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Summary
This expert is a Chemical Engineer who complements his strong background in process engineering with skills in technology and product scale-up and commercialization. He started his career in the oil and gas industry, and his recent focus is on the development of processes and products from lab/pilot scale to commercialization. Areas of interest are alternative feedstock, biofuels, biomass, bio-based chemicals, and energy, where he has applied his system integration skills and proven his ability to work across disciplines with technical and commercial functions.

Highlights

  • 20+ years of experience
  • Broad process engineering experience
  • Systems integrator
  • Techno-economic analysis
  • Multi-disciplinary approach
  • Project management

Relevant Accomplishments

  • Identified the plant location, developed the techno-economic model, and the business plan This effort lead to a fund raise of $50M, half of which through debt financing backed by a US Dept. of Agriculture loan guarantee. The plant is currently operating and one of the large bio-based chemicals plant in the world.
  • Negotiated the EPC contract, feedstock supply and product off-take agreements for the facility.
  • Carried out early stage techno-economic and SWOT analysis for AURI leading to the spin off a new animal feed venture.
  • Developed new solid fuel formulation to recover waste plastic in waste to energy applications.
  • Sold intellectual property assets.
  • Developed multiple international waste to energy projects including three of the largest manure to energy projects in the US. For two of these projects, he was responsible for the design and engineering of the system.
  • Designed and implemented process control systems that led to multimillion-dollar savings in reduced chemicals off-spec products.
  • Finalist to the 1998 Computer World award for innovation in scientific computer with the Virtual Plant project, a prototype combining process simulation and visualization to speed up process engineering, plant design and operator training.

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