Mark Herrema

Mark Herrema is the co-founder and CEO of Newlight Technologies. In 2003, Mark co-founded Newlight with Kenton Kimmel with a vision of using greenhouse gas as a resource to make high-performance sustainable materials. Newlight has been honored to receive industry recognition as “Biomaterial of the Year” by the Nova Institute, “Innovation of the Year” by Popular Science, and “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum. In 2016, Newlight was awarded the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Mark graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, and has since garnered 17 years of experience in process engineering, polymer functionalization, and strategic business development.