Dr. Stephen W. Fitzpatrick Ph.D., M.I.Ch.E, C.Eng. – Biofine Technology LLC - Short Biography Dr. Fitzpatrick is a recognized expert in conversion of cellulosic feedstocks to renewable fuels and chemicals. He is inventor of the Biofine process for refining of lignocellulosic biomass and chief executive of Biofine Technology LLC and Biofine Developments Northeast Inc., companies dedicated to the commercial application of the Biofine technology for sustainable production of fuels and chemicals. For over twenty years, Dr. Fitzpatrick was president of Biometics Inc a Boston, MA-based consulting, engineering and construction management company primarily involved in scale-up, design and construction of first-of-a-kind manufacturing facilities for production of vaccines and novel therapeutic biologics. Biometics Inc. was purchased in 2015 by the DPS Engineering Group, Dublin, Ireland. Dr. Fitzpatrick’s earlier industrial experience as a chemical engineer in the UK was with Proctor and Gamble, Sterling Health, Rohm and Haas and Shell Chemicals. In 1981 he moved to the U.S. and worked for Badger Engineers, Cambridge, MA and Carlson Associates, Wayland, MA before co-founding Biometics. Dr. Fitzpatrick was born in Manchester, UK. He holds a Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees in chemical and biochemical engineering from the University of Manchester, UK and is a chartered engineering member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (UK). He is also a member of the American Institution of Chemical Engineers and the American Chemical Society. He is the 1999 winner of the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award and recipient of the 1972 Manchester University Dista Prize in Biochemical engineering. He holds several patents and has authored various publications on renewable fuels and chemicals and production of biological therapeutics. Dr. Fitzpatrick has four adult children, six grandchildren and lives in Brookline, Massachusetts with his wife, Kathy and their little dog Toby.