What does your organisation do?
We are a biodiesel sales distribution and production company

What is the biggest challenges facing your organisation in the short term (1-3 years)?
Executing on our growth plan

What is the biggest challenge for the industry longer term (3-10 years)?
Developing feedstock sources beyond existing vegetable oil stocks

Has/How has the recent petrol/gas price decline affected the industry's growth prospects?
Yes, it is causing hesitation on the part of investors

In your opinion - In 2010 renewable fuels will make up X% of total road transport fuels.
It will be 1%

Anna Halpern-Lande is a co-founder and Managing Director of Tellurian Biodiesel, Inc. She has worked with entrepreneurial companies since 1997 and in intrapreneurial roles since 1993. A founder of SF Biodiesel, LLC,, a subsidiary of Tellurian Biodiesel, Ms. Halpern-Lande is also the founder and principal of Cyrnel LLC, a consulting firm specializing in go-to-market/market development strategies and execution for companies in the renewable energy and clean high tech sector, with a particular emphasis on the biospace

Ms. Halpern-Lande is also the Founder and Program Leader of the MIT Club of Northern California Renewable Energy and Clean Technology Program; co-lead of the Environmental Entrepreneurs Biofuels Team and is a co-creator of AB 1007 (Alt. Fuels Bill); and founder and advisory board member of the California Clean Tech Open, a $500,000 public/private challenge competition designed to spark a clean tech cluster in Calfornia.  Previously, Ms. Halpern-Lande worked as a consulting manager at Booz Allen & Hamilton, both in the US and in the European Community, focused primarily on assisting clients manage the disruptive impacts of new technologies; and at Wells Fargo bank in a variety of intrapreneurial roles. Ms. Halpern-Lande has an MBA from MIT Sloan in New Product and Venture Development and an AB from Harvard University.