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Solazyme Announces New Vice President and General Manager of Health and Wellness
Geoffrey J. Brooks co-founder of Brooks Industries Joins the Solazyme Management Team
South San Francisco, CA – May 13, 2008 – Solazyme, Inc., a biotechnology company unleashing the power of aquatic microbes to create clean and scalable solutions for biofuel, industrial chemical, and health and wellness markets, today announced that it has named Geoffrey J. Brooks as Vice President and General Manager Health and Wellness. Mr. Brooks will lead Solazyme’s development and commercialization of novel ingredients and consumer products emerging from its core algal technology platform with applications in personal care and beauty products, nutritional supplements, and functional foods.
“We are excited about having Geoffrey join our team” said Jonathan Wolfson, chief executive officer of Solazyme. “His overwhelming technical and business expertise in the personal care industry combined with his knowledge of the role of specialty ingredients in human health and nutrition brings Solazyme the capabilities needed to rapidly commercialize our products in the health and wellness markets.”
Mr. Brooks is a recognized expert in the personal care industry. He has spent over 40 years developing new ingredients for cosmetics, hair care, and bath products as well as formulating and sensory testing of novel consumer products. He has helped develop and commercialize over 300 new cosmetic ingredients and formulated a wide range of cosmetic products some of which have become industry staples. Mr. Brooks was a co-founder of Brooks Industries and built it into a leading US cosmetics specialties company while serving as CTO for 17 years. After Brooks Industries was acquired by Arch Chemicals. Geoffrey remained on staff in a business development and new technology implementation role from 2000-2007.
“Solazyme has the most innovative approach imaginable to the production of renewable fuels, green chemistry, nutritional needs and cosmetics. The Phycoponic process is truly sustainable and one can literally “power” the planet with fuels and “fuel” its inhabitants with food. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to provide consumers with “nutracosmetics” that utilize the power of Solazyme’s micro-algae to improve their health and look and feel their best,” said Geoffrey Brooks.
Prior to Brooks Industries, Geoffrey spent 9 years at Croda and 8 years at Beecham Products in technical and marketing roles in the personal care area. Mr. Brooks holds a B.Sc. in Chemistry/Zoology from the University of London and belongs to the following professional associations: Society of Cosmetic Scientists (UK and USA), American Chemical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Society of Investigative Dermatology.
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About Solazyme:
Solazyme, Inc. is a synthetic biology company unleashing the power of aquatic microbes to create clean and scalable solutions for biofuel, industrial chemical, and health & wellness markets The company was founded in 2003 and has its headquarters in South San Francisco, Calif. For more information, please visit our website: http://www.solazyme.com.
For more inforamtion contact:
Jackie Kolek, Peppercom, 212-931-6166, jkolek@peppercom.com
Genet Garamendi, Solazyme, Inc., 650-963-5228, ggaramendi@solazyme.com
