Michael Samuel Email & Phone Number

Sugar Land, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

Industrial Biotechnology ConsultingManagement Services ▪ Investment due diligence risk mitigation ▪ Develop organizational structure ▪ Build external stakeholder relationships within industry and academia ▪ Collaborate with internal stakeholders to define product offerings, screening criteria, and KPIs ▪ Develop go to market strategies for new product offerings ▪ Create and foster strategic business relationships for strategic partnerships and fundraising ▪ Develop and manage intellectual property ▪ SMB valuationsMarketing & Business Development Services ▪ Product Design and Market Fit ▪ GTM analyses ▪ New market analyses ▪ Client Services/Customer Experience Management ▪ SEO ▪ Blog supportOperations Services ▪ Design commercial industrial biotechnology processes ▪ Logistics and supply chain management ▪ Biochemical optimization ▪ Scale-up equipment design and installation ▪ Pilot and commercial scale global deployments ▪ CMO managementInfrastructure Services ▪ Laboratory Design and Equipment selection ▪ Fermentation scale-up ▪ Create and implement R&D system improvements ▪ Product formulation and development

▪ Developed go to market strategies for new product offerings.▪ Created and fostered business relationships for strategic partnerships and fundraising with supermajors and VCs. ▪ Developed and manage intellectual property. ▪ Managed P&L and employ strategies to safeguard assets through operational efficiencies.▪ Created organizational value ultimately leading to acquisition.

Houston, Texas Area

Hired to develop products, market strategy, and field deployment for Subsurface Carbon Capture & Utilization

Houston, Texas Area

★Personally developed microbial consortium and nutrient formulation for MEOR that increased oil production 50% in a 3 well pilot for a period of 6-10 months in a hyper saline and elevated temperature environment.●Translated opportunity and shared value to key decision makers advancing the sales cycle.●Strengthened and maintained existing client relationships with personalized service, unique problem solving techniques, and response. ● Managed $3MM revenue in international projects.●Managed logistics and chemical blending revisions created safer and more cost-effective operation.●Designed and demonstrated specialized anoxic sampling equipment for oil field fluids collection.●Managed field trials of the following water treatment systems: hydraulic and mechanical IGF, and various chemical adsorption technologies. ●Ensured existing clients expectations in field service and process implementation were exceeded.●Collaborated with technology team for field trial of proprietary water treatment systems.●Designed and manufactured 6 nutrient injection skids. Mechanical design considerations include: dosage pump, air compressor, SCADA package, and mass flow controller selection.. ●Managed a 3-month paraffin removal program of 20 gas lift oil producing wells in Ahmedabad, India. ●Established the microbiology laboratory at company inception including, procurement of equipment, constructing specialized equipment, and creating standard operating procedures.●Utilized computed tomography to study oil saturation changes induced by MEOR in rock core samples at the DOE-NETL laboratory in West Virginia. ●Collaborated with a super major in using magnetic resonance imaging to visualize relative oil and water saturation changes attributed to MEOR in rock core samples.●Led fermentation operations to scale microbial consortium for field deployment.

Business development and relationship creation. Technical design of novel equipment.

Applied research led to successful venture capital fundraising. Laboratory design and infrastructure build out. CAPEX negotiation.

Warrenville, Illinois, United States

▪ Implemented C1 cellulosic fermentation utilizing synthesis gas as a microbial substrate to produce ethanol. ▪ Established the laboratory including equipment and supply procurement. ▪ Developed lab and pilot scale fermentation plans.

Des Plaines, Illinois, United States

▪ Studied biomass conversion techniques that allowed for methane production from varied waste streams. Major considerations included fermenter design, automation, and monitoring.▪ Evaluated the use of membrane technology to remove hexavalent chromium from contaminated drinking water. ▪Completed feasibility study for the remedial action of a superfund site. ▪Addressed DOE Funding Opportunities.▪Maintained laboratory operations.▪Designed and demonstrated a test cell that allows real time analyses of natural gas pipeline corrosion.●Studied and applied forensic techniques for environmental contaminant identification.● Developed an original method for microbial hydrogen production using hollow fiber membranes.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Microbiology