From Green to IPO to Chapter 11

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Published

In January, a biofuelscompany named Changing World Technologies was thought to be preparing for an IPO. The company, based in New York, owned a biomass fuel plant in Carthage, Missouri, that used turkey waste as a feedstock. The company filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday. All but 4 of the 50 employees at the plant will be laid off during the Chapter 11 reorganization.

Too bad the company couldn’t hold on just a bit longer. With all the federal money about to be showered on alternative energy companies, an outfit with the word ‘Change’ in its name would have been a natural for a drop or two of cash.

It is becoming more and more obvious that not all green things are really green.

Paul Ausick
March 6, 2009

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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