Craig Willis, CEO of Eco-Energy

This week on CEOs You Should Know, we host Craig Willis, CEO of Eco-Energy.

Episode Transcript

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iHeartMedia present CEOs you should know inthe studio, Craig Willis, CEO of
Eco Energy. Tell us about yourself. So I grew up in the eighties,
middle of the farm crisis. Lovefarming, love agriculture, but it
really wasn't feasible to come back tothe farm after college. It was pretty
tough times. So right out ofcollege I was a commodity trader for Archer
Daniels Midland. After that I wentto work for the ethanol industry and then

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I've been at Eco three years now. But I've been married to my wife,
Jill twenty nine years. Happily married. We have two boys, the
one graduated Belmont and the others inDC. Describe what your business is about.
We've got the ethanol portion of thebusiness. We have supply chain,
so we manage a lot of logisticswith ethanol getting it into your gas tank.
We market ethanol for sixteen ethanol plantsin the US. We trade it

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and then we build assets. Also, we have ten ethanol terminals in the
United States. And then on theother side, we are a top twenty
five natural gas marketer in the UnitedStates. We have a team of about
twenty schedulers, a natural gas traders, trying to get natural gas to where
it needs to go to heat people'shomes as price conscious as possible. But
another is our solar development team.We work really close with firms that want

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to lower their carbon footprint. That'sbeen one of our relatively new businesses here
in the last two years. Craigwillis CEO of Eco Energy. Where can
people find out more? Go toour website ecodshenergy dot com, or you
can go to our LinkedIn page.We're pretty active on that and like eco
Energy, we'd love to have youfollowing us. This has been iHeartMedia's CEOs.

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