to the work from the Dumesic lab at the Studious of Wisconsin. Jim himself generally makes appearances at specialized conferences and is convinced to cocktail controlled presentations on new science, practically than talented pronouncements on biofuels program. For that basis, it was a acceptable joggle to see the Rushed transmission get downhill Dumesic and crane him to #52 in our choose. Whereas microbial fermentation coat to manage conversion to hydrocarbons get the lion's fate of wheeze, the catalytic coat is attracting serious partners be equal with Cargill Ventures and Honda.
84. Kevin Berner, CEO, Phycal
One of the utmost thrilling embryonic approaches to algal biofuels and materials at scale? Phycal's hybrid draw up plans in which they cultivate "emaciated algae" in ponds, thus fatten them up in directors by feeding them cassava sugar. Phycal plans to labor, permit, form and scuttle a 34-acre advantage farm chummy Poamoho Base camp in Wahiawa, Oahu that will use carbon dioxide from for profit producers on Oahu. The algae will thus be harvested and their oils extracted, by way of Phycal's patented processes, and committed within renewable biofuel. Phycal expects to outflow ground for the advantage farm in late 2011 or very old 2012.
85. John Pay, CEO, Imperium Renewables
A lot of obits were in black and white for Imperium Renewables believe in 2008 having the status of the wealth for biodiesel began to implode. John Pay held in reserve the launch animated by finding markets in Canada, and omission costs quantity to a token. Only just, he's related with Soothing Northwest Central Laboratory to build up a catalytic process that converts biomass-based alcohols within renewable drop-in jet fuels. Imperium entered within the project in July 2010 in a two-way research agreement with Battelle, the nonprofit research makeup that manages PNNL for DOE. The excessive objective is to use the process at a commercial moving parts such as Imperium's Grays Berth biodiesel refinery chummy Hoquiam.
86. Barry Cohen, Superintendent Above, Central Algae Sale
Like establishing the NAA some existence ago, Barry Cohen has been a obvious promoter for commercial-ready fuels, and tetchy burden from R the consumption of its stock crush from 5.30 to a mere 50 cents. But backfire Verify Emalfarb returned as CEO and led a reappearance of the launch, and a key suggest with Codexis, and a reverie that "he who can cocktail proteins in large tanks sufficient is going to manage the world."
100. Susan Team, Above, Dow US Studies Mean, Studious of Sydney
A first-time door in the Top 100, in tear due to her role as a facilitator of for profit biotechnology in Australia, and tear for her role in encouragement US-Australian ties in aviation biofuels. Dr. Team recalls: "Whilst Avalon, we had the intuition of an MOU or an agreement involving the US and Australia, which I unfilled to the Australian maintain in Canberra and the public at the Ministry of Cash Whoosh & Seeing the sights and Ministry of Persuade. CAAFI, in person, FAA and Austrade had a gathering towards a high-class formal agreement at the Better Biofuels Trend Business meeting in DC in return this time, and as marginal tear of the process we went to a prep gathering for APEC and put it on the APEC agreement submit, and it was signed of the limitations of the APEC gathering."
