Brent Baker

CEO

Tri-State Biodiesel

Brent Baker is the Chief Executive Officer, President, and Founder of New York City based,
Tri-State Biodiesel LLC, and its parent company The Sustainable Biodiesel Company. Under
Baker’s leadership, Tri-State Biodiesel is the first, most well-known and biggest biodiesel brand
in New York City, and a national pioneer in urban, sustainable biodiesel.

Tri-State Biodiesel distributes over 2mm gallons of biodiesel feed-stock and fuel-blends per
year, operates one of largest waste cooking oil collection services in New York, and is in the
process of building the city’s first commercial-scale biodiesel production facility. Tri-State
Biodiesel is also a partner to biodiesel companies in Connecticut and Oakland, California, and
continues to expand with it’s model of vertically integrated, sustainable, urban-based biodiesel.
Brent is a pioneer of the biodiesel movement and has been a biodiesel educator and producer
of biodiesel fuel since the fuel emerged in the United States about 14 years ago. He is now a
nationally known spokesman on biodiesel and related issues. Over the years, Brent has built
an extensive network of investors, technology providers, fuel buyers, fleet managers, public
officials, and advocates in the industrial and environmental sectors who work in tandem to
facilitate the emergence of biodiesel in the Northeastern fuel economy.

Brent is an environmental advocate who has been focused on various sustainability issues for
the over 20 years. Prior to founding Tri-State Biodiesel in 2004, he was the Executive Director
and founder of Biotour.org, a non-profit organization that specialized in global warming and
sustainability education. Through his work at Biotour.org and Tri-State Biodiesel, Brent has
educated hundreds-of-thousands of Americans about the dangers of global warming and the
benefits of biodiesel fuel.

Brent has been the subject of numerous print articles, radio and television programs including
the New York Times, National Public Radio, ABCs Business Week Weekend and PBS News
Hour, which called him a “Johnny Appleseed of biodiesel”. Baker, is currently advising
members of the New York State Assembly and the New York City Council on biodiesel policy.
He also serves as a consultant to other biodiesel startups and is featured in the award-winning
documentary “Fuel”.

Baker, who has met with Al Gore and biodiesel superstar Willie Nelson, is called upon
regularly to be interviewed or speak at biodiesel industry and environmental forums. More
recently, Brent was nominated for Social Venture Network’s Innovators Award for his work at
Tri-State Biodiesel.