According to the company’s website press release on January 4, 2023, LanzaTech NZ, Inc. (“LanzaTech”), an innovative Carbon Capture and Transformation (“CCT”) company that transforms waste carbon into materials such as sustainable fuels, fabrics, packaging, and other products that people use in their daily lives, announced that it has appointed Joseph C. Blasko as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary.
Mr. Blasko previously led the global legal and compliance department at James Hardie Industries plc, an Irish-domiciled, NYSE/ASX-listed global building materials company. Prior to joining James Hardie Industries, Mr. Blasko served as General Counsel of Liebert Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of industrial conglomerate Emerson Electric Co. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles within the legal department at The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company and practiced law at Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP, with a broad focus on regulatory, commercial and products liability litigation.
“We are thrilled to welcome Joe to the LanzaTech team,” said LanzaTech CEO Dr. Jennifer Holmgren. “Joe brings extensive public company experience to LanzaTech that will be critical as we enter the next stage of the Company’s growth. We look forward to accelerating and scaling our carbon transformation solution to change how the world procures, uses and disposes of carbon.”
Mr. Blasko received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, International Relations, Law & Organization from Georgetown University, and a Juris Doctorate from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Carbon Recycling Technology for the Future
LanzaTech’s carbon recycling technology is like retrofitting a brewery onto an emission source like a steel mill or a landfill site, but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, pollution is converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals! Imagine a day when your plane is powered by recycled GHG emissions, when your shampoo bottle started life as emissions from a steel mill. This future is possible today using LanzaTech technology.
