Management Team

 

Jonathan S. Wolfson
Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Wolfson is a co-founder of the Company and our Chief Executive Officer. Prior to founding Solazyme, Mr. Wolfson held a variety of positions in finance, business and law including at Triarc, and serving as co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of InvestorTree. Immediately prior to Solazyme, he was the Vice President of Finance and Business Development for 7thOnline, a supply chain software company.

Mr. Wolfson is an active participant in many advisory groups, including sitting on the board of the Center for American Progress (CAP) Clean Tech Council. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and is on the governing board of BIO’s Industrial and Environmental Section. Additionally, Mr. Wolfson sits on the supervisory board of Avantium, a renewable chemicals company, and on the Executive Council for the Advanced Biofuels Association (ABFA).

In September of 2009, Mr. Wolfson accepted the “Green Leap” award from the Clinton Global Initiative for his commitment to commercializing Solazyme’s breakthrough technology for renewable oil production for fuel and for food. He is also an inventor on five of Solazyme’s patent applications.

Mr. Wolfson holds J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the NYU School of Law and the NYU Stern School of Business. Additionally, he spent several years as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics at Hunter College of the City University of New York.

Harrison F. Dillon, Ph.D.
President

Dr. Dillon is a co-founder of Solazyme and our President. Dr. Dillon is a thought leader in the renewables field, sitting on a number of Advisory Boards. He is an inventor on over 30 of Solazyme’s patents and patent applications and he oversees Solazyme's extensive IP portfolio.

Dr. Dillon’s scientific training in the field of microbial genetics began in the Microbiology and Immunology Department at Emory University. His later research was performed in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah, where he received his Ph.D. in genetics. Dr. Dillon went on to manage the biotechnology patent portfolio of the University of Utah in the University’s Technology Transfer Office. Dr. Dillon received a J.D. from Duke University School of Law and is licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He’s a member of the State Bar of California and was an Associate in the Biotechnology Group at Townsend and Townsend and Crew. Dr. Dillon has authored articles in scientific, business, and legal journals.

Tyler W. Painter
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Painter has served as our Chief Financial Officer since October 2007. From 2001 to 2007, Mr. Painter served as VP Finance/Investor Relations and Corporate Treasurer for Wind River Systems, a public software company that has subsequently been acquired by Intel (NASDAQ: INTC). Prior to joining Wind River Systems, Mr. Painter held a variety of positions in finance at CarsDirect (NASDAQ: INET), an online automobile sales company, and at Gap, Inc. (NYSE: GPS), a retail clothing company. Mr. Painter obtained Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. He is actively involved with a number of professional affiliations, including the Association of Financial Professionals and the National Investor Relations Institute.

Peter J. Licari
Chief Technology Officer

Dr. Licari is our Chief Technology Officer. He has over 20 years experience in biochemical engineering and bioprocessing. From 1998 to 2008, Dr. Licari served as Senior Vice President, Manufacturing and Operations for Kosan Biosciences, a biopharmaceutical company. From 1993 to 1996, Dr. Licari served as the Director of Vaccine Manufacturing and Development at Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories, a part of the University of Massachusetts, an academic institution. Prior to joining Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories, Dr. Licari had a variety of research positions at BASF and Merck & Co. Dr. Licari obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and obtained a M.B.A. from Pepperdine University.

Jean-Marc Rotsaert
Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Rotsaert has served as Chief Operating Officer of Solazyme since October 2012. Prior to Solazyme, Mr. Rotsaert served at AAK as President and CEO of the U.S. business. The profits of the U.S. business more than quadrupled over his tenure in the midst of the global financial crisis.  Prior to his work with AAK, Mr. Rotsaert was Vice President of Science and Technology at Campbell's Soup. Before that, he was Vice President of Research and Development at Pepsico International (UK and Ireland) where he was a main operating board member accountable for the management of a $2 billion business unit. In addition, he was functionally accountable for new product development, product quality, productivity, product and consumer insights (market research team and analytical laboratories), regulatory compliance, and consumer services and nutrition across multiple food brands of the Pepsico portfolio. Before his time at Pepsico, Mr. Rotsaert was a Managing Director/Program Manager at The Coca-Cola Company where he transformed an R&D group from cost to profit center in the U.S. Jean-Marc is fluent in English, French, Italian and proficient in Dutch. He holds an advanced degree (US masters equivalent) in Electrical Engineering from the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium, where he graduated cum laude and attended a program tailored to Pepsico Senior Management at the IMD Business School in Switzerland.

