Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> August 23, 1999

Fred H. Behrens – Usa Biomass Corporation (usbc)

FRED H. BEHRENS is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of USA Biomass Corp, and a Director of AMCOR Capital Corporation, where he has served in that capacity since 1979. AMCOR is the managing agent of several agricultural and real estate limited partnerships, managing over 14,000 acres located principally in California, Oregon and Texas. In the Coachella Valley, AMCOR manages over 2,000 acres, principally planted to table grapes and dates. It also controls an 8,000-acre irrigated farm located in the Columbia River Basin of eastern Oregon. From 1966 to 1971, he was on the audit staff of Arthur Andersen & Co. Between 1971 and 1973, he was a Principal in a real estate development company. From 1973 to August 1979, he was employed as a Vice President of Great Plains Western Corporation, a Whitter, California-based agricultural management company. Mr. Behrens received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Minnesota. He is a member of the California Society of CPA's and The Pacific Club, Newport Beach. Profile
TWST: First, give us a background summary, enough information to put our

readers, investors into context what you see as your business, what you

see as your company today.

Mr. Behrens: First