Advanced Biofuels


Virent Names Edgar Steenwinkel VP, Research and Development

Date Posted: September 30, 2014

Madison, WI—Virent announced Sept. 30 the appointment of Edgar Steenwinkel as the company’s Vice President of Research and Development.

Steenwinkel will lead technology development efforts of Virent’s BioForming® platform in preparation of commercialization of its biofuel and biobased chemicals.

“Virent is the perfect match for my experience and I am thrilled to join their leadership team,” said Steenwinkel.

“The company’s novel technology and world-class collaborations will make for a bright future, and I am excited to contribute to bringing their products to market.”

“We are pleased to welcome Edgar to our team,” said Lee Edwards, Virent’s CEO and President.

“His technical expertise and industry experience in commercializing new technologies, combined with strong strategic planning and marketing capabilities, are remarkable and will prove to be very valuable to Virent.”

“I look forward to working closely with Edgar to achieve our goals,” said Dr. Randy Cortright, Virent’s Founder and CTO.

“His background and experience are ideal to take our current capabilities to commercial scale. With Edgar’s arrival, I will be focusing on longer term technology strategy, external technical resources, new collaborations and development of next generation platforms.”

Steenwinkel joins Virent from Albemarle, where he served as Global Business Director for Alternative Fuels Technologies.

At Albemarle, he led multiple global development and commercialization efforts for catalysts and other new, innovative products for biobased transportation fuels.

Steenwinkel has 20+ years of demonstrated success in R&D;, manufacturing and building new global business groups.

He received a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Amsterdam.

For more information, call 608-210-3368.

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