Naoki Dowaki

Japan Blue Energy Co., Ltd. provides environmental consulting services. Its focus is on the industrial recovery and local revitalization in those areas. The firm specializes in the research, development, and study for the creation of a material-cycle society and reduction of the effects of greenhouse gases using biomass resources. The company was founded by Akio Dowaki on May 1, 1975 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Ways2h, Inc. is a company that specializes in converting waste biomass into renewable hydrogen using an advanced, carbon-neutral thermochemical process. The company is based in Long Beach, CA, and is a unique solution for the $400 billion+ solid waste management market and the rapidly growing hydrogen economy, estimated to reach by 2050. The company's patented process extracts hydrogen from various waste streams, including municipal solid waste, medical refuse, plastics, and organics, without incineration, to produce clean fuel for mobility and power generation. Ways2h commercializes its carbon-negative thermochemical process to convert waste into renewable hydrogen and permanently sequester CO2. The company was founded by Jean-Louis Kindler and Dennis C. Poulsen, and Jean-Louis Kindler has been the CEO since incorporation.