Joseph J. James is founder and President of Agri-Tech Producers, LLC (ATP), a black-owned, small business involved in developing and holding innovative technologies and processes which cost-effectively grow and use special bio-crops to capture extraordinary amounts of CO 2, per acre, per year, and then converts their and other forms of biomass into various bio-products. He has also founded several, state-based operating affiliates, which are specializing in certain aspects or applications of the following technologies and processes. Mr. James has devised a now-patented, Combined Remediation Biomass and Bio-Product Production (CRBBP) Process, by which one plants and then uses special bio-crops, to cost-effectively capture exceedingly large amounts of CO 2, using photosynthesis, and to simultaneously remediate contaminated air, soils and water, using their enhanced phytoremediation capabilities; then converts the resulting biomass into various, cost-advantaged, circular economy bio-products, like biochar, or a bio-based alternative to carbon black filler powders. Mr. James has also licensed and/or invented innovative and patented or patentable biomass carbonization technologies, which convert plant and woody biomass into a variety of bio-products, including: bio-based fillers or extender powders, which are used to make stronger, lighter and water-resistant composites, plastics and tires; biochar, to sequester captured Carbon and increase soil productivity; a cleaner and safer, bio-based alternative to coal or wood-based charcoal cooking fuel, used in 3rd World countries; and a bio-coal, which can be co-fired in coal-fired power plants, with minimal equipment upgrades, to proportionately reduce their GHG and chemical pollution emissions. Mr. James is demonstrating these innovations and developing customers through strategically focused and located operating affiliates. Mr. James has had an impressive, 33-year career as an economic development professional, often heavily involved in technology-led development. He serves in his second term as a Secretarial appointee on the federal Biomass R&D Technical Advisory Committee and is a member of the Clean Energy Business Network. He has been a Governor’s appointee on the South Carolina Climate, Energy and Commerce Advisory Committee and is also one of the founding members of the South Carolina Biomass Council and has served on its Executive Committee. He has received numerous awards, including being named a winner of the Purpose Prize, in 2008, for his work to include poor, rural communities of color in the “Green Economy”. Mr. James received a BS, in Science, from Union College and has studied law and business administration at New York University.