Sapphire Energy Adds C.J. Warner, Oil Industry Veteran, as President
homes around the globe, and on President-elect Obama’s agenda, Sapphire Energy
continues to grow its top-flight professional team with the appointment of
Cynthia J. (C.J.) Warner, a top British Petroleum (BP) executive and an expert
in refining, transportation and operations, as President, starting
2009
and will join an already impressive team of experts in transportation fuels,
cell biology, plant genomics and algal production to create a commercial-
scale crude oil operation using only sunlight, carbon dioxide and non-potable
water.
Under Warner’s leadership, Sapphire Energy will begin transitioning
technology trials and research into the company’s actual production of the
‘green crude,’ — the environmental and economically wiser option for
gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. Sapphire Energy is an energy exploration and
production company that uses a proprietary technology to create green crude, a
renewable liquid fuel, similar to light sweet crude, which can be refined into
carbon-neutral transportation fuels such as gasoline, jet fuel and diesel.
“Sapphire Energy’s development of a sustainable, carbon neutral gasoline,
diesel and jet fuel from algae is progressing and we now need a top energy
industry executive with the expertise to bring new fuel products to market in
this complex industry,” said
a tremendous asset as we bring green crude to commercial scale in the next
five years. We founded Sapphire to create the perfect fuel, knowing that we’d
build a world-class team along the way. With C.J., we’ve found our next star.”
A chemical engineer by training, and one of the very few senior women in
the oil and gas industry, Warner has spent 27 years as an oil industry
executive beginning with UOP and Amoco Oil Company before moving to BP in
1998. With BP, her leadership roles included oversight of operations in five
continents.
“Joining Sapphire to help create a new and scalable source of energy to
fuel the world’s needs is the perfect challenge. Pioneering a new energy
frontier for the next industrial era is the best way I can imagine to make a
positive impact as a leader,” describes Cynthia (C.J.) Warner.
About Sapphire Energy
Sapphire Energy was founded to address the overwhelming inadequacies of
current biofuel approaches. The company has built a revolutionary platform
using sunlight, CO2 and microorganisms such as algae to produce renewable fuel
products — gasoline, jet fuel and diesel that meet ASTM standards. The final
product is not ethanol or biodiesel. Sapphire is led by a team of
entrepreneurs and experts in cell biology, plant genomics and algal
production, as well as investors with long histories of taking innovative
technology to market, including co-founder ARCH Venture Partners, along with
the Wellcome Trust, Cascade Investment and Venrock. Sapphire’s scientific
supporters include The
San Diego
Genome Project. The company is located in
visit http://www.sapphireenergy.com and http://www.greencrudeproduction.com.
SOURCE Sapphire Energy