Founders
Mike Slaney
Mike Slaney
Mike Slaney
Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Commercial Officer
- Over 35 years experience – corporate and project development, legal, and investment banking
- Co-founder of industrial platform companies, including ASAlliances Biofuels LLC (ethanol company sold to a NYSE-listed company for $725 million) and Gevo Development, LLC (renewable chemical company valued at $425 million IPO)
- Partner with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, with completed transactions valued at more than $23 billion
- Analyst at the investment banking firm of Kidder, Peabody & Co. and an associate at KPMG LLP
- Bachelor of Science degree in both Accounting and Business Administration in 1986 from the University of Kansas, where he was the student body senior class president and Jurist Doctorate, with honors, from Indiana University in 1992
Tom Murray
Mike Slaney
Mike Slaney
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Technology Officer
- Over 30 years experience – technology development and ULO industry
- Inventor and patent holder of many technologies for upgrading ULO to marine gas oil and Group III base oil
- Co-founder of technology and consulting companies focused on the used lubricating industry, including Probex, a used oil re-refining company that secured $14 million of funding and two patents
- ULO industry conference speaker and columnist regarding implications of IMO 2020 for the ULO industry
- Analyst at investment banking firm of Warburg Paribas Becker
- Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, with honors, from Holy Cross College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School