SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May. 6, 2009--
Piper Jaffray Investment Management chief science advisor, Doug Cameron,
will be awarded the 2009 Raphael Katzen Award on Wednesday night at the
31st Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals. The
award recognizes an individual who has made distinguished contributions
to enable and further the deployment and commercialization of
biotechnology to produce fuels and chemicals from renewable sources.
Cameron joined Piper Jaffray as chief science advisor in September 2008,
and is part of the firm’s global franchise in renewable energy and clean
technology. He joined Piper Jaffray from Khosla Ventures, where as chief
scientific officer, he led technical due diligence for many of the
firm’s clean technology investments. He was on the board of directors
and the scientific advisory boards of Gevo, LS9, Mascoma, Segetis,
Lanzatech, Kior and Draths, and had senior management roles in several
of these companies.
“Doug has been a critical proponent and leading expert in the deployment
and commercialization of biotechnology as a source of producing fuels
and chemicals as renewable sources, and this award captures his
contributions in this important field,” said Jim McMillan, manager of
biorefining process R&D at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Cameron earned a Ph.D. in biochemical engineering from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, where he did research on microbial fermentation
for the production of fuels and chemicals. He graduated magna cum laude
from Duke University with a bachelor’s of science and engineering degree
in biomedical engineering.
The Raphael Katzen Award is named in the honor of Dr. Raphael Katzen,
who is a pioneer in commercializing technologies for converting
renewable feedstocks into fuels and chemicals.
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leading, international middle market investment bank and institutional
securities firm, serving the needs of middle market corporations,
private equity groups, public entities, nonprofit clients and
institutional investors. Founded in 1895, Piper Jaffray provides a
comprehensive set of products and services, including equity and debt
capital markets products; public finance services; mergers and
acquisitions advisory services; high-yield and structured products;
institutional equity and fixed-income sales and trading; and equity and
high-yield research. Piper Jaffray headquarters are located in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, with offices across the U.S. and in London, Hong
Kong and Shanghai. Piper Jaffray & Co. is the firm's principal operating
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