MINNEAPOLIS , MN, Feb. 22, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – BioAmber Inc. has completed its Series C round of financing with net proceeds of $30 million . The financing was closed in two tranches; a first tranche of $20 million on November 4 th, 2011 with existing investors Naxos Capital, Sofinnova Partners, Mitsui & Co. Ltd. and the Cliffton Group, and a second tranche of $10 million on February 6 th, 2012 with specialty chemicals company LANXESS. All of BioAmber’s Series B investors participated in the Series C financing.
The investment by LANXESS is the culmination of a strategic collaboration in the field of renewable, phthalate-free plasticizers. BioAmber and LANXESS are jointly developing phthalate-free plasticizers and expect to begin sampling succinic-based plasticizers in 2012. The companies are also collaborating in Sarnia, Ontario, on the establishment of BioAmber’s first world-scale bio-succinic acid manufacturing facility. LANXESS is owner of the site and will provide BioAmber with utilities and services needed to operate the facility.
Concurrent with the investment, LANXESS will be joining the BioAmber board of directors and has named Jorge Noguiera as its board representative. Jorge Nogueira is the Head of LANXESS’ Functional Chemicals business unit. Mr. Nogueira has over 30 years of chemical industry experience, working for leading multinationals in the United States , Europe , Asia and Latin America. “Our investment in BioAmber shows our commitment to launching a new generation of plasticizers that satisfy regulatory requirements and can also score in terms of sustainability,” said Mr. Nogueira .
“We are pleased to have LANXESS as a strategic investor alongside Naxos, Sofinnova, Mitsui & Co. and Cliffton,” said Jean-Francois Huc, BioAmber’s CEO. “BioAmber is fortunate to have a strong, committed group of investors and we welcome Jorge Nogueira , a dynamic and experienced chemical industry executive to our board”.
“LANXESS is actively engaged in leveraging its Sarnia site to establish the largest bio-industrial park in Canada , offering land, energy and infrastructure for the development of new bio-industrial chemicals,” said Sandy Marshall , President of LANXESS Canada . “We are excited to be working closely with BioAmber to anchor the Bio-industrial Park, and this investment is a natural extension of our collaboration,” added Mr. Marshall .
About BioAmber Inc.
BioAmber is a next generation chemicals company. Its proprietary technology platform combines industrial biotechnology, an innovative purification process and chemical catalysis to convert renewable feedstocks into chemicals for use in a wide variety of everyday products including plastics, food additives and personal care products. BioAmber produces bio-succinic acid in what it believes to be one of the world’s largest bio-based chemical manufacturing facilities. For more information visit the company’s web site at www.bio-amber.com.
About LANXESS
LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals company with sales of EUR 7.1 billion in 2010 and currently around 16,100 employees in 30 countries. The company is at present represented at 47 production sites worldwide. The core business of LANXESS is the development, manufacturing and marketing of plastics, rubber, intermediates and specialty chemicals. LANXESS is a member of the leading sustainable indices Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) World and FTSE4Good
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2012年2月8日星期三
Mortgage Compliance and Real Estate Loss Mitigation Company, American Loan Compliance, Featured in National Business …
NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – American Loan Compliance, America’s leading loss mitigation and commercial mortgage loan audit report experts, were recently featured in the press showcasing the advantages to having loans investigated prior to negotiating terms on restructuring real estate loans. The experts interviewed and featured are dedicated to spreading knowledge, educational products, tools and awareness in their field of expertise and making significant contributions to the mortgage loan modification, real estate finance and mortgage violation audit and analysis industry and the marketplace as a whole.
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American Loan Compliance (ALC), specializes in strategic mortgage compliance analysis and audit report services and has recently opened its doors to consumers allowing homeowners seeking mortgage assistance and loan modification to obtain these services direct. Viewed as America’s most knowledgeable, proven and experienced mortgage compliance auditing firms to correspondent lending institutions, federal banking associations, law firms, wholesale lenders and direct lending institutions across the country. American Loan Compliance will concentrate their efforts on helping the general population more effectively obtain accurate investigative mortgage audit reports and ensure clarification on enforceable loans. A very effective and experienced management team that is sure to make a huge impact in an industry with an ambiguous reputation in anxious need of assistance leads the dynamic force overseeing operational management at the private held company.
