Brad Wilson joined the Western Iowa team in 2011 as the Chief Financial Officer and was named Western Iowa Energy’s Vice President in early 2012 and Executive Vice President in late 2014. He was voted to the Iowa Biodiesel Board in 2013 and served as the organization’s chair from 2019 – 2022. He serves as the director and in leadership positions for the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association.

Wilson began his career in the Agribusiness industry with Gardiner & Company, CPAs as a financial auditor, auditing farmer-owned cooperatives across the central U.S. Since then, he’s worked as an Internal Auditor and Business Analyst with West Central Cooperative in Ralston, Iowa. While at WCC, he spearheaded accounting and finance functions for the company’s network of biodiesel plants.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from the University of Central Oklahoma and a Master of Business Administration degree from Iowa State University. He and his wife, Brandy, have seven children and two grandchildren.

Colin Huwyler (pronounced High-Ler) is the CEO and founder of Optimus Technologies, a Pittsburgh-based clean-technology company decarbonizing the hardest-to-abate segment of transportation: heavy-duty diesel engines. Optimus has developed and commercialized the Vector System, a patented bolt-on fuel system upgrade that enables both new and existing diesel engines to operate on 100% biodiesel (B100), delivering near-zero carbon emissions without sacrificing performance or reliability.

Under Colin’s leadership, Optimus has deployed more than a thousand systems across commercial and municipal fleets logging over 150 million real-world miles. Colin has positioned Optimus as a leader in the low-carbon transition making biodiesel a practical decarbonization pathway at scale.

Colin holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, is an inventor with multiple patents in advanced fuel and powertrain technologies, and serves as a Director of the Clean Fuels Alliance Foundation.

Jill Hamilton is President of Sustainable Energy Strategies, Inc. (SESI). She has more than 30 years of providing fundraising and business development consulting for the alternative transportations fuels industry. Over the past 26 years, Jill and her team have raised more than a billion dollars to expand the biofuels industry. She is a key consultant to Clean Fuels Alliance America and her team helps support the Clean Fuels Foundation. She is also a trusted advisor to the National Clean Cities Program and Chair of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition. She will discuss funding opportunities that could benefit your company.