Vilsack; POET, LanzaTech, Beta Renewables, Genomatica, DuPont, Solazyme, KiOR, Raizen, REG Execs Win Top 100 People in the Bioeconomy poll for 2013-14
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In the annual poll, voters reward key fighters on the RFS2 front, companies reaching scale, and pioneers in renewable chemicals. Top 300 recognized.
In Florida, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack headed the “Top 100 People in the Bioeconomy” as voted by the readers of The Digest and the publication’s editorial board.
Vilsack was followed in the top 10 by Solazyme’s CEO Jonathan Wolfson; POET’s Jeff Broin and Jeff Lautt; LanzaTech CEO Jennifer Holmgren, Advanced Biofuels Association president Mike McAdams, BIO’s Industrial & Environmental section head Brent Erickson, Beta Renewables CEO Guido Ghisolfi, Genomatica CEO Christophe Schilling; Renewable Fuels Association chief Bob Dinneen; and DuPont Industrial Biosciences chief Jim Collins.
This year, the Digest recognized a complete Top 300 for the first time, in recognition of the vast number of write-in votes and the distributed nature of the voting, in which more than 400 individuals received votes in the poll. READ MORE The Complete Top 100 Poll; PLUS, the complete Top 300.
Editor’s note: Advanced Biofuels USA executive director placed 90th in the Top 100, achieving recognition for the work of Advanced Biofuels USA in this international list for the fourth year. READ MORE