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Chief Technology Officer, has over 25 years of experience leading technology transfer efforts for companies such as ICI, Conoco/Dupont, Cargill, Betchel, UOP, BP, Chemstar and GE Osmonics. Sullivan’s professional background includes former Manager, Biodiesel Business Development for Delta-T Corporation; director of Crown Iron Works strategic marketing initiates for biodiesel and oilseed crushing integration technologies; and advisor in critical market negotiation for World Energy, part of Gulf Oil Group. He led Chemstar Products on starch chemical marketing, Cargill on novel genetic canola TMP ester base oils, and developed at Osmonics the market for new water treatment processes and products for oil and gas operations. Sullivan positioned Dover’s RPA refinery process business on hydrocracker feed filters with Chevron and UOP; assisted in the Bechtel UOP start-up with Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura hydrocracker. He developed new vapor phase corrosion inhibitor markets using soy methyl ester amidoamine technology for BP with Cortec Corporation in 2000. Sullivan led strategic development for Conoco and Dupont’s European integration efforts of refinery and petrochemical intermediates. He managed new technology for oil and gas drilling projects with ICI Petroleum in the U.K. and completed the RCRA hazardous waste planning for the EPA and the State of Texas. He began his career with Dresser Europe. Sullivan earned his BA from the University of Texas at Austin and MA from Arizona State University. He completed graduate school in Geosciences at Texas A & M University; earned his MBA at England’s Warwick University and Refinery Engineering at St. Catherine’s College of Oxford University. | 