This CEO Is Using Biology To Make The World Better – Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO, LanzaTech $LNZA

This CEO Is Using Biology To Make The World Better – Dr. Jennifer
Holmgren, CEO, LanzaTech $LNZA





Name: Dr. Jennifer Holmgren


Title: Chair and CEO of LanzaTech Global, Inc.


Ticker: LNZA


Website: https://lanzatech.com/





Bio: Dr. Jennifer Holmgren is CEO of LanzaTech. Under her
guidance, LanzaTech is developing a variety of platform chemicals
and fuels, including the world’s first alternative jet fuel
derived from industrial waste gases.





Given her integral role in the development of this alternative
jet fuel, she is also a Director and the Chair of the LanzaJet
Board of Directors.





Prior to LanzaTech, Jennifer was VP and General Manager of the
Renewable Energy and Chemicals business unit at UOP LLC, a
Honeywell Company. While at UOP, she was a key driver of UOP’s
leadership in low carbon aviation biofuels, and under her
management, UOP technology became instrumental in producing
nearly all the initial fuels used by commercial airlines and the
military for testing and certification of alternative aviation
fuel.





Jennifer is the author or co-author of 50 U.S. patents and more
than 30 scientific publications, and is a member of the National
Academy of Engineering. In 2003, she was the first woman awarded
the Malcolm E. Pruitt Award from the Council for Chemical
Research (CCR).





In 2010, she was the recipient of the Leadership Award from the
Civil Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI). In 2015,
Jennifer and her team at LanzaTech were awarded the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency Presidential Green Chemistry
Award, and she was awarded the BIO Rosalind Franklin Award for
Leadership in Industrial Biotechnology. Jennifer was named as #1
of the 100 most influential leaders in the Bioeconomy in 2017 and
received the Global Bioenergy Leadership Award in 2018, and the
2020 William C. Holmberg Award for Lifetime Achievement in the
Advanced Bioeconomy. In 2021, she received the Edison Achievement
Award and the Prix Voltaire Award. In 2022, she was included in
ICIS’s Top 40 Power Players ranking. Jennifer also has an
honorary doctorate from Delft University of Technology.





Jennifer is on the Governing Council for the Bio Energy Research
Institute in India. The institute was set up by the DBT
(Department of Biotechnology, Indian Government) and IOC (Indian
Oil Corporation). She also sits on the Advisory Council for the
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton
University, the National Academies’ Board on Energy and
Environmental Systems (BEES), the External Advisory Committee for
the Advanced Energy Technologies Directorate (AET) at Argonne
National Laboratory, the Advisory Council for the Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), the Halliburton Labs
Advisory Board, the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS International
Advisory Council, and the Founder Advisory for The Engine, a
venture capital fund built by MIT that invests in early-stage
science and engineering companies.





Jennifer holds a B.Sc. degree from Harvey Mudd College, a Ph.D.
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA
from the University of Chicago.