Personal Supporters - Renewable Carbon Initiative

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Personal Supporters are experts in bioeconomy, circular economy, CO₂ utilisation, chemical recycling or related sectors. Through their professional knowledge and experience, they understand the need for a fundamental change in the chemical industry and endorse the Renewable Carbon Initiative.

Here they show their personal support for a strategy towards renewable carbon.They become visible on the RCI website and have the chance to find like-minded experts.

As a small token of appreciation, Personal Supporters will receive a badge that identifies you as a pioneer in renewable carbon.
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These 179 experts already support the Initiative

Name	Company / Institute / Consultant	Comment
Stefan Radlmayr	silphie paper gmbh	Nature has always been generous. But why use its generosity of millions of years ago in fossil resources, when living, growing biomass offers zero carbon, renewable alternatives?
Jakob Köchermann	DBFZ Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum gemeinnützige GmbH	RCI brings together stakeholders from industry and research to jointly drive the transition from a fossil-based linear to a sustainable circular chemical industry. DBFZ is working on platform chemicals from biomass, so we support this initiative 100%. Let's make our planet great again!
Ana Maria Bravo	Bravo Strategies	The renewable Carbon initiative brings together three promising approaches to minimize the use of fossil Carbon, and to help the EU meet its ambitious net-zero emission by 2050. I am a proud supporter!
Anindya Mukherjee	i2i LLC/GO!PHA	Renewing existing carbon in materials specially those materials that can replace fossil plastic is not only essential, it actually creates a business opportunity that can and will be profitable for entrepreneurs, investors and consumers! And that’s the only way to go! Yippie-I-oh!!
Sanjay Dodiya	Aditya Birla Science & Technology Co. Pvt. Ltd.	Its our responsibility to give sustainable future to upcoming generation and renewable carbon is precious gift to them. We must focus on reducing carbon (CO2) capture costs and efficient conversion technologies to mimic nature. Nature fixes CO2 via photosynthesis and produces biomass, I believe answers to renewable carbon lies in making artificial photosynthesis - food & combined with green hydrogen to produce chemicals.
Robert Nolles	Cosun Beet Company - Biobased Experts	Being one of the Cosun Biobased Experts, I strongly support the Renewable Carbon Initiative! Contributing to the circular economy is what drives us.
Sebastiano Garroni	University of Sassari
Katharina Resch-Fauster	Montanuniversitaet Leoben/Materials Science and Testing of Polymers	With a research focus on sustainable materials and green engineering I would like to support this great and important initiative!
Barbara Olioso	The Green Chemist Consultancy
Claudio Dunan	Bioceres SA	Claudio Dunan (Director of Strategy of Bioceres SA): Focused on the development of innovative solutions for the transition to carbon neutrality in agriculture and the replacement of fossil carbon in the energy, fuel, chemical, and building industries.
Octavian Partenie	TNO VoltaChem	Great initiative in a rapidly growing field that's essential to reduce waste and emissions. TNO is also part of this movement and I'd be eager to offer my support. My knowledge areas are hydrogen production, hydrocarbon processing and techno-economic assessment of novel technologies.
Elsbeth Roelofs	MVO Nederland	At MVO Nederland we aim to accelerate the establishment of the new economy, that is climate neutral, circular, nature positive, inclusive and built around fair supply chains. As program manager Sustainable Chemical Business I think the Renewable Carbon Initiative points out very clearly where we should be heading for the chemical sector. In Europe and the rest of the world.
Sophia Opperskalski	Textile Exchange	To limit global warming and accelerate the urgent transition from fossil carbon to renewable carbon, we have to collaborate and act now. This is the reason why I decided to become a personal supporter of the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI). With a background in the textile industry, I am keen to explore how we can accelerate the transition to renewable carbon in the textile industry. Let's collaborate and accelerate the transition now!
Jacques Chatenet	Blanchon
John Ephraim Torres	INSEAD	My background combines science, engineering, and business. I spent more than 3 years teaching chemistry at two universities, and during my last year of teaching, I co-founded an education company in which I managed the finance and strategy functions for 4 years before selling my shares to strategic investors. While teaching, I also pursued a master’s degree in chemical engineering and studied the utilization of biomass as sources of energy and materials. It was during my research that I became particularly interested in the cleantech space. Since 2018, in line with my interest in cleantech and business, I started engaging in business consulting work with a cleantech company. I work on pre-feasibility studies for ventures in bioenergy, biofuels, and sustainable agriculture. I conduct both technical and financial evaluations, as well as market analysis and operational analysis. I also give recommendations on how to enter the market and how to set up and operate the new companies. My next goal is to join a strategy consulting firm or venture capital firm that focuses on the cleantech space. To prepare for this goal, I will be joining INSEAD’s MBA Program from January to December 2021.
