Carbios Appoints Raquel Lizarraga as Head of Investor Relations

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Raquel Lizarraga, Head of Investor Relations, Carbios (Photo: Business Wire)

Carbios (Paris:ALCRB) (NYSE Alternext in Paris: ALCRB), an innovative green chemistry company specializing in breakthrough technologies dedicated to the recovery of plastic waste and the production of bio-polymers, today announced that it has named Raquel Lizarraga to head the newly-created function of Investor Relations within the company. Ms. Lizarraga will report to Jean-Claude Lumaret, CEO of Carbios. Her prime objective will be to raise Carbios’ profile and impact with investors, the scientific community and the general public.

Raquel Lizarraga holds an MBA in Finance from the Yale School of Management, and an A.B. in Literature and Latin American Studies from Barnard College, Columbia University. She began her finance career in 1995 as a fixed income analyst before becoming a sell-side equity analyst at Robert Fleming Inc. (later acquired by Chase) and BBVA Securities, covering Latin American bank and beverage sector stocks. She joined PepsiCo in 2003 as a Director of Strategy and Competitive Analysis in the Latin American beverages group. In 2006, she was named Director of Investor Relations, playing a key role in all aspects of PepsiCo’s interface with its existing and potential institutional investors. Most recently, Raquel was Head of Investor Relations at Altamir, a listed private equity company based in Paris.

About Carbios

Carbios is a young, innovative green chemistry company, whose mission is to find biological solutions to the environmental and sustainable development issues faced by industrial businesses today. Carbios acquired the rights to research that was conducted over a number of years by various public and private sector laboratories. By leveraging the unique properties of biological catalysts (enzymes), it has used this research as the foundation for developing innovative industrial bioprocesses that optimize the technical, economic and environmental performance of polymers (thermoplastic materials and synthetic or food-based fibers). The company has focused its efforts on a strategic application sector: plastics. Carbios’ growth strategy is based on a clear business model of industrial value creation that targets attractive markets, develops innovative and competitive bioprocesses and licenses them to major industrial stakeholders for commercialization. Carbios benefits from the financial support of the leading European venture capital firm Truffle Capital. Carbios was founded in 2011 and has been managed, since its inception, by the Holding Incubatrice Chimie Verte fund. Carbios was granted the label "Young Innovative Company” by Bpifrance (former OSEO) and is eligible for investments by private equity mutual funds (FCPIs).
For more information, please visit: www.carbios.fr

Next press release: 2014 annual results on March 5th 2015 (after market).

Carbios is eligible for the PEA-PME, a government program allowing French residents investing in SMEs to benefit from income tax rebates.

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