CJ Evans has worked with more than 250 emerging technology developers over the past 20 years, assisting with application preparation, third-party studies, due diligence, fiscal
and economic impact analysis, project financing, natural resource management, and
environmental mitigation.

CJ has been involved in every phase of emerging technology project development, at every
technology readiness level, through engineering and design; community outreach; securing IP,
licenses, and supply and offtake agreements; raising equity; beginning construction; and moving
through commissioning and startup.

He has carried out economic impact studies for renewable fuel projects, protecting habitat for
the endangered Florida panther, and financing a bond issue to maintain land in agricultural use.
He has detailed the economic and fiscal contributions of agriculture through studies that he
conducted in nearly a dozen Florida counties and served on a governor’s task force to
investigate using true cost accounting as a tool for natural resource management.
CJ has been a registered Capitol Hill lobbyist for more than 40 years, beginning with bill that he
lobbied through the House and Senate that established the National Recreational Trails System
and allowed abandoned railroad rights of way to be converted to trails, thus making the Rails-to-
Trails initiative possible. He has worked to advance emerging technologies and federal
bioeconomy programs through advocacy, drafting legislation (including re-writing the Senate
Farm Bill language establishing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Section 9003 loan
guarantee program), and working on annual appropriations.

In 2019, CJ co-founded the Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition with Mark Riedy and Rina Singh, which has become the second largest bioeconomy lobbying group in the U.S. with over 160 member companies operating in 600 locations in the U.S. and overseas that employ more than 600,000 people and generate in excess of $350 billion per year.