Primary Job Title VP Strategic Relationships Primary Organization Cool Planet
Location San Diego, California, United States Regions Greater San Diego Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Rick Wilson joined Cool Planet in 2012. Wilson was President and CEO of Cobalt Technologies from 2008 through 20011, leading the company from laboratory R&D through to demonstration scale. His tenure at Cobalt culminated in the partnership with Solvay Rhodia to deploy the technology across South America for converting sugar cane bagasse at
sugar mills into n-butanol for chemicals and fuels.
Prior to Cobalt Wilson held a variety of strategic planning and commercial consulting roles from 2006 to 2008.
Wilson is a 17 year veteran of BP (Amoco). He led the turnaround of the $3.5 billion Global Derivatives chemical businesses sold to Ineos in 2005. He was Technical manager for the refining and fuels marketing group in Salt Lake City, Research Director for Hydroprocessing in Refining Technology, Manager of the Integrated Supply and Trading Business for the Australasia fuels business, and Commercial Manager (finance) for those businesses. His career began with a variety of engineering roles in Technology and Refining. Wilson holds a BA in Chemistry from UCSD, a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University, and an MBA (Honors) from the University of Chicago.
