Carl Williams

Lyondell Chemical Co. manufactures and distributes chemicals & plastics, produces fuel products, and refines heavy & high-sulfur crude oil. The company operates in four segments: Ethylene Co-Products and Derivatives, Propylene Oxide & Related Products, Refining, and Inorganic Chemicals. The company's products are used in the clothing, food packaging, household furnishings, automotive parts, construction, home-building materials, paints, and coating industries. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Riverstone Holdings LLC operates as an energy focused investment manager. It conducts buyout and growth capital investments in the exploration and production, midstream, oilfield services, power, and renewable sectors of the energy industry. The company was founded by David Matthew Leuschen and Pierre Fernard Lapeyre, Jr. in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

CNAA - National Sugarcane and Alcohool Company is an enterprise in the sugarcane sector which works to produce clean renewable fuel. With units in the states of Minas Gerais and Goiás, CNAA is controlled by the Sugarcane and Alcohol Investment and Participation Fund, made up of investment funds from Carlyle/Riverstone, Goldman Sachs, Discovery Capital, Global Foods and DiMaio Ahmad. There are 3 CNAA production units. The units in Ituiutaba-MG and Itumbiara-GO are already in operation, each one with a processing capacity of 2.5 million tons of sugarcane per year. These units are focused on producing VHP and crystal sugar, Anidro and hydrated alcohol, as well as producing electrical energy from sugarcane bagasse. The unit in Campina Verde-MG is foreseen to begin production in 2010. CNAA was projected to offer state-of-the-art technology and differentiated practices both in the production of clean renewable fuel as well as in the relationship with its collaborators and the communities in the regions where they work. Among their differentials is mechanized harvesting, high industrial efficiency, an economical sustainability, social and environmental, privileged logistics and the use of state-of-the-art equipment, such as diffusers instead of milling, guaranteeing scales and optimizing resources.

Enviva LP provides woody biomass to industrial-scale customers. It supplies wood pellets and other processed woody biomass fuels to serve power generation and industrial customers seeking to decrease their dependence on fossil fuels. The firm offers wood pellets, which are energy dense, low moisture, uniformly-sized wood fuels and wood chips, which are made out of low grade wood and waste materials that are left over after a primary harvest. The company was founded by Norb Hintz in 2004 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

ReEnergy Holdings LLC provides waste/biomass renewable energy services. Its services include health and safety, compliance, financial oversight, Management, counterparty relations, operational optimization and stakeholder engagement. The company was founded by Thomas E. Beck, William Ralston , Gregory Leahey and Larry Richardson in August 2008 and is headquartered in Latham, NY.

Part of C/R Energy Jade LLC, Sapphire Power Holdings LLC operates natural gas fired power generation projects. The private company is based in Austin, TX.