Brian Goodall

Brian Goodall’s career spans Big Oil (Royal Dutch/Shell), Major Chemical companies (BFGoodrich, Rohm and Haas, Albemarle), Start-ups (Sapphire Energy) and privately held companies (Valicor). Brian’s experience covers the spectrum from invention and innovation (about 100 published US patents) to commercialization and business development. Brian has the innate ability to identify the market, the value and the opportunities for a potential new product or technology. Examples include the catalyst that is used to make almost 50% of the World’s polypropylene (Shell), BFGoodrich’s first new division in decades (Electronic Materials – sold to Sumitomo Bakelite), the Continental USA’s largest commercial algae farm (Valicor/Qualitas) producing the vital omega-3, EPA in a new high value, highly bioavailable form.

Brian has led the internal innovation programs at 2 major companies, and raised $130 million in funding from various Federal agencies. Landmark contributions in the Renewables space include his key contributions to the first non-petroleum-derived jet fuel to fly on a commercial jet (Virgin Atlantic February 2008 – from coconut oil) and the first US flight (Continental Airlines, January 2009 – from algae oil).