Tom is Co-President and Director of First Green Partners, a venture capital firm focused on early stage investments in technologies related to energy, chemicals, advanced materials, and agriculture. Tom has spent the past 20 years working with venture backed start-ups as a venture capitalist and a research analyst. He currently serves as a board member for First Green portfolio companies Monolith Materials, Rivertop Renewables, Digital H2O, and Trelys.

Barry Penney leverages his 30 years of industry experience as part of the SK investing and operational team. He supports the SK managed businesses in a variety of operational and supply chain areas such as project management, raw material optimization, process configuration, etc. Additionally, he assesses the operational and supply chain capabilities / opportunities for potential acquisitions as part of the investment diligence process.

George Huber is the Harvey Spangler Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He and David Sudolsky were co-founders of Anellotech. His research focus is on developing new catalytic processes for the production of renewable liquid fuels and chemicals. In 2015 Thomson Reuters listed George as a “highly cited researcher” which indicates that he is “one of the “world’s most influential scientific minds” who rank in the top 1%. He has been named one of the top 100 people in bioenergy by Biofuels Digest for the past 3 years.