American Loan Compliance has shifted momentum, acting as a national strategic investigative analysis and enforcement management firm which provides professional, advisory, and consulting services to financial institutions, consumer protection, financial and regulatory agencies, including mortgage bankers, real estate attorneys, commercial and retail lending entities, and property owners. American Loan Compliance sets the standard in mortgage compliance in the United States providing a variety of audit reports no other firm has come close to close its competitive advantage in an ambiguous industry in demand for supplemental mortgage loan analysis and homeland assistance. The quality control behind closed doors, displays strategic expertise and addresses all critical areas associated with American mortgage loan compliance regulatory matters, observance and quality control in U.S. residential and commercial real estate mortgage finance. American Loan Compliance can assist clients in meeting the oversight of regulators, fair lending mandates and maintaining internal lending integrity and validation practices through independent quality control audit reports.
American Loan Compliance will provide you with the evidence and support you can trust to help you seek better loan modification terms, restructuring of new terms via loan workouts, principal/rate reductions, or continued discovery. With the greatest potential to alleviate “normal modification” setbacks and re-occurrence of default, qualified and objective evidence helps simplify negotiations and stay using the information and support provided by American Loan Compliance.
A 2009, FDIC Office of Inspector General Report revealed:
83% of the institutions examined were cited for “significant” compliance violations
43% of those institutions were “repeat offenders”
85% of those repeat offenders were highly rated by the FDIC for their in-place compliance process
The other importance of the mortgage loan audit findings is that it may be the grounds to help move a non-judicial foreclosure action (currently in 29 states), if necessary, into jurisdiction, which can stop foreclosure in its tracks. More importantly, borrowers regardless of financial hardship and payment history now have the chance for a better position to negotiate new terms or loan settlement. Violations found in a loan audit can help place the borrower in the offense! We at American Loan Compliance help legal professionals navigate through the process with our learning channels, which we find critical for those legal advisors that are looking to make the audit solution part of their business practice. Information is only as good as the ones that know how best to use it
The driving force behind American Loan Compliance consist of executive and management teams which include best-selling authors and speakers who are regularly sought out by the media to give expert opinions. Many have been featured on NBC, CNBC, CBS, ABC and FOX affiliates as well as seen in USA Today, Newsweek, Forbes, Market watch, Ask The Experts©, Los Angeles Business Journal and the Wall Street Journal. American Loan Compliance mission is homeland assistance from business to consumers, ensuring the most intelligent solutions and accurate analysis obtained via their flagship mortgage compliance analysis reports. Audit Reports allow the ability and vision to direct arbitration on residential and commercial mortgages and through strategic analysis ensure enforcement of mortgage loan modification and payment assistance at the best results attainable.
American Loan Compliance has collaborated with other established agencies and most recently, Homeland Assistance Agency based in Washington D.C. and the Federal Relief Organization based in Los Angeles. This collaboration of powerhouse agencies has vowed to allow consumers a unique option of working with trusted and proven sources as a one stop merger of industry experts to determine and proceed with their ultimate goals related to the property in distress, in need of assistance or available for more lucrative cash flow options.
American Loan Compliance is located in New York City, New York. Their corporate address is 1330 Avenue of the Americas, Floor 23A, New York City, NY 10019. For more information about American Loan Compliance, please visit http://www.AmericanLoanCompliance.com for consumer information. Please visit www.AmericanLoanCompliance.info for general information or call (888) 929-2829.
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American Loan Compliance (ALC), specializes in strategic mortgage compliance analysis and audit report services and has recently opened its doors to consumers allowing homeowners seeking mortgage assistance and loan modification to obtain these services direct. Viewed as America’s most knowledgeable, proven and experienced mortgage compliance auditing firms to correspondent lending institutions, federal banking associations, law firms, wholesale lenders and direct lending institutions across the country. American Loan Compliance will concentrate their efforts on helping the general population more effectively obtain accurate investigative mortgage audit reports and ensure clarification on enforceable loans. A very effective and experienced management team that is sure to make a huge impact in an industry with an ambiguous reputation in anxious need of assistance leads the dynamic force overseeing operational management at the private held company.