Simelys Hernandez	Politecnico di Torino	I'm working in the development of sustainable future technologies aimed to reduce fossil fuel-C utilization and I believe that initiatives like this can be very helpful !... Glad to be able to support it.
Jagdeep Singh	Avantium	Our Future is determined by the decisions that we take in our Present. I believe that our future will be prosperous only when we are in complete sync with Mother Nature. And this renewable carbon initiative is one of those decisions of our present that will lead us to our prosperous future.
Keith Flitner	Continental Controls Corporation
Leyla Farhang		Let’s pass a healthy planet to future generations!
Aleksi Palmroth	Arctic Biomaterials
Bojarajan N	Edelweiss Gallagher Insurance Brokers Limited
Deepa Moharir	Raj Speciality Additives P L	‘Diamonds are forever, how can carbon be any different?’ Very happy to know that a small step towards a better environment has been taken. Though I have a very small enterprise, our major decisions are based on how it will impact the nature. To really bring about a massive change we all need to collaborate, co-operate and work towards leaving a greener earth for our children. Giants who have taken the lead, need to build an army of carbon warriors by creating awareness and educating micro, small and medium enterprises around the globe for noticeable transformation. I will be honored to be able to contribute in whatever minuscule way I can.
Oğuz Tosun	Life Enerji	Climate crisis is striking the planet Earth in ways that the humanity has never come across with to date. In response, carbon emissions have to be curbed urgently. I am ready to faciliate all the carbon neutral commitments as your carbon carbon killers!
Konstantin Sokurenko		The nature provides the resources for our life. Yes, we are using them well. Based on the major rule of physices: "No energy is going lost. It will be transfermed or/and transmited." We are calling the products which we don't need any more after our utilisation of resources as waste. This is completely wrong - those are also resources which have been transformed or/and transmited in another form. We have to learn to be smart enougth so finally we can use those resources.
Keshav Goela	GAS LAB Asia
Vishnupriya Bhakthavatsalam	Reliance Industries ltd	I wish to participate in this great inititive!
Ramesh Bhujade	Process Engineering Professional, Independent Consultant	Process Engineering professional, having technology, engineering and management experience of over 39 years in wide spectrum of industries - Bio-economy, CO2 management, Oil & Gas, Refining, Petrochemicals and Polymers. The experience covers entire gamut of process technology value chain - from heading the R&D to engineering and production management.
Charles Ross	Royal College of Art	Very interested in this whole principle; have been doing work with ReGenerative Agriculture - which offers a natural way to store carbon in the ground.
Kunal Shah	Anaergia Inc	I sincerely support the Renewable Carbon Initiative. Fossil fuel based gas networks can be decarbonized by Biomethane produced by Anaerobic Digestion of Organic waste/feedstock. Similarly Biochar can be made from Digestate which can be a renewable way to return carbon back to soil. Happy to support this initiative from the perspective of Bioenergy, Biomethane, Biochar from Organic waste.
Thomas Lingard	Unilever	This is a very exciting initiative and we're delighted to be involved.
Patrick CREHAN	CKA
Geoff Isaac	University of Technology Sydney	PhD candidate interested in how product designers are responding to the environmental crisis by experimenting with alternatives to virgin fossil-based plastics. I am focsuing on case studies of chairs using recycled plastics and bioplastics.
Arnaud CLAUDE	CABAMIX	Great to be part of this initiative for a smarter sustainability of our industry.
Eelco Blum	Avantium Chemicals B.V.	I fully support any renewable carbon initiatives. Sugars are the new oil. Working towards a fossil free future!
Michael Omatsola-Morgan	Individual	I am a mechanical engineering student researching biomass conversion to renewable carbon fuels such as biodiesel. This initiative is exactly what I have been looking for!
Ronald Wevers	Dow Benelux BV	Let's make sure that we minimize emissions and maximise the materials in use.
Rao Jagdish	Royal Dutch Shell
Bert Bosman	SABIC	I support the Renewable Carbon Initiative and ideas behind it. In order to curb climate change it is absolutely necessary to start using carbon in a sustainable, circular way!
EBRU OZKUCUK GULER	ISKO
Mahmud Shahid	AZ Tannery	We are supporter of sustainability in the production of leather.
