Doug Cameron

Doug Cameron is the Managing Director and Chief Science Advisor at Piper Jaffray & Co.  He has worked in the biofuels industry since its creation and has global experience with clean technology and renewable energy.  Dr. Cameron received his B.S.E. in biomedical engineering from Duke University in 1979 and his Ph.D. in biochemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986.

Dr. Cameron has operated in all the scientific and business areas related to biofuels and has a firm grasp on the opportunities in biofuels driven by the inter-related factors of oil supply and price issues, climate change, government actions, consumer and business demand and world population growth.  He previously served as the chief scientific officer at Khosla Ventures and was director of biotechnology at Cargill before moving to Piper Jaffray & Co. 

Dr. Cameron started his career as a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he established a research program in the areas of metabolic engineering and fermentation technology and did pioneering work on the microbial production of industrial chemicals. In 1998, Dr. Cameron moved to Cargill, Inc. in Minneapolis, MN where he built the Cargill Biotechnology Development Center and led biotechnology research until 2006.

He is a fellow of the Society for Industrial Microbiology (SIM) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He is on the managing board of the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), the board of directors of the Biobusiness Alliance of Minnesota and the outside advisory board of the Iowa Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing. Cameron is on the editorial board of the journal Metabolic Engineering. He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Wisconsin and a consulting professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University.