7
Apr
2010
Sapphire Expands Board with Petro and Agra Talent
Algae Industry Magazine
Former Monsanto CEO Robert Shapiro, former BP Managing Director David Allen, and venture capitalist and bio-tech executive David E. Shaw have been appointed to Sapphire Energy’s board of directors, signaling the board’s focus on the intersection between energy, agriculture, and biotechnology in the game-changing creation of fuel from algae.
“This may well be the year that all roads lead to algae,” says Jason Pyle, CEO of Sapphire Energy. “We started the year with $104 million in new federal funding, recently expanded our executive leadership team with the appointment of Jim Lambright, and today have added three distinguished executives to our board to guide us as we move closer to commercialization.”
