Co-founder & CTO of C1 Bio
Petrochemical supply chains are fragile, carbon-intensive, and increasingly misaligned with where the world is heading. At the same time, vast volumes of underutilized industrial waste streams, such as agricultural residues, chemical byproducts, and off-gases, are generated every day with no pathway to high-value markets.
I’m a chemical engineer, and I believe sustainable chemicals shouldn’t have to compete on ideals alone; they should compete on economics. The key is pairing high-value molecules with abundant, low-cost feedstocks that already exist within industrial ecosystems.
I lead the technical development and commercialization strategy behind our biochemical platform to produce 4-vinylphenol, a specialty chemical used in the semiconductor industry, directly from crude glycerol, and inexpensive and abundant byproduct of soap and biodiesel production. Our approach is designed to unlock new revenue from these industrial waste streams and provide more sustainable chemicals with the same performance.
4VP is our first product. We have a series of candidate chemicals used across the resins and coatings industries. The goal isn’t just to make a greener version of an existing molecule. It’s to build a scalable model for converting low-cost, sustainable inputs into premium chemical outputs—creating margin resilience, supply security, and measurable environmental benefit.