Sapphire Energy competitors

J Kent Masters are a CEO & Director at Amec Foster Wheeler, Board Member at Prince International Corporation, and Chairman/President/CEO at Albemarle and are based in Baar, Canton of Zug, Switzerland. They have worked as CEO:Industrial & Special at BOC Group, President at BOC Process Gas Solutions, and Director:Business at Boc Gases North America. J studied at New York University and Georgia Institute of Technology.

Robert A. Bradway is an American businessman. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of Amgen.

José E. Almeida is a Brazilian businessman. He has served as the chairman and CEO of Baxter International, Inc. since January 2016. He worked for Tyco Healthcare from 1995 to 2002. He was president of Medical Devices division from October 2006 to June 2011. He served as chairman of the board of directors of Covidien since March 2012 and as the president, chief executive officer and a director since July 2011. He became a director of EMC Corporation on Jan 12, 2015 and resigned on October 30, 2015, due to his election as chairman and CEO of Baxter. In 2015, he worked for The Carlyle Group as an Operating Executive in the Global Healthcare group.

Mike Sommers is the 15th chief executive of the American Petroleum Institute since its founding almost a century ago. API is the largest national trade association representing all aspects of America's oil and natural gas industry. Before being named APl's president and CEO, Sommers led the American Investment Council, a trade association representing many of the nation's leading private equity and growth capital firms and other business partners. Sommers spent two decades in critical staff leadership roles in the U.S. House of Representatives and the White House, including chief of staff for Speaker of the House John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and Special Assistant to President George W. Bush at the National Economic Council. Sommers has been instrumental in crafting landmark legislation, including leading efforts to pass the Troubled Asset Relief Program through Congress, brokering a resolution between the administration and Congress ahead of the fiscal cliff in 2013, leading efforts to pass the Bipartisan Budget Agreement of 2015 and trade promotion authority in 2015. Sommers is a native of Naperville, Illinois, and a graduate of the honors program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he was awarded the President's Distinguished Service Medal - the highest honor given to a Miami undergraduate. He is married to Jill Sommers, a former Commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). They have three children and live in Alexandria, Virginia.

Experienced lawyer and executive in the cleantech / algae biomass / industrial biotech arenas. Since 2020, I have served as CFO and Chief Legal Officer of ECOR Global Inc. (fka Noble Environmental Technologies Corp.), a leading provider of fiber-based materials and circular economy solutions. In addition, I serve as CEO of Cellana, Inc., a leading developer of algae-based bioproducts for sustainable nutrition and energy applications. Before Cellana, I served as a senior corporate development executive with Verenium Corp. (fka Diversa Corp.). Throughout my career, I have focused on a combination of key corporate and business development skills and initiatives (e.g., collaborations, licenses, M&A, joint ventures, etc.), finance department leadership, strategy formulation/execution, and general management. My cleantech executive / management / financing experience builds on my prior background as an investment banker (with Bear Stearns) and transactional attorney (with Latham & Watkins), where I worked on a wide variety of different financing and M&A transactions aggregating more than $10 billion. Specialties: Financings, M&A, Strategy, Strategic Partnering, Joint Ventures, General Management