Leading renewable chemicals and fuels company Amyris made a statement yesterday announcing the appointment of R. Neil Williams, Chief Financial Officer of Intuit, to Amyris’s Board of Directors. He was also appointed to the Chair of the Audit Committee.
“We are pleased with the addition of Neil to our Board. He brings extensive financial, corporate strategy and execution experience to help us build on our strategic direction and momentum,” commented John Melo, President & CEO of Amyris. “We are pleased Patrick Pichette, who served on our board for the last three years, has agreed to stay as a member of our strategic advisory board.”
Neil Williams stated, “I look forward to supporting Amyris’s cutting edge technology development and growth-strategy execution. Amyris’s synthetic biology platform, now operating at industrial scale in Brazil, offers considerable opportunities across a broad range of renewable chemical and fuel applications.”
With a thirty-year career in the financial services industry, Williams has held the role of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Intuit since 2008. He oversaw all financial aspects of Intuit, including corporate strategy and business development, investor relations, financial operations, as well as real estate. Prior to Intuit, Williams held the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Visa U.S.A., Inc. He led all financial functions for the company and its subsidiaries, including financial planning, business planning, and all financial monitoring. His career history includes banking experience and senior financial positions at commercial banks in the Southern and Midwest regions of the United States. A certified public accountant, Williams received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Southern Mississippi.
Amyris’s Board of Directors is now currently composed of its Chairman, Arthur Levinson, Chairman of Apple Inc. and Genentech, Inc.; Ralph Alexander, Managing Director at Riverstone Holdings, LLC; Philippe Boisseau, President, Supply-Marketing and New Energies divisions and a member of the Executive Committee of Total S.A.; Nam-Hai Chua, Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology at Rockefeller University; John Doerr, Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Geoffrey Duyk, Partner at TPG Biotech; John Melo; Carole Piwnica, Director of Naxos UK; Fernando Reinach, Managing Partner of Pitanga Fund; HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar and its newest addition R. Neil Williams.
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