www.p2science.com

For More Information Contact:                                                      FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Neil Burns:       +1 (732) 688-9585

CEO, P2 Science, Inc

May 30^th, 2013

Location: New Haven, CT

            P2 SCIENCE, INC. A RENEWABLE CHEMICAL COMPANY BASED IN NEW HAVEN, CT HAS FORMED A STRATEGIC ADVISORY BOARD, COMPRISING LEADING FIGURES FROM INDUSTRY, ACADEMIA AND GOVERNMENT.

P2 Science is a venture backed company, using patent pending chemical technology to convert biomass into specialty chemicals. Initial target markets include Flavors & Fragrances, Cosmetics and Polymers. The scientific co-founders of the company, Professor Paul Anastas and Dr. Patrick Foley, worked together at the Yale Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering.

P2’s Strategic Advisory Board is intended to provide insight and counsel from experienced professionals with a track record in relevant technology and business as the company commercializes its technology and works toward its first production capability scheduled for 2014. The four members are Professor Paul Anastas, Dr. James Barber, Professor Eric Beckman and Mr. Stephen Hicks. Further details follow:

Professor Paul Anastas, is Director of the Yale Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering. Professor Anastas served as the Assistant Administrator for the US EPA and the EPA Science Advisor from 2009-2012. From 2004 -2006, Professor Anastas served as Director of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute in Washington, D.C. He was previously the Assistant Director for the Environment in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he worked from 1999-2004. Professor Anastas is credited with establishing the field of green chemistry during his time working for the US EPA as the Chief of the Industrial Chemistry Branch and as the

Director of the US Green Chemistry Program. Dr. Anastas has published widely on topics of science through sustainability including eleven books, such as Benign by Design, Designing Safer Polymers, Green Engineering, and his seminal work as co-author, Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice.

Dr. James Barber served as President and CEO of Metabolix, Inc. from 2000 to 2007. During this period, he led the transformation of Metabolix from a research boutique to a world-renowned, publicly traded renewable polymers company. Prior to joining Metabolix, Dr. Barber served as a Global Business Director at Albemarle and as a Director of Nippon Aluminum Alkyls, a JV between Albemarle and Mitsui. Dr. Barber’s prior experience includes time as a venture capitalist and in the formation of venture backed companies. He currently serves as a director or advisor to a number of leading renewable chemical companies.  Dr. Barber received the ACS Henry F. Whalen, Jr. award for Business Development in 2003.

Dr. Eric Beckman is a co-founder of Cohera Medical, Inc. and is the primary inventor of the company’s proprietary adhesive technology, which recently won a Gold Edison award for innovation. Dr. Beckman is also co-Director of the Mascaro Sustainability Initiative at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Dr. Beckman has held positions in industry, including at Monsanto Plastics and Resins and Union Carbide’s Silicones and Urethanes Intermediates Division. Dr. Beckman received the 2002 Academic Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the EPA, and was honored by the Engineers’ Society of Western Pennsylvania as the 2005 Engineer of the Year.

Stephen J. Hicks is the recently retired Director of R&D at Procter and Gamble for Global Flavors and Fragrance Development. In this role, Mr. Hicks led innovation strategy and organization for all flavor & fragrance development for all P&G brands globally. He managed a research and development organization in 10 P&G technical centers around the world. Over a 37+ year career with P&G, Mr. Hicks led research and strategy programs and organizations in other areas including paper products, beverages, cookies, salted snacks, health care, beauty care, skin care and fine fragrances. He worked on a number of iconic brands including Olay^®, Vicks^® and Pantene^®. He has lived and worked in Cincinnati, Canada and the UK. Mr. Hicks currently consults in the flavors and fragrance industry in the areas of innovation and strategy and is an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering & Applied Science.

