The Top 100 People in the Bioeconomy for 2013-14, as selected by the readers and editors of The Digest:
1. Tom Vilsack, US Secretary of Agriculture 2. Jonathan Wolfson, CEO, Solazyme 3. Jeff Lautt, CEO, POET, Jeff Broin, Chairman, POET 4. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO, LanzaTech 5. Michael McAdams, President, Advanced Biofuels Association 6. Brent Erickson, EVP Industrial & Environmental Section, BIO 7. Guido Ghisolfi, CEO, Beta Renewables 8. Christophe Schilling, CEO, Genomatica 9. Bob Dinneen, President, Renewable Fuels Association 10. Jim Collins, President, DuPont Industrial Biosciences
11. Fred Cannon, PhD, CEO, KiOR 12. Vasco Dias, CEO, Raizen 13. Daniel Oh, CEO, Renewable Energy Group 14. Bruce Dale, PhD, Michigan State University 15. Jonathan Male, Valerie Reed, Joyce Yang, DOE Biomass Program 16. Joe Jobe, CEO, National Biodiesel Board 17. Ray Mabus, US Secretary of the Navy 18. Brooke Coleman, Executive Director, Advanced Ethanol Council 19. Peter Williams, CEO, INEOS BIO; Mark Niederschulte, COO; Dan Cummings VP 20. Tom Buis, President; Wes Clark co-chairman, Growth Energy
21. Philip New, CEO, BP Biofuels, Sue Ellerbusch, President 22. Pat Gruber, PhD, CEO, Gevo 23. Robert Brown, PhD, Professor, Iowa State University 24. Peder Holk Nielsen, CEO, Novozymes 25. Matthew Tipper, VP, Alternative Energy, Shell 26. Cynthia (C.J.) Warner, Chairman and CEO, Sapphire Energy 27. Jay Keasling, PhD, Professor, UC Berkeley 28. Bernardo Gradin, CEO, GranBio; Theodora Retsina, CEO, American Process 29. Todd Becker, CEO, Green Plains Renewable Energy; Tim Burns, CEO, BioProcess Algae 30. Mary Rosenthal, Exec Dir, Algal Biomass Organization
31. Lee Edwards, CEO, Virent, Randy Cortright, PhD, CTO, Virent Energy Systems 32. Feike Sijbesma, CEO; Anton Robek, President Bio-based Products and Services, DSM 33. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa; Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan; Terry Branstad, Governor of Iowa 34. Dennis McGinn, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy; Tom Hicks, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Chris Tindal, Director, Energy Policy, US Navy; 35. Harry Baumes, Director, Energy Policy, USDA; Ernest Moniz, Secretary of Energy; David Danielson, US Assistant Secretary of Energy 36. Paul Woods, CEO, Algenol 37. Vincent Chornet, CEO, Enerkem; Tim Cesarak, Sr VP, Enerkem 38. John Melo, CEO, Amyris 39. Mike Hamilton. CEO, Renmatix; Fred Moesler, CTO, Renmatix
40. Matti Lievonen, CEO, Neste Oil 41. Sarah Bittleman, Sr. Agricultural Counselor, EPA 42. Doug Cameron, Tom Erickson, co-presidents, First Green 43. Richard Hamilton, CEO, Ceres 44. Jim Macias, CEO, Fulcrum Bioenergy 45. Tom Foust, PhD, NREL; Director, National Advanced Biofuels Consortium; Jose Olivares, PhD, Director, National Alliance For Advanced Biofuels and Bio-Products 46. Mike Cheiky, Founder and CTO, Cool Planet Energy Systems; Howard Janzen, CEO 47. Jim Rekoske, VP & GM, Honeywell’s UOP 48. Nancy Young, VP, Environmental Affairs, Airlines for America, Rich Altman, Exec Director Emeritus, CAAFI, John Heimlich, Chief Economist, Airlines for America; Bill Glover, VP, Boeing 49. Paul Beckwith, CEO, Butamax 50. Bob Mayer, CEO, Cobalt Technologies
