Kelly Tiller, Ph.D.

Chairman and CEO

Dr. Kelly Tiller founded Genera Energy in 2008 and has led Genera to become the country’s leading commercial biomass feedstock supply solutions company. Engineering a $70.5 million biofuels investment from the State of Tennessee, Dr. Tiller led the establishment of the country’s largest energy crop acreage, a partnership with DuPont to construct and operate one of the country’s first cellulosic ethanol biorefineries, and development of a unique research campus focused on the biomass supply chain. Dr. Tiller received a BA in economics and MS and PhD degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Tennessee, where she has been on the faculty for 15 years. She is widely recognized as an industry expert, having been called on more than a half dozen times to testify before Congress and frequently providing agency briefings and analyses.