California Clean Innovation Conference 2009

CACI 2009 Panelist

_________________________________________ Kirk haney CEO, SG Biofuels _________________________________________

 

Kirk Haney is the CEO of SG Biofuels, Inc., a sustainable plant oil company with operations in San Diego, CA and Latin America specializing in the development of Jatropha as a low-cost, sustainably produced oil serving the global energy market. SG Biofuels cultivates Jatropha and harvests the fruit to produce crude plant oil to be used in biodiesel, energy or plastics.

Kirk has a successful track record developing sustainable, for profit projects, and extensive experience in both established and start-up companies. As President of Green Millennium, Kirk successfully built and scaled an institutionally-backed sustainable forestry company from start-up to over 100 employees. Kirk’s role consisted of managing all aspects of the business including strategy, operations and finance. Green Millennium’s mission is to initiate and manage precious wood reforestation programs in Central America. Thousands of hectares of land that were devastated by years of deforestation have been reclaimed by Green Millennium and returned to their original state, forest.

Kirk has held senior and executive management positions for 3Com Corporation, ArrowPoint Communications (acquired by Cisco Systems), Cisco Systems and Green Millennium, Ltd. At ArrowPoint, he held general management responsibility for the Western area. In this role, Kirk built and led an organization that grew revenue from $0 to an $80 million run-rate. This was critical for ArrowPoint’s ability to go public in March of 2000 and Cisco’s $5.9 billion acquisition. In addition to leading several of Cisco’s enterprise and advanced technology organizations, Kirk was instrumental in creating Cisco’s global security sales strategy, which resulted in Cisco surpassing $1 billion in security sales. Kirk was also an advisor to Cisco’s Corporate Business Development team on various investment and acquisition candidates.

Kirk serves on the board of SG Biofuels, is Chairman of the Board of Cloud Break Advisors, Inc., a Latin American investment firm and he is Chairman of the Board of Green Millennium, Ltd., a sustainable forestry company.

Kirk holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and is fluent in Spanish and German.