American Loan Compliance has shifted momentum, acting as a national strategic investigative analysis and enforcement management firm which provides professional, advisory, and consulting services to financial institutions, consumer protection, financial and regulatory agencies, including mortgage bankers, real estate attorneys, commercial and retail lending entities, and property owners. American Loan Compliance sets the standard in mortgage compliance in the United States providing a variety of audit reports no other firm has come close to close its competitive advantage in an ambiguous industry in demand for supplemental mortgage loan analysis and homeland assistance. The quality control behind closed doors, displays strategic expertise and addresses all critical areas associated with American mortgage loan compliance regulatory matters, observance and quality control in U.S. residential and commercial real estate mortgage finance. American Loan Compliance can assist clients in meeting the oversight of regulators, fair lending mandates and maintaining internal lending integrity and validation practices through independent quality control audit reports.
American Loan Compliance will provide you with the evidence and support you can trust to help you seek better loan modification terms, restructuring of new terms via loan workouts, principal/rate reductions, or continued discovery. With the greatest potential to alleviate “normal modification” setbacks and re-occurrence of default, qualified and objective evidence helps simplify negotiations and stay using the information and support provided by American Loan Compliance.
A 2009, FDIC Office of Inspector General Report revealed:
83% of the institutions examined were cited for “significant” compliance violations
43% of those institutions were “repeat offenders”
85% of those repeat offenders were highly rated by the FDIC for their in-place compliance process
The other importance of the mortgage loan audit findings is that it may be the grounds to help move a non-judicial foreclosure action (currently in 29 states), if necessary, into jurisdiction, which can stop foreclosure in its tracks. More importantly, borrowers regardless of financial hardship and payment history now have the chance for a better position to negotiate new terms or loan settlement. Violations found in a loan audit can help place the borrower in the offense! We at American Loan Compliance help legal professionals navigate through the process with our learning channels, which we find critical for those legal advisors that are looking to make the audit solution part of their business practice. Information is only as good as the ones that know how best to use it
The driving force behind American Loan Compliance consist of executive and management teams which include best-selling authors and speakers who are regularly sought out by the media to give expert opinions. Many have been featured on NBC, CNBC, CBS, ABC and FOX affiliates as well as seen in USA Today, Newsweek, Forbes, Market watch, Ask The Experts©, Los Angeles Business Journal and the Wall Street Journal. American Loan Compliance mission is homeland assistance from business to consumers, ensuring the most intelligent solutions and accurate analysis obtained via their flagship mortgage compliance analysis reports. Audit Reports allow the ability and vision to direct arbitration on residential and commercial mortgages and through strategic analysis ensure enforcement of mortgage loan modification and payment assistance at the best results attainable.
American Loan Compliance has collaborated with other established agencies and most recently, Homeland Assistance Agency based in Washington D.C. and the Federal Relief Organization based in Los Angeles. This collaboration of powerhouse agencies has vowed to allow consumers a unique option of working with trusted and proven sources as a one stop merger of industry experts to determine and proceed with their ultimate goals related to the property in distress, in need of assistance or available for more lucrative cash flow options.
American Loan Compliance is located in New York City, New York. Their corporate address is 1330 Avenue of the Americas, Floor 23A, New York City, NY 10019. For more information about American Loan Compliance, please visit http://www.AmericanLoanCompliance.com for consumer information. Please visit www.AmericanLoanCompliance.info for general information or call (888) 929-2829.
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2012年1月2日星期一
Digital Classrooms: Is The Investment Paying Off?
Guest post written by Chuck Dietrich
Chuck Dietrich is CEO of SlideRocket.
Chuck Dietrich: Learning 2.0.There is a raging debate about the effectiveness of the ‘digital classroom’ – with arguments solely focused on the $31.2 billion education technology market and whether the investment is delivering a return to cash-strapped school districts.
In the heated discussion over education technology, we are missing out on a crucial component of education – the ethos of how to work together. Collaborative technology is a valuable aid in teaching students to engage in meaningful discussion, take responsibility for their own learning and become critical thinkers in a rapidly-shifting world – skills necessary for success in the 21st century workforce.
The collaboration revolution has entered the workplace in full force, ushering in ‘a new way to work’ – and now it needs to head to the classroom. Studies have shown that students learn best when they’re actively involved in the process and engaged in interactive group work. Today’s student is gathering information from a variety of sources and their access to each other and to their instructors extends way beyond the classroom. The development of tomorrow’s successful leaders requires cultivating skills that master how to work with people in a dynamic and effective fashion.
The national organization, The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) understands that it is time for “a new way to educate.” The organization advocates new ways of thinking in order to prepare students to compete in a global economy. The institution provides tools and resources to help the U.S. education system keep up with global competitors by combing the traditional 3Rs with the 4Cs (Critical thinking and problem solving, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity and innovation). P21 views all components as interconnected in the process of 21st century teaching and learning.
