OUR EXPERTS

CHAIRMAN

Marco Castaldi, PhD, is a Fulbright Global Fellow, ASME and AIChE Technical Fellow, and award-winning chemical engineer with over 100 publications, seven patents, and a career spanning industry, academia, and national lab collaborations.

FELLOW IN ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY, BAKER RICE UNIVERSITY / ADVISOR, CIRCULAR ECONOMY AT MSCI INC.

Dr. Rachel A. Meidl, Ph.D., CHMM, is a distinguished fellow at Rice University and advisor to MSCI Inc., with 28 years of expertise in sustainability, circular economy, and energy policy.

OWNER OF SPG CONSULTING

Stephen Goff, owner of SpG Consulting, has 35+ years in waste-to-energy, specializing in technology and process optimization for methods like combustion, gasification, and pyrolysis.

CHEMIST, GROUP LEADER AT ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY

Massimiliano "Max" Delferro is a senior chemist at Argonne and the University of Chicago, specializing in recycling and catalysis, with 150+ publications, 30 patents, and leadership in circular economy research.

PROFESSOR AT BIJ UNIVERSITEIT GENT, CTO AT CAPTURE

Kevin Van Geem, professor at Ghent University, specializes in thermochemical engineering with 300+ publications, three ERC grants, and leads a steam cracking pilot plant.

CHEMICAL ENGINEER, LEAD AT BOTTLE CONSORTIUM

Gregg T. Beckham, Senior Research Fellow and Group Leader at NREL, leads interdisciplinary research on biomass conversion and plastics recycling, and serves as CEO of the DOE-funded BOTTLE Consortium focused on sustainable materials.

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR AT SPHERA

Chris Koffler is the Technical Director for the Americas at Sphera, with 20+ years of experience in sustainability consulting, leading LCA projects across sectors, contributing to ISO standards, serving on the ACLCA board, and teaching at Yale and Harvard.