Who We Are

Who We Are

Patriot BioFuels is an Arkansas-based biodiesel company with production facilities at Stuttgart, Arkansas. The company will be producing certified biodiesel fuels by early spring 2006.

The company’s board of directors consists of representatives from a variety of industries, including agribusiness and fuel distribution. Tommy Foltz, a clean fuels industry veteran of Little Rock, is president of Patriot BioFuels. Little Rock attorney Cal McCastlain, who was instrumental in the creation of the Arkansas Biodiesel Blending Incentive, is general counsel, and Mike Shook, a principal in Agri-Process Innovations of Stuttgart, is chief of operations.

The partners in Patriot BioFuels have been involved in the emerging biodiesel industry for many years. Foltz spent four years in Washington, D.C., overseeing the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Clean Cities Program, a market-development program for alternative fuels. After leaving the federal agency, he opened a clean fuels public affairs firm in Washington, D.C. He returned to Little Rock in 2001 to work for Blue Energy, selling natural gas for vehicle use. Before starting Patriot BioFuels, Foltz owned his own consulting firm in Little Rock.

Mike Shook, a partner in the new company and principal of Agri-Process Innovations in Stuttgart, helped author a recent feasibility study on biodiesel production in Arkansas for Winrock International. He and Steve Danforth, a partner in Agri-Process Innovations, have added a level of technical expertise not found in many biodiesel companies.