Dr. John Hannon started his career in oil exploration with Schlumberger and then migrated into sustainable fuel and chemical spaces (focusing on green jet fuel and chemicals) and the sustainable food spaces (focusing on agricultural and cellular sources of proteins and fats). His expertise is in process economics, scale-up, technical due diligence, life cycle analysis and identifying critical technical areas for cost improvements. He has served as an independent technical and life cycle due diligence expert for a number of investment firms and federal agencies in renewable energy and food spaces. He holds a PhD in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College and BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University.