William Billy Blackburn

Mr Blackburn has over 25 years of experience in general management. He founded Emes, LLC, a technology-based specialty chemical business. Emes had a business model focused on high-purity chemical production paired with recycling in the pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare markets. Mr. Blackburn sold the business to Nova Molecular and then joined their executive team to lead further commercial growth of the merged organizations. More recently, Mr. Blackburn was the Vice President of Giant Cement Holdings Inc., and executive manager of its subsidiary, Giant Resource Recovery (GRR). He also raised capital for the GRR business to modernize its plants for sustained growth.