Jim is an accomplished senior executive with experience in directing multi-billion dollar energy, petroleum, refining, chemical, and trading operations. In addition, he is an entrepreneur who has led new businesses in startups focused on commodities, business services, and software. Jim has been President and CEO of FuelSpot, a venture-backed Internet trading platform for fuels; Fuels Management, a coal upgrading business; and CEO Equity, a leveraged buyout firm. Jim was also SVP of Business Development for Evergreen Energy, a publicly-traded company with technology for upgrading coal. Prior to these assignments, Jim was President of the Koch Petroleum Group, where he was responsible for the refining, pipeline, energy and petroleum, asphalt, and trading businesses. He started his career with FMC, where he held a variety of engineering and management positions. Jim holds a BS in Chemical Engineering and an MBA, both from the University of Kansas.

Dan is an experienced venture manager with deep industry experience in product development in the chemicals and biotechnology sectors. He is co-inventor of the ZeaChem technology. Prior to ZeaChem, he identified and evaluated venture investments for Koch Industries. Prior to that, he was President of Chronopol, Inc., a unit of Coors Brewing Company, where he started up and ran a new polymer materials business based on polylactic acid, a renewable-derived, biodegradable polymer. Before Coors, he was a project manager with Bechtel, where he was responsible for international technology transfer and process design for a major project-financed agribusiness & biotechnology project. Before Bechtel, he was President & CEO of Engenics, a startup bioprocess development company, and held a succession of executive leadership positions at Gould, Inc. Dan has numerous patents, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton, and an MBA with High Distinction from Harvard Business School.

Roger has over 30 years of experience in the energy industry with a focus on process engineering, project management and plant management. He was the founder of Extractica, a company that developed a clean fuels technology and provided the technical consulting services to the petroleum refining industry. Prior to that, he was the Manager of a Project Management group for Koch Industries, executing new oil refinery projects. Before Koch, he was the Plant Manager for a Coastal Refining & Marketing refinery, and prior to that the Plant Manager for a fuel ethanol plant at High Plains Corporation (acquired by Abengoa). In addition to this operating experience, he was a Project Manager for a large engineering, procurement and construction firm. Roger has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kansas and holds one patent for a fuel desulfurization technology.

Andy has nearly twenty years of experience in corporate and project financial analysis and fundraising in the energy industry. He worked most recently as VP of Corporate Planning & Analysis at Evergreen Energy, a publicly-traded company, after holding a variety of roles there in business development and finance. Prior to Evergreen he was VP and the Senior Oilfield Services Equity Analyst at Stifel, Nicolaus, & Co., and held a number of buy-side and sell-side equity analyst positions with leading financial and investment firms. Andy has been recognized twice in the Wall Street Journal’s All-Star Analyst Survey for earnings estimate accuracy in the Oilfield Services Industry: #1 in 1998 and #5 in 2001. Andy graduated with honors in Economics from Connecticut College, earning a BA in History and Economics. He also earned an MBA from the Columbia University School of Business.