Olaf F. Walter

Dr. Walter is the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Mission Manager, Inc. and its parent company, Vigilys, Inc. Dr. Walter has more than twenty-six years of global management experience, mainly at The Dow Chemical Company, where from 1985 until 2005 he was responsible for a wide variety of business operations, most recently as Senior Technology Leader of Manufacturing and Engineering for Dow‘s Industrial Biotechnology Business. Since 2005, Dr. Walter has utilized his expertise by consulting mostly for entrepreneurial enterprises, assisting them in developing and implementing business strategies. Dr. Walter’s expertise spans fermentation technologies; whole plant-derived bio-production, water and wastewater treatment technologies, chemical manufacturing, process development, business and competitive analysis, sophisticated economic modeling as well as biomass to energy technologies. Dr. Walter serves as a strategic advisor for iNOVO, a Lewes, Delaware based specialized distribution management company, for PivotPoint Strategists, a company headquartered in Easton, Maryland, specializing in market research, strategic positioning, planning and communication and for the Equinox Center in San Diego, a non-profit organization which researches and advances innovative solutions to balance regional growth with their finite natural resources. Further, he serves as a business and scientific advisor to two companies, diverse, a San Diego biotechnology company focused on novel gene technology, and Assure Controls Inc., a Vista, California-based company specializing in rapid toxicity assessment of water.

Dr. Walter was educated as a chemical engineer in Germany and earned his Ph.D. in Public Health Engineering from Portsmouth Polytechnic in the U.K.