Peter Meinhold

Mr. Peter Meinhold, Ph.D., serves as Chief Technology Officer of Provivi, Inc. Mr. Meinhold was a co-founder and Director of Research at Gevo, Inc. since 2005 until May 2013. He has 12 years of experience in research and development of biotechnology for fuels and chemicals production. For his thesis research, Mr. Meinhold engineered the fatty acid hydroxylating cytochrome P450 BM-3 into an alkane hydroxylating one that accepts substrates as short as ethane. In 2010, he was recognized by MIT’s Technology Review magazine as one of the world’s top innovators. He holds nine issued patents in the U.S. alone with dozens more pending. Mr. Meinhold received his Diploma (equivalent to a B.Sc.) in Biotechnology from the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan, Germany and a PhD in Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology.