I lead the investment practice in Cleantech, Advanced Material and Bio-based materials areas. We in early-stage deeptech startups globally.

Now a publicly traded company under NYSE: GWH

GC International is a wholly owned subsidiary of PTT Global Chemical Plc. (“GC”) listed on the stock exchange of Thailand with assets more than US$ 15 billions.As a founding member of the corporate venture capital team, I set up and recruited the investment team members. In this role, I developed the investment thesis and oversaw the entire investment life cycle with primary focus in Cleantech, Advanced Material, Biotech/ Life Science, and Industrial Digitals. My portfolio companies included:- ESS (now NYSE: GWH), actnano, Phase Change Energy Solutions, Arevo, Inkbit

GC Innovation America is a wholly owned subsidiary of PTT Global Chemical Company. We serve as a technology scouting and corporate venture capital arm for PTTGC focusing on Advanced Materials, Biotech, Cleantech and Industrial Digital areas. I led the External Innovation program, introducing several startups to the corporation. We had executed multiple pilot testing programs with startups from US, Canada, UK, etc., and participated in an open innovation consortium.Served as an Industrial Advisory Board of the NSF's IUCRC Center for Bioplastics and Biocomposites (CB2)

- Developed new biopolyol product applications and supported customer qualification process- Managed product stewardship, product literature, and regulatory compliance- Responsible Care coordinator

Managed an R&D team of engineers to support activities in process modeling, heat and material balance, downstream separation process design, scale-up, technology transfer, process modeling, process flowsheet development, and process economics analysis.Oversaw pilot plant operations in multiple locations to build the design basis to construct a 30 MMlb/yr biomanufacturing facility to convert renewable sugar and carbon dioxide to make biochemicals.Managed the JDA program to develop downstream derivative chemicals.Specialties: project management, downstream process separation, process synthesis, modeling, heat and material balances, cost estimation, economic evaluation, liquid-liquid extraction, distillationSimulation Tools: Aspen Plus, Aspen Economic Evaluation, Matlab, VBA, evaporative cooling crystallization, ion exchange, chromatography, filtration

- Evaluated economics of various chemical processes and new technologies, including carbon capture and sequestration technologies, chemicals from biochemical routes. Provide strategic recommendation on new product/ process development. Authored 20+ technical reports.- Developed process flowsheet, heat and material balance simulation model for new processes, including reaction, separation, and environmental systems. Develop first-principles process models (both dynamic and steady-state models) of various systems.- Familiar with process synthesis methodologies and tools. Had simulated reactive distillation, extractive azeotrope distillation, electrolyte, and other complex systems