Jean-François Huc

Diversified Natural Products, Inc. develops and commercializes products for chemical and healthcare industries. Its products include HEP-40, Oligo flex and xp-828L. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Arthur D. Little, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in strategy and organization, operations management, technology and innovation management, corporate finance, and global carbon advisory serving corporations and organizations worldwide. The firm serves the automotive, healthcare, information, chemicals, consumer goods, retail, manufacturing, and transportation industries. The company was founded by Arthur Dehon Little and Roger Griffin in October 1886 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

DNP Green Technology is a stand-alone business devoted to commercialization of technologies related to manufacturing of biologically-derived succinic acid and its derivatives. DNP Green Technology's bio-based succinic acid production process is cost competitive with that of petro-based processes and has the further advantage of being 'green'. DNP's process consumes green house gases (CO2), providing the long term potential to generate carbon credits. Its core technology consists of a proprietary E.coli fermentation process and an integrated downstream process that has been proven at a large scale (80,000 liters). Succinic acid has numerous market applications such as bioplastics & green plasticizers and polyesters & resins.

BioAmber, Inc. is an industrial biotechnology company, which produces sustainable chemicals. Its proprietary technology platform combines industrial biotechnology and chemical catalysis to convert renewable feedstock into chemicals for use in everyday products, including plastics, resins, paints, food additives and personal care products. The firm's products include bio-based succinic acid, butanediol and bio-based disodium succinate. The company was founded on October 15, 2008 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

BioAmber Canada, Inc. provides industrial biotechnology and chemical catalysis to convert renewable feedstock into chemicals for use in a wide variety of products including plastics, resins, food additives and personal care products. The company was founded on October 15, 2008 and is headquartered in Montréal, Canada.

Comet Biorefining, Inc. operates as a holding company, which engages in the provision of cellulosic glucose technology for applications in renewable biofuels and biochemicals. It proprietary technology allows for the conversion of wood, wheat straw, bagasse, corn stover and other agricultural waste materials into high purity cellulosic glucose syrup. These non-food sources offer lower cost and price stability when compared to food sugar sources such as corn or sugar cane. The company was founded by Andrew Richard in 2009 and is headquartered in London, Canada.