51. Bill Brady, CEO, Mascoma 52. Anna Rath, CEO, NexSteppe 53. Bill Lese, MD, Braemar Energy Ventures 54. Matt Horton, CEO, Propel Fuels 55. Jan Koninckx, Global Business Director for Biofuels, DuPont; Michael Arbige, PhD, Exec VP, Dupont Industrial Biosciences, 56. John May, Managing Director, Stern Brothers; Mark Riedy, Partner, Kilpatrick Townsend; John Kirkwood, Kreig DeVault 57. Kirk Haney, CEO, SG Biofuels 58. Rob Vierhout, Secretary General, ePure 59. Sean Sutcliffe, CEO; Joel Stone, President, North America, Green Biologivcs 60. Pramod Chaudhari, CEO, PRAJ Industries
61. Dr. George Huber, University of Wisconsin; Jim Dumesic, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison 62. Chas Eggert, CEO, OPX Bio 63. Mark Emalfarb, CEO, Dyadic International 64. Brian Foody, CEO, Iogen 65. Lee Lynd, PhD, Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth College; Charles Wyman, PhD, Professor, UC Riverside; Lonnie Ingram, Professor, University of Florida. 66. Jim Gillingham, Sr, VP, Valero; Jim Sayre, Senior MD, Cargill Ventures 67. Ganesh Kishore, PhD, CEO, Malaysian Life Sciences Fund, Roger Wyse, co-chairman, Malaysian Life Sciences Fund 68. Noubar Afeyan, PhD, CEO, Flagship Ventures, David Berry, MD, Flagship Ventures 69. K’Lynne Johnson, CEO, Elevance Renewable Science 70. Chris Somerville, PhD, Professor, UC Berkeley Director, EBI
71. Scott Vitters, The Coca-Cola Company; Tom van Aken, CEO Avantium 72. Wayne Simmons, CEO, Sundrop Fuels 73. Daphne Preuss, CEO, Chromatin 74. Eric McAfee, CEO, Aemetis 75. Todd Taylor, Partner, Frederickson & Byron 76. Barry Cohen, Executive Director, National Algae Association 77. Chris Standlee, EVP, Abengoa Bioenergy 78. James Liao, Professor, UCLA 79. Steven Mayfield, Professor, UCSD 80. Vinod Khosla, Managing Partner; Samir Kaul, MD, Khosla Ventures
81. Jerry Fiddler, Chairman, Solazyme; Jean-Marc Rotsaert, COO; Mark Warner, Senior Vice President of Engineering; Bob Ames, Vice President, Fuels Commercialization 82. Dr. Susan Pond, chairman, Australian Initiative for Sustainable Aviation Fuels 83. Vonnie Estes, Managing Director, Americas, GranBio; Basil Karempelas, President, American Process 84. Philip Pienkos, PhD, NREL 85. John Benemann, PhD, CEO, Benemann Associates 86. Jeff Webster, COO, Tim Zenk, SVP, Sapphire Energy 87. Kef Kasdin, CEO, Proterro; Arunas Chesonis, Ceo, Sweetwater Energy 88. Jerry Calder, Managing Partner, Finistere Vantures; Denis Lucquin, Sofinnova Partners 89. Doug Berven, VP, POET
90. Joanne Ivancic, Exec Dir, Advanced Biofuels USA 91. Graham Noyes, Partner, Stoel Rives 92. Dan Simon, CEO, Heliae 93. Geoff Cooper, VP, Renewable Fuels Association 94. Dirk Kronemeijer, CEO, SkyNRG 95. Riggs Eckelberry, CEO, OriginOil 96. Jim Stewart, President, Bioenergy Producers Association 97. Michael Adams, University of Georgia 98. Kelly Tiller, CEO, Genera Energy 99. Bill Radany, CEO Verdezyne 100. John Plaza, CEO, Imperium Renewables