Rogerio Manso
Chief Commercialization Officer, Tailored Oils

Mr. Manso has served as our Chief Commercialization Officer for our tailored oils technology platform since July 2011. Mr. Manso's responsibilities encompass global commercialization of our sugar-to-oils technology across the entire value chain from feedstock through customer development and product distribution. Prior to joining Solazyme, Mr. Manso served in various leadership positions at Petrobras throughout his 28-year career at the Brazilian oil and gas major, with a robust record in the development of markets for Brazilian oils and oil products in the US, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and other key international markets. He became Petrobras' Downstream Director and member of the Executive Committee, with responsibility over Refining and Marketing, Petrochemicals, Transportation and Logistics, where he implemented a multi-billion US$ refinery investment program. Among others, Mr. Manso served as a member of the board of directors of the chemical companies Petroquisa and Copesul (now a part of Braskem). He was also a member of Petrobras' R&D Committee, of BM&F Bovespa's Sugar and Ethanol Advisory Board, and Chairman of the Board of joint-venture refinery Refap S.A. and TBG, Bolivia-Brazil's gas pipeline.

After leaving Petrobras in 2007, Mr. Manso joined the start-up Brazilian Renewable Energy Company-Brenco, now ETH Bioenergia, as the Executive Vice President of Commercial and Logistics, and later became its Chief Operating Officer.

Mr. Manso has an undergraduate degree in civil engineering, and earned an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business.

Frederic Stoeckel
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Health Sciences

Mr. Stoeckel is Senior Vice President, Health Sciences at Solazyme. Since joining the company in February 2010, Mr. Stoeckel has led the development, launch and marketing strategy for Algenist, Solazyme's microalgae-based luxury skincare line. Algenist is now available in over 1000 stores worldwide including Sephora, Sephora inside jcpenney, Space NK, QVC, and The Shopping Channel.

From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Stoeckel served as Vice President, Marketing & Merchandising at L’Occitane, where he headed the department for the US market. Shortly after, he served as Managing Director at Melvita, a new certified French organic skincare brand by L’Occitane. He managed the US launch strategy for Melvita and implemented the full range of operational marketing strategy until 2010.

Prior to joining L’Occitane, Mr. Stoeckel held a variety of marketing positions at L’Oreal Group (Euronext: OR), and most recently was the Vice President of Marketing at Lancome France for 4 years. He led the Lancome operational marketing division including trade marketing, direct marketing, media, website, and merchandising, where he defined and implemented the marketing and communication strategy across all product segments for all of the retail channels.

Paul T. Quinlan
Senior Vice President & General Counsel

Mr. Quinlan has served as our General Counsel since May 2010 and as our Secretary since June 2010. From 2005 to 2010, Mr. Quinlan was General Counsel at Metabolex, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company. From 2000 to 2005, Mr. Quinlan held various positions in the legal department at Maxygen, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAXY), a biopharmaceutical company, most recently that of Chief Corporate Securities Counsel. Prior to joining Maxygen, Mr. Quinlan was an associate at Cooley LLP, a law firm, and Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, a law firm. Mr. Quinlan obtained a law degree from Columbia University Law School and a M.Sc. in Medical Biophysics from the University of Toronto.

Jane Marvin
Senior Vice President Human Resources

Jane Marvin is our Senior Vice President of Human Resources. Since March 2012, Jane has been leading the development of Solazyme’s people systems to guide the rapidly growing company through its critical expansion phase. Marvin brings more than 25 years of experience in both human resources and organization development. Before coming to Solazyme, she served as an independent Human Resources Consultant specializing in organizational alignment, transformation and change management.  From 2005 to 2011, Marvin was Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Ross Stores, Inc. Prior to Ross, Marvin was Executive Vice president of Human Resources for AT&T Wireless in Seattle Washington, where she led the HR organization from separation of the company from AT&T in 2001 through its acquisition by Cingular Wireless in 2005. Before joining AT&T Wireless, she was Executive Vice President of Human Resources for Covad Communications.

Marvin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Sussex in England and a MBA from the University of Michigan Business School.

Mark Warner
Senior Vice President of Engineering

Mr. Mark Warner is our Senior Vice President of Engineering. Mr. Warner is a registered professional engineer with 25 years of broad-ranging business, technical, and management experience in renewable energy projects and chemical plant operations. Warner possesses the technological expertise and management skills required to lead Solazyme through this critical phase of expansion to commercial capacity. Prior to joining Solazyme, he served as Senior Vice President of Process industries for Harris Group. His responsibilities encompassed renewable energy commercialization for cellulosic ethanol and algal based fuel and chemical commercialization.  From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Warner served as Vice President of Engineering for Imperium Renewables, where he oversaw the largest biodiesel production facility constructed in the United States.  He has actively led site selection, regulatory compliance, permitting, engineering, and project funding efforts for facilities at both U.S. and international sites.  Mr. Warner obtained a Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering from Washington State University.