– USA, CA – Alto Ingredients, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALTO), a leading producer and distributor of specialty alcohols, renewable fuels, and essential ingredients, named Gilbert Nathan Chair alongside Dianne Nury as Vice-Chair of the board of directors. The company also announced the elections of Alan Tank and Jeremy Bezdek to its Board of Directors at the AGM on June 25th.
About Jeremy T. Bezdek
Jeremy Bezdek is an accomplished senior executive with three decades of experience in leadership, business development, M&A, strategy execution, project development, investment origination, finance, and commercial roles across the energy, renewables, and advanced manufacturing sectors. He has large company and startup experience and served on ten boards of directors, both public and private, since 2010. As president and founder of Ad Astra Advisors, Jeremy Bezdek provides strategic advisory services, guiding companies through strategy, complex transactions, growth, fundraising, and organizational priorities.
Jeremy Bezdek spent 26 years with Koch Industries in a variety of finance and commercial leadership roles, including managing director of Koch Strategic Platforms, an investment arm of Koch Investment Group. In that role, he led investments in the energy transition vertical for Koch Strategic Platforms. He spent most of his career at a Koch subsidiary Flint Hills Resources where he directed multi-billion-dollar investments and transformative growth initiatives. Under his leadership, the team was very active in acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures, as well as making multiple investments in early-stage development companies related to refining, biofuel, and chemicals industries.
Jeremy Bezdek has a B.S. in Business Administration, concentration in finance, from the University of Kansas.
About Alan Tank
Alan R. Tank brings more than three decades of executive leadership and board experience across the agriculture, food, and renewable energy sectors. Since 2024, he has served as an advisor to Mercator Partners, an asset management platform that invests in decarbonization opportunities. Since 2022, he has served as an advisor to Eion Corp, a carbon capture and removal company. Since 2017, he has served as an executive advisor to Blue Sea Capital, a private equity firm focusing on the industrial growth, aerospace, and healthcare sectors. Since 2015, he has co-owned and managed Tank Brothers Farm/Tank Customs, his family farm in eastern Iowa, as its managing member. Until 2016, Alan Tank served as CEO and managing partner of Revolution Energy Solutions, a company he co-founded in 2006 that developed, owned, and operated renewable energy/waste-to-energy projects on agricultural platforms in the US. In 2001, he also founded AgCert International, a world leader in the production and sale of agriculturally derived greenhouse gas emission reductions used to satisfy the Kyoto Protocol and European Union Emission Trading Scheme requirements, and served as CEO until 2005. He serves on the board of WestMET Group and Victory Hemp Foods.
Alan Tank holds a B.S. in Animal Science from Iowa State University.
About Alto Ingredients, Inc.
Alto Ingredients, Inc. is a leading producer and distributor of specialty alcohols, renewable fuel, and essential ingredients. Leveraging the unique qualities of its facilities, the company serves customers in a wide range of consumer and commercial products in the Health, Home & Beauty; Food & Beverage; Industry & Agriculture; Essential Ingredients; and Renewable Fuels markets.
For more information: https://www.altoingredients.com/
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