A.I.M. Interview: OriginOil’s Brian Goodall
When senior executives move from the petroleum industry into the biofuels sector, there is a certain satisfaction that comes with them into this new field. Their satisfaction, because they are…
AIM Interview: LANL’s José Olivares
National security is at the root of the nearly seventy-year old Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the world’s leading scientific research institutions. While originally organized for a single purpose: to design and build the atomic bomb…
AIM Interview: Dr. Russell Chapman
Dr. Russell Chapman, Executive Director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in San Diego, takes great joy in sharing his passion for algae with his students. Delighting crowds with his colorful…
AIM Interview: Senator Tom Udall
New Mexico Senator Tom Udall has on his desk a couple of objects he likes to share with young student leaders who tour the Senate offices in Washington, D.C. He says to them, “I want to show you what your future is about,” and then hands them a little solar panel…
AIM Interview: NREL’s Al Darzins
Dr. Al Darzins joined the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL, www.nrel.gov) in the fall of 2005. As a principal group manager he leads the research of the Applied Sciences Group in the National Bioenergy Center (NBC), a multidisciplinary research…
AIM Interview: Solazyme’s Harrison Dillon
Seven years ago two former college roommates set up shop in a Palo Alto garage, with the mission of becoming the first company to develop commercial algae-based fuel. They built their business…
AIM Interview: ABO’s Mary Rosenthal
Executive Director of the Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) for most of the past year, Mary Rosenthal, comes from a background in high-level sales, marketing and communications with several Fortune 500 companies in the food industry…
AIM Interview: Dr. John Benemann
As pioneers go, in the modern business of algae biofuels and co-products, possibly no one has built a longer record of accomplishment than Dr. John Benemann. Involved in algae biofuels and…
AIM Interview: NAA’s Barry Cohen
Barry Cohen, Executive Director and Founder of the National Algae Association, has been involved in the lending community since the early 1980s, working with middle-market companies to secure working capital, inventory, equipment and construction loans…
AIM Interview: SRS’s Tom Czartoski
Extracting oil from algae is where the rubber meets the road in the algae production process. In this early stage of the industry, no standard process has yet been recognized as the universally accepted approach, and even such a major differential as wet…
AIM Interview: Riggs Eckelberry (Part 3)
We are going to see a massive transfer of energy production from petroleum to algae, which is a huge paradigm shift from a few big producers to everybody being a producer, and that paradigm shift will…
AIM Interview: OriginOil’s Riggs Eckelberry Interview (Part 2)
Pure madness! My brother and co-founder, Nicholas, really had a dream to get into environmental technologies in the early 90s, and it wasn’t ready to happen. I was in high tech and just got carried…
AIM Interview: OriginOil’s Riggs Eckelberry Interview (Part 1)
If there is a poster boy for algae’s fabulous future, it’s currently Riggs Eckelberry. Coming from a strong executive background guiding dotcoms through the early internet years, Riggs established OriginOil…
AIM Interview: Algaeventure System’s Ross Youngs
On March 10, 2009, Algaeventure Systems, Inc. (AVS) announced a technological breakthrough for one of algae’s major road blocks, getting algae out of solution — harvest and dewatering. In the recently…
AIM Interview: BioCentric Energy’s Dennis Fisher
Coming from an engineering and contractor background, Dennis Fisher first stepped into the algae world when some friends asked him to design a biodiesel and ethanol plant in Caruthersville…
AIM Interview: Sapphire Energy’s Tim Zenk
Sapphire Energy began in 2007 with a debate between three friends: entrepreneur and bioengineer Jason Pyle; Kristina Burow, a chemist turned venture capitalist; and Nathaniel David, a biologist and serial company…
AIM Interview: Doug Lynn
The Center for Excellence in Hazardous Materials Management, aka CEHMM, was established in May of 2004 as a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to reducing the impact of hazardous materials on the environment. With Executive Director Doug Lynn at the helm…
