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Spero Energy Inc. Pioneering a Greener Future

Spero Energy Inc. Pioneering a Greener Future. Pioneering a Greener Future. Municipal Waste Dump. Renewable Tree Farm. Advantage Sourced Raw Materials. Team Spero & Advisors . Mahdi Abu-Omar, Ph.D. Founder and President. Basudeb Saha, Ph.D. Chief Technical Officer.

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Spero Energy Inc. Pioneering a Greener Future

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  1. Spero Energy Inc.Pioneering a Greener Future

  2. Pioneering a Greener Future Municipal Waste Dump Renewable Tree Farm Advantage Sourced Raw Materials

  3. Team Spero & Advisors Mahdi Abu-Omar, Ph.D. Founder and President BasudebSaha, Ph.D. Chief Technical Officer Tim Peoples, Ph.D. Entrepreneur in Residence, Purdue Foundry Trenton Parsell, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Ian Klein Scientist Nathan Mosier, Ph.D. Scale-up, bioprocess engineering Barron Hewetson Scientist Tony Hamer, Ph.D. Industrial chemical production Student Business Team

  4. Milestones Completed

  5. Wasted Carbon Value $40 per ton $40,000 per ton LIGNIN Biomass2energy.com CARBOHYDRATES Petrixo.com

  6. Technology Overview High Value Chemicals Spero Process Cellulose

  7. Business Opportunity DHE/Isoeugenol/ Eugenol $443 M DMP $375 M Vanillin $300 M $1.1 Billion Market

  8. Estimated Production Cost of DHE Spero Advantage • Feedstock • One-step Process • Reusable Catalyst

  9. Spero Competitive Edge Competitors: • Suzhou Yacoo Corporation • Indesso • Rhodia • Borregarrd

  10. Customer Development

  11. Market Expansion

  12. Spero Timeline Year -1 Year 0 Year 1 Year 4 Year 2 Year 3

  13. Summary • High value Products from waste wood • Competitive products • Strong development pipeline • Excellent Team • Scientific and business experience • Developing commercial team

  14. Questions

  15. EXTRA SLIDES

  16. Different Feedstock Yields

  17. Financials – Customers and Sales

  18. Estimated Annual Expenses

  19. Five Year Forecast

  20. Market Info On Cellulose

  21. Experimental Overview Insert image of the reactor Put in operating conditions

  22. List of Distributors

  23. Funding Opportunity • $500K of matching funds with SBIR (6 mo) • Accelerate development and scale up • Complete scale up in 2014 • $ 3.5 Million • Commercial production • Revenue producing in 2016

  24. Developing Product Pathways Organize by phase category

  25. Milestones • Filed a provisional patent for Spero Energy, Inc. pretreatment technology • Licensed the technology from Purdue University • Received Trask funding through Purdue University • Received Phase I SBIR funding from the US DOE • Begin scale up to a 1-5 gallon reactor vessel, giving capacity to generate large quantities of HVCs and cellulose for further testing % Yield of Lignin HVCs • High yields of HVCs even from municipal waste wood • Recyclable Catalyst • Resultant Cellulose produces >96% sugar via hydrolysis

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