The six founding member companies of the new group are Arkema, BASF Corporation, Cereplast Inc., DuPont, NatureWorks LLC and Telles (a Metabolix/ADM joint venture).
Fernando Telles Ribeiro (born April 12, 1938 in Guanabara, Rio de Janeiro) is a male diver from Brazil.
Among the international authors he has written on or interviewed are Ee Tiang Hong (Malaysia/Australia), Richard Berengarten (UK), Edgard Telles Ribeiro (Brazil), Basim Furat (Iraq/New Zealand), Ken Bolton (Australia) and John Kinsella (Australia).
Ferraz Jr. is currently a consultant for the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, professor at the Autonomous University of Law, professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and professor of the Department of Philosophy of Law, Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Largo San Francisco, where his predecessor in the chair was Prof. Goffredo da Silva Telles Jr.