P2 Science has received financing from Elm Street Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm and Connecticut Innovations, Inc. The company has an exclusive licensing agreement for certain technology with Yale University and works in partnership with the Engineering firm, Desmet Ballestra, Italy in the design of P2’s process plant. P2’s CEO is Neil Burns, who prior to joining P2 had over 25 years experience in specialty chemicals.

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Happy New Year to all our readers! We have added a calendar page to the website. This lists all the speaking engagements we have so far for the coming year and also the exhibitions and conferences in which we will be participating. Links and brief information are provided for each. Highlights for us include the 2^nd ICIS World Surfactant Conference, April 25-26^th in New York in which we will be presenting our technology alongside such giants in the renewable chemicals field as Solazyme, Elevance, Amyris, LS-9 and Codexis. We are genuinely honored to be in the company of such a stellar line-up of companies who are transforming the surfactant supply chain. We are also looking forward to the March 1^st Green Chemicals Panel discussion hosted in Manhattan by the CM&E Group of ACS.  Full details of the P2 2012 Calendar are on this new page to our site. Please check back frequently as we are adding additional engagements on a regular basis.

For me, the official launch of P2 was when we took our technology on the road at the SCC Annual Meeting in New York December 8^th and 9th. There we put up a poster outlining our new C-glycoside technology and engaged in a couple of days worth of very interesting discussions with prospective customers and partners. Our thanks and appreciating to the SCC and the volunteer organizers of this superb event. If you are interested, you can download our poster at this link.

What has struck me about our first couple of weeks has been the level of media interest. ICIS, Chemical Week, Lube Report, HAPPI Magazine and even the Yale University Green Chemistry Newsletter have published pieces. We have added a media page to our site to keep track of this coverage.

An even more encouraging sign for us has been the level of interest from the market segments we are targeting for our technology. Before putting together the company we sat down and listed out all the potential customers and partners we could think of for the company. It is really quite gratifying to see that a number of them have pro-actively reached out to us to initiate discussions in the last couple of weeks. Proof that companies are very much interested in new technology and are on the look-out for its appearance.

As a result of the encouraging early interest in our products, we have already committed to a number of speaking engagements for 2012 and will publish these on a new Events page to be added to our site.

Let me take this opportunity to wish all readers, the compliments of the season and our best wishes for a Happy New Year.

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CEO, P2 Science, Inc

Rob Bettigole:  +1 (203) 401-4201

Managing Partner, Elm Street Ventures

December 7^th  2011

Location: New Haven, CT 

            ELM STREET VENTURES OF NEW HAVEN, CT HAS PROVIDED FINANCING FOR THE FORMATION OF P2 SCIENCE, INC., A SURFACTANT COMPANY, UTILISING TECHNOLOGY LICENSED FROM YALE UNIVERSITY.

P2 Science is a newly formed company, using patent pending technology from the Yale Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering to develop and manufacture a new class of high performance surfactants, C-glycosides (CG’s). CG’s will find application in a range of consumer and industrial products such as detergents, personal care products, cosmetics, lubricants, hard-surface cleaners, emulsion polymers, mining and oilfield chemicals and many other areas. The new surfactants are mild in use, stable, customizable and manufactured in low energy intensive conditions. Patrick Foley, the lead Yale inventor in the c-glycoside field, is the company’s Chief Scientific Officer.  Neil Burns, an executive with 20 years experience in the surfactant industry, is the company’s founding CEO.

P2 has set up a laboratory in New Haven to continue development of the initial surfactant product range and has commenced discussions with potential partners and customers in a number of key end-use markets. A detailed introduction of the novel technology will be made at the Society of Cosmetic Chemists (SCC) Annual Meeting in New York City, December 8^th and 9^th.

Elm Street Ventures, is an early stage venture capital firm based in New Haven, with a successful history of building businesses around Yale University technology . The Yale Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering has a mission to advance sustainability by catalyzing the effectiveness of the Green Chemistry and Green Engineering community. Neil Burns is currently Managing Partner of Neil A Burns LLC, an investment and advisory firm with a focus in surfactants and oleochemicals.

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