Global Clean Energy Holdings, Inc. Announces Board Appointments
July 27, 2021 at 06:34 pm IST
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Global Clean Energy Holdings, Inc. announced the appointments of Ms. Susan Anhalt and Ms. Phyllis Currie to its Board of Directors. The company is adding the two independent directors to broaden its board-level expertise and to move a step closer to achieving the requirements for a future Nasdaq stock listing. Ms. Anhalt brings over 25 years of depth and experience in M&A transactions and all legal aspects and challenges of high growth companies. She is the founding attorney at SLAE Inc. Prior to SLAE, Ms. Anhalt served as the General Counsel for The TPL Group, a tech incubator of microprocessor technologies for over 6 years. Her responsibilities included developing legal structures for expansion into numerous countries, developing and managing complex U.S. and non-U.S. tax structures, negotiating M&A transactions and managing patent protections and strategies for over 100 patents. Since 2016, Ms. Currie has served on the Board of Directors of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), which runs an energy market and manages transmission assets in 15 Midwest states and a Canadian province, serving as Board Chair for the past 3 years. Prior to 2016, Ms. Currie served as the General Manager of Pasadena Water and Power for over 14 years, leading the municipal entity into adding electric generation units and implemented upgrades to the city’s water and distribution systems. She also held the position of Chief Financial Officer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power overseeing the city’s annual operating and capital budgets. Ms. Currie was appointed as the Chair of the Audit Committee, to serve alongside Mr. Walker and Ms. Anhalt. Ms. Currie will also join Mr. Walker (the Chair) and Mr. Wentzel as a member of the Compensation Committee. In addition to her appointment to the Audit Committee, Ms. Anhalt will join Mr. Wentzel (Chair) as the two members of the Board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
Global Clean Energy Holdings, Inc. is a vertically integrated renewable fuels company. It specializes in the development and cultivation of camelina, a nonfood, regenerative, intermediate oilseed crop, which is used to produce advanced biofuels and biomaterials. Its farm-to-fuels value chain integration provides unrivaled access to reliable, ultra-low carbon feedstocks and is unparalleled in the sustainable fuel's industry. It has developed a portfolio of elite varieties of Camelina sativa to be used as a feedstock for its Renewable Fuels Facility. Its product includes Renewable Diesel, Biofuels Oil Feedstock and Biomass Feedstock. Renewable diesel is made from the same feedstocks as biodiesel. The feedstock oil is needed to produce renewable jet, biodiesel, renewable diesel and hydrotreated vegetable oil supplied from edible seed oils, including soy, canola, sunflower and palm. Camelina produces a co-product from the oil extraction process which is a non-transgenic high protein meal.