Frederic Scheer is a French-American entrepreneur and inventor. He is the founder of multiple companies, including Interpart, Biodegradable Products Institute, Cereplast, Biocorp, and Alercell. He has 15 US patents under his name in biotechnology.

Early life and education

Scheer was born in

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. He holds an MBA from

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(1978) and doctorate in law from the

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Career

Scheer moved to the US in 1986 and became the youngest CFO of a

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company. He has participated in the restructuring of

Montedison Edison S.p.A. is an Italian electric utility company headquartered in Milan. The company was established in 1884 and acquired by Electricité de France in 2012. Edison employs more than 5,000 people in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. ...

in Italy, a $23 billion oil and chemical group. He was the co-CEO and founder of Interpart SA (1983-1988) and the co-CEO of the

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(1987-1988). Scheer became involved in the biodegradable plastics industry in 1994 through Montedison SpA, a chemical conglomerate operating Novamont SpA, Scheer secured exclusive distribution rights in North America of Mater-Bi resins. Scheer terminated his distribution rights with Novamont in early 2000 to work on new resins patented by Cereplast. In 1997, Scheer founded the science-driven organization, Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) and remained its CEO until 2010. In 2001, he founded Cereplast, and held the position of CEO until 2014, a company that designs and makes sustainable plastics from the starch found in tapioca, corn, wheat, and potatoes. Scheer was the supplier of all compostables bags and compostable utensils used by the

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held in Sydney. He was the CEO of Biocorp and the Chairman of the Bioplastics Council of the Society of the Plastics Industry. In 2017, Scheer founded L6NRG, an independent oil and gas company concentrating on US-based oil and gas from the Rockies, where he is currently the CEO and Chairman. Since 2020, he has been the founder and CEO of Alercell, a biotechnology company specializing in delivering innovative in vitro rapid diagnostic tests.

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Patents by Inventor Frederic Scheer
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