AMES, Iowa, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Catilin, Inc., a biodiesel technology company, today announced that David Sams has joined the company as Vice President of Business Development. Sams brings more than 20 years experience in the petrochemical manufacturing industry to Catilin and will be responsible for developing and maintaining Catilin's partnerships on a world-wide basis.
"Dave Sams brings Catilin not only significant business development leadership from W.R. Grace and ORYXE Energy, but he also has deep technical and petrochemical market production insights as an engineer with Shell Oil," said Larry Lenhart, President and CEO of Catilin. "With the Obama Administration's commitment to biofuels, the timing could not be better to welcome Dave to our leadership team."
Sams has held executive positions at WR Grace and ORYXE Energy leading sales and business development activities across the globe. Most recently he was Senior Vice President of Supply and Marketing at ORYXE Energy, a clean-tech venture-backed company. He has also held engineering leadership positions for Shell Oil.
On Catilin, Sams said: "I look forward to working with the Catilin team, its customers and partners. It is a dynamic time in the marketplace, driven by rapid adoption of renewable energy, promising and abundant feedstocks, and important technological advancements."
About Catilin
Catilin, Inc. is a technology based company that is revolutionizing biofuel production. Catilin has developed a unique, new technology for biodiesel production that greatly reduces the cost of producing a gallon of biodiesel while creating a superior quality biodiesel and glycerin by-product. Catilin's patent-pending non-toxic technology is centered around a family of solid heterogeneous catalysts that can be easily utilized within existing production facilities, can be reused multiple times and works with virtually every biodiesel feedstock source. In addition, several production steps in the traditional biodiesel production process can be eliminated with Catilin's revolutionary technology, making the process both economically and environmentally more desirable, while producing a more pure biodiesel and a more pure glycerol side-product.
The pioneering research of Catilin continues to focus on the future of biodiesel including our DOE-award wining research on algae to biodiesel.
