Subject: Fw: Jim Mennell
From: "Mary Gade" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Mark O'Malley" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:42:35 -0800 (PST)

Hunter--Mark asked me to forward on the bio for my colleague and friend, Jim 
Mennell.  Hope all is well!  Best, Mary
 
Mary A. Gade
>GADE ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP, LLC
>444 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 3600
>Chicago, IL  60611
>Phone: 608.669.8040
>email: [email-masked]
>

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Jim Mennell

Jim Mennell has spent the last eighteen years as a developer, board member, 
investor and attorney for more than fifty successful and currently operational 
renewable energy projects in the United States including biomass, gasification, 
waste-to-energy, ethanol (conventional and cellulosic), and wind energy.  
Currently, Jim is President of Renewafuel LLC--a next-generation biomass fuel 
producer and subsidiary of Cliffs Natural Resources (NYSE: CLF)--where he 
focuses on strategy, product and facility development, and production and 
marketing of renewable fuel products.  Jim also is the founder and Managing 
Partner of the Environmental Law Group in Minneapolis which provides strategic 
counsel on environmental and energy matters to major commodities and bioenergy 
companies such as Cargill and POET.  Jim also currently serves on the Board of 
Directors of biofuels, green software, and wind energy companies.  Prior to 
forming the Environmental Law Group in 2000, Mennell was a partner at 
Oppenheimer, Wolff and Donnelly in Minneapolis. 

Jim has authored dozens of articles, regularly speaks on environmental and 
energy issues, and has taught at several law schools.  Jim also is the lead 
inventor on two significant patent pending biofuel technologies.  Jim graduated 
University Scholar (highest honor) from the University of South Dakota, received 
his Juris Doctor degree, with honors, from Duke University, and also has a 
Masters Degree in English from Duke University.