40 people who are redefining green
Jack Newman
Art: Nat Damm
Jack Newman
Cofounder and Senior Vice President of Research, Amyris
Berkeley, Calif.
He may look like an amiable Deadhead, but Jack Newman, 44—that would be Dr. Newman to you—is a Berkeley microbiologist who cofounded Amyris, a start-up that went from bioengineering a microbe to produce an anti-malarial drug to genetically tweaking a bug to excrete biodiesel (crazy, right?). Amyris, which has a pilot project under way in Brazil, is backed by high-profile Silicon Valley venture capitalists.
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