Experience

Mosaic Materials

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder & CEO

  • Jun 2015 - Sep 2021

  San Francisco Bay Area + Acquired by Baker Hughes in April 2022 + https://www.bakerhughes.com/company/news/baker-hughes-acquires-mosaic-materials-advance-nextgeneration-carbon-dioxide-capture +Commercialized a breakthrough MOF technology for carbon removal & carbon capture + University spin-off of a technology I developed as a graduate student + Led our product development and go-to-market strategy, including a pivot to focus on carbon removal in early 2019 + Negotiated and executed development… Show more + Acquired by Baker Hughes in April 2022 + https://www.bakerhughes.com/company/news/baker-hughes-acquires-mosaic-materials-advance-nextgeneration-carbon-dioxide-capture +Commercialized a breakthrough MOF technology for carbon removal & carbon capture + University spin-off of a technology I developed as a graduate student + Led our product development and go-to-market strategy, including a pivot to focus on carbon removal in early 2019 + Negotiated and executed development agreements with startups and Fortune 500 companies + Built and mentored a team of world-class scientists and engineers + Raised ~$11M in funding through investors, grant funding, and commercial agreements Show less



Activate

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Fellow

  • 2015 - 2017

  + Fellow of inaugural cohort of Activate/Cyclotron Road + Entrepreneurial fellowship for disruptive energy and climate technologies



University of California, Berkeley

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student Researcher

  • Aug 2008 - Jun 2015

  + PhD in Chemistry + Focus on developing and understanding new carbon capture materials + Invented the first cooperative sorbent (Nature, 2015), which represented a major conceptual advance in the development of carbon removal and carbon capture technologies + Lead author on first report to identify the potential of MOFs to be utilized as advanced DAC sorbents (JACS, 2012) + Technology was spun-off into Mosaic Materials + Broad knowledge of solid, liquid, and membrane separation… Show more + PhD in Chemistry + Focus on developing and understanding new carbon capture materials + Invented the first cooperative sorbent (Nature, 2015), which represented a major conceptual advance in the development of carbon removal and carbon capture technologies + Lead author on first report to identify the potential of MOFs to be utilized as advanced DAC sorbents (JACS, 2012) + Technology was spun-off into Mosaic Materials + Broad knowledge of solid, liquid, and membrane separation technologies + Expert at identifying and advancing a technology for challenging energy and separation problems 4 patent applications 18 peer-reviewed publications (~10,000 citations) Google Scholar Profile: https://bit.ly/3DAZBuU

• Graduate Student Instructor

  • Aug 2008 - Dec 2010



Northwestern University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Student Researcher

  • Mar 2004 - Jun 2007

  Undergraduate research in the labs of Teri Odom and Ken Poeppelmeier on metal oxide nanomaterials



Idaho National Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Student Researcher

  • Jun 2005 - Aug 2005

  Summer research internship related to nuclear energy