Joseph J. James (Joe) is founder and President of Agri-Tech Producers, LLC (ATP), a black-owned, small business, along with his several, state-based operating affiliate companies, are involved in developing and demonstrating innovative technologies and processes which cost-effectively grow and use special Bio-Crops to capture extraordinary amounts of CO 2, per acre, per year, and then converts their and other forms of Biomass into various Bio-Products. Mr. James has devised a patented, Combined Remediation Biomass and Bio-Product Production (CRBBP) Process, and related pending patent applications, by which one plants and then uses special Bio-Crops, to cost-effectively capture exceedingly large amounts of CO 2, using photosynthesis, and to simultaneously remediate contaminated air, soils and water, using their enhanced phytoremediation capabilities; then converts the resulting Biomass into various, cost-advantaged, circular economy Bio-Products, like Biochar, or a safer and more sustainable, bio-based alternative to Carbon Black Filler Powder. Mr. James has also licensed and/or invented innovative and patented or patentable biomass carbonization technologies, which convert plant and woody biomass into a variety of Bio-Products, including: Bio-Based Filler Powders, which are used to make stronger, lighter and water-resistant composites, plastics and tires; Biochar, to sequester captured Carbon and increase soil productivity. Mr. James is demonstrating these innovations and developing customers through strategically focused and located operating affiliates. Mr. James has had an impressive, 33-year career as an economic development professional, often heavily involved in technology-led development. He serves in his second term as a Secretarial appointee on the federal Biomass R&D Technical Advisory Committee and is a member of the Clean Energy Business Network. He has been a Governor’s appointee on the South Carolina Climate, Energy and Commerce Advisory Committee and is also one of the founding members of the South Carolina Biomass Council and has served on its Executive Committee. He has received numerous awards, including being named a winner of the Purpose Prize, in 2008, for his work to include poor, rural communities of color in the “Green Economy”, and he received a Meta Environmental Justice Award, in 2022. Mr. James earned a BS, in science, from Union College and has studied law and business administration at New York University.