On Friday, April 10, 2009, BioFuels Journal spoke with John Fox, CEO of Innovation Fuels, Albany, NY, on biodiesel issues pertaining to feedstocks and national policy.
Highlights of the Podcast
• Fox explains Innovation Fuels research on pennycress.
• The current status of shipments of biodiesel to Europe.
• Fox expresses his opinion on the government benefits given to the biodiesel industry this year.
• Fox gives his thoughts on what the biodiesel industry might expect to see in the next few years.
John Fox's Biography
John Fox has been building businesses and product offerings for the past 15 years, seven years of which have been in US energy industry.
Fox started a renewable energy project development company, Homeland Energy Resources Development, Inc. in 2001, and subsequently its biodiesel division in 2005, which was merged into Innovation Fuels.
He led Homeland Energy to an average 50 percent year-over-year revenue growth and managed a team that developed more than $5 million alternative fuel projects.
Prior to founding Homeland Energy, Fox led the business development of a biogas technology company, the financing of an independent oil and gas company, and the product development of a Lucent Technologies company.
Since 1991, Fox has served as General Partner at Renard Properties, a Mid-Atlantic real-estate development and management company.
He holds a BA from Syracuse University and an MBA from Columbia Business School and is currently a member of the National Biodiesel Board, American Council on Renewable Energy, Environmental Business Association of New York State, and U.S. Green Building Council.
