Frederic Scheer

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Frederic George Etienne Scheer (October 10, 1954), better known as Frederic Scheer, is a French-American entrepreneur and inventor. [1] [2] [3] He is the founder of Interpart, Biodegradable Products Institute, Cereplast, Biocorp, and Alercell. He holds 15 US patents. [1] [2] [4] [3]

Career

In 1987, he became the youngest CFO of an NYSE company. He contributed in the restructuring of Montedison in Italy, a $23 billion oil and chemical group. [2] He was the chairman and CEO of Merger & Trading, Inc. (1985) until August 1999. [4]

In 1997, Scheer founded the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) and remained its CEO until 2010. [5] [4]

In 2001, he founded Cereplast, Inc., [6] [7] [8] a company that designs and makes sustainable plastics from the starch found in tapioca, corn, wheat, and potatoes. [9] [10] He was the CEO of Biocorp, Inc. and the Chairman of the Bioplastics Council of the Society of the Plastics Industry. [11]

In 2017, Scheer founded L6NRG, [12] [13] an independent oil and gas company in the US. [2] Since 2020, he has been the founder and CEO of Alercell, Inc., a biotechnology company specializing in delivering innovative in vitro rapid diagnostic tests. [14] [15]

Scheer is the co-chairman of The Scheer Foundation, a private nonprofit organization (501-c 3) established in 2006. The organization supports HRDC, a non-profit agency supporting the most vulnerable, and No Kid Hungry, an organization that donates food to children in the US. [16] [17]

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  14. ↑ Alercell. "Alercell". Alercell. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
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