Team - PolyCycl

Amit Tandon

Founder & CEO

Amit is founder and CEO of PolyCycl. He holds several international patents related to chemical recycling and has been instrumental in leading PolyCycl’s team in building various advance recycling technologies across 4 generations of development....

A hands-on engineer, Amit also leads PolyCycl's passion quotient and organizational strategy. A strong evangelist for the role of chemical recycling in building a circular economy for waste plastics, he has presented at various sustainability conferences, including at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Denver, SxSw Eco - Austin, Clean Energy Forum - Spain, Cleantech Forum - San Francisco and Asia Pacific Energy Conference - Manila.

Before his foray to develop environmental technologies, Amit was working with semiconductor startups and Fortune 500 companies in Silicon Valley, including with Sun Microsystems where he was part of the methodology team working on the cutting edge Niagara super-processor chip.

He can be reached at amit.tandon@polycycl.com

Hari Malhotra

CFO

Hari is a chartered accountant and a senior finance operations management professional, having more than 24 years of experience in the areas of finance, accounting, taxation and compliance. He brings to PolyCycl deep experience with financial accounting & audit management, corporate finance, risk & compliance, taxation adherence, change management & functionality improvement....

Hari also brings expertise in international finance,having worked in the past with multinationals such as Groz- Beckert, Caltex Lubricants and Essar Telecom.

Dr. Ramakrishnan Iyer

VP Engineering

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, Topack, UHDE and AutoDynamics.

Accomplished scaleup specialist - successfully scaled several projects from research to commercialization (100X+). Expertise with design modeling and simulation using software such as Aspen Plus, Design II, PRO II, HTFS etc.

Highly skilled with process design engineering, PFD | P&ID preparation, thermodynamic modeling and design, study of reaction kinetics and development of correlation models, design and scale up of thermal reactors, equipment specifications, hydraulic calculations, detailed design of distillation systems.

Deft in project management activities including planning, scope management, engineering design, cost estimation, resource administration, hiring, project tracking and completion of project within specified parameters.

Extensive experience with commissioning and operation of petrochemical plants, modeling of refinery plants and advanced process control (APC) in delayed coker, crude unit and FCC.

Eugene Jones

A serial entrepreneur, Gene brings to PolyCycl over 30 years of experience with waste management and recycling in senior executive level positions. Over the past 30 years, he has successfully founded, build and sold several businesses including Advanced Derived Fuels and Hazardous Substance and Waste Management Research Inc....

Gene is based in Florida and leads PolyCycl’s business development initiatives in USA in an advisory role. He assists PolyCycl with building strategic relationships with waste recycling and municipal firms and brings a vast network of associations in recycling sector from his work in organizing conferences such as the Waste-to-Fuels, Southeast Recycling Conference and Trade Show, Florida BioEnergy Association, Recycle Florida Today, International Society of Technical & Environmental Professionals Inc and the National Conference on Waste Exchange and Resource Reuse.

Gene also serves as CEO of Southern Waste Information Exchange (SWIX), a non-profit which has since 1981 been assisting businesses and municipalities with their waste management issues.

Larry Buckle

Larry is an inventor and senior executive with extensive experience in engineering, development, operation and management of solid waste processing systems. He is the former CTO of Organic Energy Corporation - an advanced solid waste separation and renewable energy company and heads IES - an engineering and environmental service firm for waste management and wastewater treatment. ...

Larry spearheads PolyCycl's supply chain efforts in an advisory role and brings to the company deep experience with operation and management of one of the most advanced dirty MRFs (material recycling facilities) in California. An insider to the plastic to oil sector, Larry worked closely from 2000-08 with Smuda's process to convert polyolefinic waste plastics to liquid fuels and is also an inventor for a process to depolymerize PETE plastics back to its original constituents. Aside, he has also been the facilities and environmental engineer for the city of Roseville (CA) for 12 years.

Larry has an A.S. in Physics from Ricks College, a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Brigham Young University, and a Diploma in Emerging Leader Development from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

Biresh Thakur

Biresh is a competent industrial engineer with over 30 years of techno-managerial executive experience. An accomplished engineer with design and development of new components, Biresh oversees mechanical design, equipment prototyping and quality assurance at PolyCycl....

Biresh brings to PolyCycl significant experience with development of new engineering products and expansion into new markets. A black belt in quality management and a certified Kaizen Champion, he's adept with quality requirements and management systems including with 5S, 7 QC Tools , FMEA, Poka Yoke, DWM and TEI.

He has a Bachelors in industrial engineering and an MBA from U-21, Singapore.

Dr. Edward Beardsworth

Strategic Advisor

Dr. Edward Beardsworth brings to PolyCycl a deep, nuanced understanding of the cleantech industry and ecosystem gained over a 30+ year period as a physicist, technology scout and a strategic advisor to corporate and investor clients. After earning a PhD in physics, Ed was in the group at Brookhaven National Lab that undertook interdisciplinary analyses of energy systems during the first energy crisis of the 1970s. Subsequently, he held positions... at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and established an independent consultancy, Energy Technology Advisors to provide numerous utility clients with detailed knowledge of energy R&D at the national laboratories.

Ed was also the Technical Director for The Hub Lab, managing a series of R&D grants in revolutionary energy science. As Associate Director at Jane Capital Partners, he worked with major energy corporations to develop programs for strategic technology ventures and acquisitions. He has advised Nth Power and the Cleantech Group in their formative stages, and currently supports Garage Ventures and the Cleantech Open. He's based in Palo Alto, California.

K D Fatnani

Technical Advisor

Mr. Fatnani has a B.Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT, Mumbai and brings over 30+ years of experience with design, engineering and project execution of large chemical and petroleum projects. He has been the divisional director at Mott MacDonald, India where he was responsible for business development and execution of numerous complex projects in chemical and refining space.

Dinesh Deshpande

Technical Advisor

Mr. Deshpande is a senior management professional with a B. Chem degree from University Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT), Mumbai and a Global Advanced Management Program from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Mumbai. He has headed strategic, operations and project functions across multiple refineries in India and retired in 2014 as Executive Director, HPCL.

Ankit Goyal

Senior Process Engineer

Ankit is a senior chemical engineer and oversees technology aspects related to basic engineering package, trials and regression analysis, study of thermodynamic and reaction kinetics. A conscientious environmentalist, Ankit sees his work at PolyCycl as part of using his technical skills to solve real world challenges.
He has a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering and an MBA from UICET where he graduated top of his class.