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Elevance names board member Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc. has announced Steven Mills will join its board of directors. Mills is experienced in the fields of accounting, corporate finance, strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions. Mills He previously served as chief financial officer of Amyris Inc. and as senior executive vice president of performance and growth at Archer Daniels Midland Co. Dyadic appoints board member Dyadic International Inc. has appointed Michael Tarnok to its board of directors. He will also serve on the company’s audit and compensation committees. Tarnok has extensive experience in the pharmaceutical inTarnok
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dustry across many key areas including finance, operations and marketing. He is chairman and former interim CEO of Keryx Biopharmaceuticals Inc. and spent the majority of his career at Pfizer Inc.
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ABO announces executive director, new board members The Algae Biomass Organization has Metso announces security solution, announced the apsoftware improvements, new orders pointment of a new Metso has announced its security busiexecutive director and ness solution, which provides the necessary the election of eight safeguards to protect automation systems members to its board from attack by cyber threats and malware. The of directors. The ABO company’s security business solution includes has named Matthew regular assessments of the installations with Carr as executive direcaudits to identify and help eliminate vulnerabili- tor. He has more than Carr ties. Key risk mitigation techniques, includa decade of policy and ing firewalls and virtual private networks, are advocacy experience, supplemented with virus-protection software most recently serving custom configured to the automation system. as managing director Metso also recently announced its ExperTune of the industrial and PlantTriage software now performs continuenvironmental section ous assessments of the performance of model as the Biotechnology predictive controls (MPC). In addition, the Industry Organization. company announced it has been awarded four Newly elected board Lakeman repeat orders from CNIM group to supply members are Michael
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