Dr. Thomas A. Butcher is the Technical Director of the National Oilheat Research Alliance and has over 40 years of experience in combustion and building energy systems research. Over the course of his career Tom has been heavily involved with research at Brookhaven Lab and the liquid fuels industry. His areas of focus include heat and mass transfer in novel energy conversion systems; storage, handling and combustion of alternative biofuels; and efficiency and air pollutant emission measurements.

Gina Fioroni is the group manager for the Fuels and Combustion Sciences group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Fioroni joined NREL in 2009 and has worked in the fuels performance area, designing, and conducting experiments to analyze the quality and chemistry of alternative and low net-carbon fuels for the difficult-to-electrify aviation, marine, long-haul trucking, and rail sectors.

Fioroni received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Westfield State University, Westfield, Massachusetts, and a master’s degree in organic chemistry from the University of Vermont in Burlington.

Chris Sharp is an Institute Engineer in the Diesel Engine and Emissions R&D Department at Southwest Research Institute. He has been at SwRI for the past 33 years, where he has been involved in numerous programs related to integration of advanced aftertreatment systems on diesel and natural gas engines, for both on-highway and nonroad engines.

Sharp also has a strong focus on measurement methodology and is involved in the development of methods and procedures to characterize low level emissions from advanced technology engines.  He is also currently leading program efforts, under way at SwRI since 2014, to demonstrate technologies for achieving very low heavy-duty on-highway and nonroad tailpipe NOX emission levels.

Sharp received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1990. He is an SAE Fellow and has twice been awarded the John Johnson Award for Outstanding Research in Diesel Engines.”

Steve Howell is a principle in M4 Consulting, a firm dedicated to the development of industrial products from agriculture. Howell currently serves as the Chair of the ASTM Biodiesel Task Force for biodiesel standards, a position he has held since 1994. He currently serves as the Senior Technical Advisor for Clean Fuels Alliance America, working closely with Technical Director Scott Fenwick. Howell is the only person who has ever been selected as a Fellow of both ASTM International and the American Oil Chemist Society.

Greg Anderson is a fifth generation family farmer from Nebraska.  He actively lives the definition of sustainability, farming land that his great, great, grandfather homesteaded in 1873.

Anderson is currently a director on the Nebraska Soybean Board where he has served in various leadership positions, including being chairman.  He was appointed by three different U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture to the United Soybean Board, where he served as chairman and was on the executive committee for seven of his nine years. Anderson is currently a member of Clean Fuels Alliance America’s Governing Board.

Anderson attended Northwestern College in St. Paul, Minnesota.