Tomas Vucurevic	BRAIND® Ingredient Brand Strategy Consulting	BRAIND® is a strategic brand consulting firm that helps sustainable and circular materials, processes & technologies to be known by conscious consumers and stakeholders in order to drive the transformation towards a green economy.
Christian von Malotki	ECHD CONSULTING	"This is the right first step into a thoughtful future and I want to be part of it!"
Claire Dumas	INRAE	I am an expert in environmental biotechnology. I am working on biological transformation of solid/urban wastes to organic acids. I am also currently developing a bioprocess for CO2 utilization to methane or organic acids.
Reza Ranjbar	cpi	Dear Sir/Madam, I strongly support this initiative and would like very much to be a part of it. Best regards, Reza Ranjbar
Joop Groen	Biorizon - Circular Biobased Delta - Viride
Barbara Olfe-Kräutlein	Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
Christian Pinon	Triact	Triact organises courses in Oleochemistry and related consultancy.
Drishti Masand	Lux Research
Martijn de Graaff	VoltaChem/TNO	Implementing renewable carbon is crucial for battling climate change. The sooner we can establish a circular carbon value chain, the better!
Jason Keehn	Self	Past Senior Event Designer on relevant B2B conferences, including Bio-Based Chemicals & Materials, Sustainable Consumer Products, Community Choice Energy Summit, Bio-based Partnering, Microgrids, Renewable Energy Buyers Summit, & Metabolic Engineering for Infocast.
Bert Lagrain	KU Leuven	Chemicals and materials production from renewable resources is a very important and rapidly growing field and forms the basis of the circular economy.
Andreas Haider	Kompetenzzentrum Holz GmbH	As representative of a R&D institute dealing with sustainable topics in many fields I see this RCI initiative very important for our future.
Henk van Liempt	Scientists for Future	Working for a sustainable society, utilizing only contemporary solar energy.
BHARATH GANDU	Ariel University
Ulrich Heinze	UHC Chemieberatung
Cédric Reuter	TH Köln
Horst Beck	Henkel AG&Co.KGaA	No doubt, that we need to stop using fossil resources, which all end today in our linear economy as CO2 in the atmosphere or as waste in land-fills and oceans. We need to come to real circular economy where we use Carbon within a loop of circularity. The missing Carbon in the loop (for growth and filling gabs) should come from bio-based sources or from CO2 only. I really like the logo of renewable Carbon as it makes clear that there is no competition between those three sources, but only towards fossil sources.
Chaitanya Joshi	Praj Industries Ltd.
Joachim Kreysa	Retired	Having worked in and for the BioEconomy, I believe that CCU is an important component for replacing fossil carbon, and I am convinced that it should play its role in our move towards a carbon neutral, or better carbon negative economy.
Joel Stone	ConVergInce Advisers LLC	Joel’s participation and engagement with The Renewable Carbon Initiative is driven by his long-term commitment to environmental stewardship and sustainability using industrial biotechnology to offer solutions: “I think the RCI platform will allow encourage a transformation and reinvention of the chemical industry and all other industries and governments to engage interactively to identify a unified pathway for maintaining an environment that our children and grandchildren can feel safe in for generations to come.”
Monique Wekking	TNO / Biorizon
James McGregor	University of Sheffield
Kees Kwant	RVO, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate	Great initiative to work jointly on renewable Carbon through the Circular and Biobased Economy and to get it implemented!
Kamaljit Sood	Sainc Energy Limited
Roger Samson	Resource Efficient Agricultural Production-Canada	This is a well thought out approach that has a high potential to mitigate the problem. We are breeding and scaling up high yielding biomass warm season grasses for less than best farmlands in temperate regions of the world.
Amizon Azizan	Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia	Support RCI with my best commitment via university research for the benefit of the bioenergy industry.
Enrique Espi	Repsol
Shailendra Singh	SustainMantra	Renewable Carbon is one of the topmost significant initiative that if we as humans are able to crack, we can stop the degradation of our planet & begin the process of regenerating our natural capital!
Eoin Taggart	Coillte	I would love to become a personal supporter of this great initiative and try to bring some knowledge back to our company and the Irish forestry industry as a whole.
Robert Stevenson	American Laboratory	I'm very interested in sustainable chemistry and sequestering atmospheric carbon.
Derya Sara	Denge Kimya
Philippe FONTA	SCRUM-Consult	The creation of the RCI is a tremendous achievement and the beginning of an even more tremendous paradigm shift. Congratulations to the Nova Institute and the companies who decided to launch this initiative and I hope that many more companies will join the process. RCI will clearly be a pillar of the New International Carbon Economy (NICE).
