Ron Cascone is a Principal in the Energy and Chemicals Advisory at Nexant, Inc. and a leader of the company’s broad and unique involvement in bio-renewables, as well as being highly experienced in conventional chemicals and fuels. He is a chemical engineer with 50 years of experience in the process industries. Ron has led or assisted in many technical, economic, and business feasibility analyses and in dozens of finance due diligence assignments across a wide range of industries and technologies, and mostly of late, in renewable chemicals, fuels, and polymers technology developments and first-of-a-kind projects.
Ron has a broad knowledge of the global chemical and energy industries, biofuels, renewable chemicals, and other bio-based materials, bio-based processing, agriculturally-related sustainable development strategies, and many other industrial and economic sectors. He has authored or advised on numerous Nexant multiclient reports on first generation and advanced liquid biofuels, including by gasification, fermentation, pyrolysis and chemical conversion. Chemicals examined include bio-alcohols, bio-olefins, bio-aromatics, terpenes, and other renewable chemicals from sugars, grains, biomass, solid and gaseous wastes, oilseeds and fats, algae, and bio-based feedstocks.
Ron majored in chemical engineering at Manhattan College and Columbia University. He has authored many published articles and conference papers and holds two US patents in synfuels.