Advisory Board

Dr. Napoleao Beltrao
Former head of EMBRAPA Algodao– Paraiba. One of Brazil’s leading agronomists in the area of oilseed crops. Author of over 130 scientific papers and 11 books on the subject of oilseed agronomy.

Dr. Jose Furtado Cavalcanti
Head of Operations, BioVerde with over 30 years of experience in refining Biodiesel.

Rakesh Kaul
Senior Advisor, Carlyle Group.

Rajan Kundra
Managing Partner at Acumen Funds. 14+ years of energy trading experience at JPMorgan, Lehman Brothers

Sreedhar Menon
Former Chairman of American Express Bank. Past President of the Indian American Chamber of Commerce. Current board member of United Breweries, The George Foundation and Viteos.

Mike Packard
Seniors Operations Exec with experience in oleo-chemical manufacturing (P&G) and alternative energy (US Govt).

B.V. Patel
Chairman, P&G India. Member of the Executive Committee Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Paul Polakowski
Polakowski has over ten years of corporate finance, business development and M&A experience with emerging companies as both a principal and advisor. Since 2001, he has served as corporate finance / business development advisor to HemaCare Bioscience, Inc. (formerly known as Teragenix Corporation). Before working with Teragenix, Polakowski was an investment associate at DB Capital Partners (the private equity affiliate of Deutsche Bank), where he focused on structuring leveraged buyouts and making growth investments in general industrial, healthcare, communications and media companies. Polakowski began his career in finance as an analyst in the Investment Banking Division at Lehman Brothers, Inc.

Elliot Quint
Former SVP and head of Supply and Distribution at Global Partners LP in Boston, one of the largest wholesale distributors of petroleum products in the United States.

Dr. T. Rajagopalan
Former head of R&D for Procter & Gamble, Ciba Pharmaceuticals. Elected Research Fellow of the Victor Mills Society. Holder of 2 US Patents. Doctorate in biochemistry from Duke University.

Dr. Sanjeev Saraf – Advisor to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and DOE. Process safety management expert. Contributing editor for Hydrocarbon Processing. Doctorate in chemical engineering from Texas A&M.

H.L. Zutshi
Former Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Petroleum, India’s $20 billion state oil company.