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Gevo Announces Appointment of Angelo Amorelli to Board of Directors
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Oct. 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) is pleased to announce that Angelo Amorelli, PhD, has been appointed to its
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[{"type":"text","content":"ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Oct. 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) is pleased to announce that Angelo Amorelli, PhD, has been appointed to its Board of Directors. Dr. Amorelli retired recently from bp, where he held leadership, development, and innovation roles for 35 years. “We are honored to have Angelo join our Board of Directors,” said Dr. Patrick Gruber, CEO of Gevo. “We believe his innovation and technology experience at bp, specifically his efforts to champion bp’s strategy around renewable energy and advanced biofuels, will provide significant benefit to Gevo’s growth, including our billion-gallon sustainable aviation fuel production goal and our growing renewable natural gas business.”In his time at bp, Dr Amorelli held a variety of roles focused on the development of clean fuels. He was considered one of the company’s leading technical experts in clean-energy technologies, including wind, biofuels, low-carbon power, and hydrogen applications. He is a Cambridge University graduate in Natural Sciences and holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Wales – Cardiff. Dr. Amorelli is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. “I bring passion to all of my activities and combine creativity with execution and strategic thinking with operational management,” said Amorelli. \"What excites me most about Gevo is the wide variety of technological solutions that must be orchestrated together to optimize product success. This is a new frontier of clean energy development, and to see it all coming together from the vantage point of this board will be thrilling.” The addition of Angelo Amorelli to the Gevo Board of Directors is effective as of October 15, 2023. About GevoGevo’s mission is to transform renewable energy and carbon into energy-dense liquid hydrocarbons. These liquid hydrocarbons can be used for drop-in transportation fuels such as gasoline, jet fuel and diesel fuel, that when burned have potential to yield net-zero greenhouse gas emissions when measured across the full life cycle of the products. Gevo uses low-carbon renewable resource-based carbohydrates as raw materials, and is in an advanced state of developing renewable electricity and renewable natural gas for use in production processes, resulting in low-carbon fuels with substantially reduced carbon intensity (the level of greenhouse gas emissions ...