Frederic Scheer
Frederic Scheer | |
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Born | Paris, France |
Occupation | entrepreneur, inventor |
Frederic Scheer is a French-American entrepreneur and inventor. He is the founder of multiple companies, including Interpart, Biodegradable Products Institute, Cereplast, Biocorp, and Alercell.[1][2][3][4][5][6] He has 15 US patents under his name in biotechnology.[7]
Early life and education
Scheer was born in Paris, France. He holds an MBA from Institut D’Etudes Politiques de Paris (1978) and doctorate in law from the University of Paris.[7][8][9]
Career
Scheer moved to the US in 1986 and became the youngest CFO of a NYSE company. He has participated in the restructuring of Montedison in Italy, a $23 billion oil and chemical group.[1][10][11][12]
He was the co-CEO and founder of Interpart SA (1983-1988) and the co-CEO of the Cannon Group (1987-1988).[13][14]
Scheer became involved in the biodegradable plastics industry in 1994 through Montedison SpA, a chemical conglomerate operating Novamont SpA, Scheer secured exclusive distribution rights in North America of Mater-Bi resins. Scheer terminated his distribution rights with Novamont in early 2000 to work on new resins patented by Cereplast.[15][16]
In 1997, Scheer founded the science-driven organization, Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) and remained its CEO until 2010.[17][18]
In 2001, he founded Cereplast, and held the position of CEO until 2014, a company that designs and makes sustainable plastics from the starch found in tapioca, corn, wheat, and potatoes.[19][20][21][22] Scheer was the supplier of all compostables bags and compostable utensils used by the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney.[23] He was the CEO of Biocorp and the Chairman of the Bioplastics Council of the Society of the Plastics Industry.[24]
In 2017, Scheer founded L6NRG, an independent oil and gas company concentrating on US-based oil and gas from the Rockies, where he is currently the CEO and Chairman.[8][25][26]
Since 2020, he has been the founder and CEO of Alercell, a biotechnology company specializing in delivering innovative in vitro rapid diagnostic tests.[7][27][28][29]
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- ^ a b L6NRG. "Welcome to L6NRG, an Oil & Gas Exploration Company". L6NRG. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
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- ^ "Industrial Goods, bio-plastic, Cereplast, Inc. (CERP-OTC: BB)". www.ceocfointerviews.com. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ^ "Cannon Rescuer Faces Criminal Charges in Italy". Los Angeles Times. 1987-06-09. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ^ Delugach, Al (1987-12-09). "CANNON GROUP UNVEILS PLAN TO REORGANIZE". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ^ "Cereplast to build new bioplastics manufacturing plant in Italy". plasticstoday.com. 2011-05-02. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ^ Bioeconomista, Il (2013-02-23). "Bioplastics made from algae: Cereplast incorporates Algaeplast". IL BIOECONOMISTA. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
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- ^ "Biodegradable Products Institute - About - OLD". www.bpiworld.org. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
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- ^ "With bioplastics, Cereplast aims to make consumer products sustainable". ZDNet. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ^ Montet, Virginie. "Potatoes, algae replace oil in US company's plastics". phys.org. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ^ Cohn, Lisa (2010-01-07). "Cutting fossil fuel use with bioplastics part 1". Microgrid Knowledge. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ^ "Biodegradable Products Enter Olympic Arena". Los Angeles Times. 2000-09-20. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
- ^ "Biodegradable plastics: Plant symbol chosen as icon". Los Angeles Times. 2011-04-22. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
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- ^ "ALERCELL Introduces COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test Clip and Antigen Test Collection Kits".
- ^ May 26; Diagnostics, 2022 | Molecular; Systems, Sequencing; Origin, Unknown; Types |, Other Cancer (2022-05-26). "Alercell Distributes DNA-Based HPV Test". Clinical Lab Products. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
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