Ecoduna is a privately held company that is specializing in the development and  production of photo bioreactors for the cultivation of micro-algae.
Ecoduna offers a new biosolar system and innovative photobioreactors which massively reduce the energy input for micro algae cultivation, and considerably increases the quality and quantity of the algae produced.
So far it was not [...]

Dr.  Anong Chirapart is the Associate Professor of Department of Fishery Biology, at the Kasetsart University.
EDUCATION:
1983   BSc. (Biology), Ramkhamhaeng University, Thailand
1988   MSc. (Fisheries Science), Kasetsart University, Thailand
1993   MSc. (Marine Biology), Kochi University, Japan
1996   Ph.D (Phycology), Ehime University, Japan
Her research interests are in
- Ecology and taxonomy of seaweeds
- Cultivation and application of seaweeds
Algae World Asia 2009 [...]

Rob Thomas has thirty years experience in environmental science as a research manager, consultant, policy maker and environmental regulator.
He has been a board member of the CRC for Plant-Based Solutions for Dryland Salinity, Chair of the CRC Irrigation Futures Participants Forum, and is now a director of the CRC eWater Board.
In the past, Mr Thomas [...]

Marvin Yeo is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Frontier Investment and Development Partners (FIDP) – a firm set up in 2008 to focus on frontier market investments starting with Cambodia in 2008 and Mongolia and Laos thereafter.
Before starting FIDP, Marvin was a Senior Financing Specialist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), where he was [...]

Joe McDonald is a Biologist with a historical bias in Research & Development  and commercial farming of new marine aquaculture species.  Working extensively throughout Asia, providing technology transfer and consultancy services.
He is the Co founder and Managing Director of Varicon Aqua Solutions Ltd and Co founder, Chief Operating Officer and Technical Director of Sasaran Varicon [...]

Dr Iwane Suzuki obtained a Ph.D. degree in agricultural chemistry from Nagoya University, Japan in 1995. He became the fellow (PD) of Japanese Society of Promotion of Sciences for a few months and then got a position of Research Associate at National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan. Subsequently, he moved to the University of Tsukuba [...]

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. is India’s largest company by sales with a turnover of Rs. 285,337 crore and profit of Rs. 2,950 crore for fiscal 2008-09. IndianOil controls 10 of India’s 20 refineries. The group refining capacity is 60.2 million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA) or 1.2 million barrels per day -the largest share among [...]

ENN Group is committed to the development and utilization of clean energy. Since our founding in 1989, ENN Group has focused on becoming a vertically integrated supplier of energy. Not only do we supply gas to homes and industries in urban and rural China, but we are also laying the pipeline that gets it to [...]

Dr. Sebastian Thomas is CEO of Parry Nutraceuticals – Chennai, India. He has been involved in applied microalgae R&D for more than 3 decades. He established India’s first commercial production facilities for Spirulina, Dunaliella salina and Haematococcus pluvialis for the Dietary Supplements and Functional Foods market.
He is currently setting up production facilities for the production [...]

Supreme Biotech is a privately held company that is specialising in the production of bioactive compounds derived from micro-algae. Our algae growing ability matched with the capability of our world class research and extraction partners ensures that we can quickly commercialise new bio-actives.
The company has acquired world-wide rights to a bioreactor system that enables economical [...]

Celadon Capital (www.celadoncapital.com), is an independent, privately-owned international corporate finance and strategic advisory firm, with a focus on private equity (PE), venture capital (VC), M&A, overseas listings, business partnering and related strategic matters. In essence, our business is about connecting…

Companies with Capital (capital raising, mainly from PE, VC and hedge funds)
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Professor Avigad Vonshak is the Director of the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR). The BIDR is the research arm of Ben-Gurion University which studies the problems of Desertification and tries to develop new methodologies that will help in preventing Desertification and promote sustainable development of drylands.
He is a member of the Landau family [...]

In 1979, after years of research, Earthrise® introduced Spirulina to the natural foods market. Then, in 1982, the visionaries at Earthrise built the first U.S. Spirulina farm to grow this green superfood in pure California desert sunshine using ecological, earth-friendly methods.
Today, Earthrise Nutritionals’ farm is the world’s largest Spirulina farm. Earthrise products are marketed in [...]

Kian Wee Tian obtained his Bachelor degree at SUNY Buffalo and Masters degree in Univeristy of Pennsylvania. Currently he is pursuing his PhD degree in University Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) after joining UTAR as a biology lecturer at UTAR Center of Foundation Studies in year 2005.
He set up the infrastructure of a microalgae research laboratory [...]

Holcim is the world’s largest cement and aggregate manufacturer, with operations in 80 countries across the world. They have developed expertise in pre-processing hazardous and non hazardous waste to be used in their cement plants as an alternate to fuel.
Their group company ACC Ltd., India have supported the endeavor to develop laboratory stage bio reactor [...]

Murdoch University has a strong focus on sustainable industries and renewable energy. Professor Borowitzka and his Algae Research Group have been involved in the study of microalgae for commercial applications, especially the production of high value fine chemicals for over 30 years. The group has also been working on algae for lipid production, including the [...]

The Institutes for Desert Research were established in Sede-Boqer in 1974. It was renamed The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR) in 1980 following generous contribution to BGU by The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation
Activities cover basic research in:

Environmental physics, with applications in desert meteorology and solar energy.
Water sciences and technology, with applications in [...]

The Institute for Environmental Biotechnology, Rhode University (EBRU) is a self-funded research entity which targets research in Environmental Biotechnology at the interface between the fundamental and applied sciences. Its main area of focus has been innovation and development of environmental bioprocesses related to water treatment. Its basic research activities are supported by a strong emphasis [...]