The 4Cs emphasized by P21 are the framework of the modern, global workplace. An educational system that emphasizes this framework prepares students for the world beyond the classroom while embracing an educational method that taps into a more natural method of learning.
The 4Cs are a cornerstone of the modern workforce revolutionized by cloud based technology. Cloud-based technology has facilitated dynamic interactive collaboration between location- dispersed teams. Ideas are created, shared and revised, emulating the collective learning common for the classroom. The standard model of education is a passive one, where success is measured by memorizing rote facts, and figures. Leveraging 21st century workplace skills cultivates a new way of educational thinking that makes learning both active and interactive, essential for life outside of the classroom.
In this new model of educational thinking, educators and students tap into the cloud to build, collaborate, share and manage media rich lessons and curriculum. In some classrooms this revolution is already underway. The Open High School of Utah (OHSU) is a fully online charter school that has traded chalk and blackboards for digital tools that foster collaboration and interactive education. The school has fully integrated Google Docs and uses open course management system Moodle. Students create more than 150 presentations per year using SlideRocket; often collaborating remotely in teams to share and organize data.
The OHSU model is an example of how to employ real world technologies which focus on collaboration. The return on investment is not a result of the technology, but how that technology is effectively implemented in education.
The real value of education is not really what we learn; it’s how we learn – which involves the effort and process that goes into the act of learning itself. No matter how many new digital tools come out, the common denominator is still people. And it will always be people. The new collaboration revolution in education technology places people squarely at the center of the equation, making it easier to connect and produce solid results.
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Chuck Dietrich is CEO of SlideRocket.
Chuck Dietrich: Learning 2.0.In the heated discussion over education technology, we are missing out on a crucial component of education – the ethos of how to work together. Collaborative technology is a valuable aid in teaching students to engage in meaningful discussion, take responsibility for their own learning and become critical thinkers in a rapidly-shifting world – skills necessary for success in the 21st century workforce.
The collaboration revolution has entered the workplace in full force, ushering in ‘a new way to work’ – and now it needs to head to the classroom. Studies have shown that students learn best when they’re actively involved in the process and engaged in interactive group work. Today’s student is gathering information from a variety of sources and their access to each other and to their instructors extends way beyond the classroom. The development of tomorrow’s successful leaders requires cultivating skills that master how to work with people in a dynamic and effective fashion.
The national organization, The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) understands that it is time for “a new way to educate.” The organization advocates new ways of thinking in order to prepare students to compete in a global economy. The institution provides tools and resources to help the U.S. education system keep up with global competitors by combing the traditional 3Rs with the 4Cs (Critical thinking and problem solving, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity and innovation). P21 views all components as interconnected in the process of 21st century teaching and learning.
The 4Cs emphasized by P21 are the framework of the modern, global workplace. An educational system that emphasizes this framework prepares students for the world beyond the classroom while embracing an educational method that taps into a more natural method of learning.
The 4Cs are a cornerstone of the modern workforce revolutionized by cloud based technology. Cloud-based technology has facilitated dynamic interactive collaboration between location- dispersed teams. Ideas are created, shared and revised, emulating the collective learning common for the classroom. The standard model of education is a passive one, where success is measured by memorizing rote facts, and figures. Leveraging 21st century workplace skills cultivates a new way of educational thinking that makes learning both active and interactive, essential for life outside of the classroom.
In this new model of educational thinking, educators and students tap into the cloud to build, collaborate, share and manage media rich lessons and curriculum. In some classrooms this revolution is already underway. The Open High School of Utah (OHSU) is a fully online charter school that has traded chalk and blackboards for digital tools that foster collaboration and interactive education. The school has fully integrated Google Docs and uses open course management system Moodle. Students create more than 150 presentations per year using SlideRocket; often collaborating remotely in teams to share and organize data.
The OHSU model is an example of how to employ real world technologies which focus on collaboration. The return on investment is not a result of the technology, but how that technology is effectively implemented in education.
The real value of education is not really what we learn; it’s how we learn – which involves the effort and process that goes into the act of learning itself. No matter how many new digital tools come out, the common denominator is still people. And it will always be people. The new collaboration revolution in education technology places people squarely at the center of the equation, making it easier to connect and produce solid results.
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