Solazyme announces new Senior Vice President of Business Development

South San Francisco, CA, based Solazyme, a bioscience company pioneering biofuels and health/wellness products from microalgae, has named Troy J. Campione, Ph.D., to the position of senior vice president of business development. Campione will lead the development, negotiation, and finalization of partnership agreements and contracts with major companies. These deals will help fund research and development programs leveraging Solazyme’s work on biofuels and industrial chemicals. Campione has extensive experience monetizing technology across diverse industries and geographies. Most recently he was general manager and vice president of Symyx Technologies, Inc., a company providing high throughput research and informatics technologies globally to the chemical, energy, polymer, pharmaceutical, and electronics industries. Campione earned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and also holds M.E. and B.S degrees in Chemical Engineering from Tulane University. www.solazyme.com.