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Sapphire's CJ Warner's interviewed live on CNN
Former BP Exec Cynthia Warner Left Big Oil for Big Algae - And She's Not Alone
Recovery Act Project Will Create Clean Energy Jobs in Southern New Mexico
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SAPPHIRE ENERGY WELCOMES NEW SENIOR DIRECTOR, DOWNSTREAM TECHNOLOGY
Oil industry veteran Dan Sajkowski joins Sapphire Energy as senior director, downstream technology. Sajkowski spent the last five years as the business unit leader of BP’s Whiting Refinery, the 4th largest refinery in the country, and has more than 25 years' experience in t the oil and refining industry.
TOP INDUSTRIES CONVERGE ON SAPPHIRE ENERGY’S ALGAE-FUEL PLANS
Top executives from three key industries have been appointed to Sapphire Energy’s board of directors, signaling their support for the intersection between energy, agriculture, and biotechnology in the game-changing creation of fuel from algae. Joining May 20 are former Monsanto chief Robert Shapiro, former BP executive David Allen, and venture capitalist and bio-tech executive David E. Shaw.
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Exploring Algae as Fuel
SAN DIEGO — In a laboratory where almost all the test tubes look green, the tools of modern biotechnology are being applied to lowly pond scum.
Former BP Exec Sets Her Sights on Algae as the Fuel of the Future
CJ Warner was at the top of her game when she saw the writing on the wall. Twenty years into a glass-ceiling-busting career at BP, she had risen to the rank of Head of Global Refining for BP, making her one of the highest ranking executives in the oil industry. That was when she realized that she was running towards a dead end. “I had a slow but growing realization that the industry was maturing, the current fields were falling off in volume more quickly than anticipated, and the feats required to find new oil were becoming more and more heroic.”