Olivier Messager	IPInside	Back in 2011, I initiated the Carbon Management Flagship initiative at KAUST in Saudi Arabia. Since then, I do provide management consulting services in the area of CCUS using expertises developed on key technologies like geophysics, clean combustion, porous materials and membrane as well as catalysis.
Katy Armstrong	The University of Sheffield
Angela Smits	Croda	Supplier of renewable ingredients for sustainable and durable materials.
Jürgen Pfitzer	Tecnaro	One of the first 104 supporters!
Ulrich Schörken	TH Köln	One of the first 104 supporters!
Wolfgang Wach	Südzucker AG Mannheim/Ochsenfurt	One of the first 104 supporters!
René Bethmann	VAUDE Sport GmbH & Co. KG	One of the first 104 supporters!
Marjo Ketonen	Arctic Biomaterials Oy	One of the first 104 supporters!
Erik Pijlman	KNN Cellulose B V / Recell	One of the first 104 supporters!
Jeremiah Dutton	Trifilon	One of the first 104 supporters!
Peter Greven	Peter Greven GmbH & Co. KG	One of the first 104 supporters!
Marcus Kremers	Airborne / Zwart Licht	One of the first 104 supporters!
Sean D. Simpson	LanzaTech Ltd.	One of the first 104 supporters!
Philippe Boulanger	Carbon Recycling International	One of the first 104 supporters!
Gunnar Holen	Nordic Blue Crude AS	One of the first 104 supporters!
Mark Reinders	HempFlax BV	One of the first 104 supporters!
Gijs van der Zanden	Chemploy	One of the first 104 supporters!
Rafael Cayuela	Dow Europe GmbH	One of the first 104 supporters!
Helmut Nägele	Tecnaro GmbH	One of the first 104 supporters!
Seb Sbuttoni	Trans-Global Events Ltd.	One of the first 104 supporters!
John Vos	BTG Biomass Technology Group B.V.	One of the first 104 supporters!
Errit Bekkering	Chemport Europe	One of the first 104 supporters!
Frank Kensy	b.fab GmbH / C1 Bioeconomy	One of the first 104 supporters!
James Philp	OECD	One of the first 104 supporters!
Ludo Diels	Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO)	One of the first 104 supporters!
Matthias W. Gluth	Lenzing AG	One of the first 104 supporters!
Barna Kovacs	BIOEAST INITIATIVE	One of the first 104 supporters!
Keith Simons	SHV Energy	One of the first 104 supporters!
Harriette Bos	Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research	One of the first 104 supporters!
Lieve Hoflack	Calidris Bio bvba	One of the first 104 supporters!
Veronika Reinberg	alchemia-nova GmbH	One of the first 104 supporters!
Yvonne van der Meer	Maastricht University	One of the first 104 supporters!
Dirk Carrez	Clever Consult / Bio-Based Industries Consortium (BIC)	One of the first 104 supporters!
Thomas Müller-Kirschbaum	Henkel AG & Co. KGaA	One of the first 104 supporters!
Martin Treder	Interessengemeinschaft für Thermische Abfallbehandlungsanlagen in Deutschland ITAD e.V.	One of the first 104 supporters!
Marco Veselka	CropEnergies AG	One of the first 104 supporters!
Johnny Beaugrand	INRA	One of the first 104 supporters!
Jukka Kantola	NC Partnering Ltd / World Bioeconomy Forum	One of the first 104 supporters!
Bianchi Sauro	Berner Fachhochschule Architektur, Holz und Bau	One of the first 104 supporters!
Wojciech Pawlikowski	Noweko / Plastest Sp. zo.o.(Ltd)	One of the first 104 supporters!
Heleen De Wever	VITO	One of the first 104 supporters!
Andreas Kohl	Verbio AG	One of the first 104 supporters!
Stafford Sheehan	Air Co.	One of the first 104 supporters!
Haralabos (Akis) Zorbas	Industrielle Biotechnologie Bayern Netzwerk GmbH (IBB)	One of the first 104 supporters!
Christian Bonten	Institut für Kunststofftechnik (IKT) - Universität Stuttgart	One of the first 104 supporters!
Dennis Herzberg	CLIB - Cluster Industrielle Biotechnologie e.V.	One of the first 104 supporters!
Sarah Refai	CLIB -Cluster Industrielle Biotechnologie 2021 e.V.	One of the first 104 supporters!
Philippe Fonta	SCRUM-consult	One of the first 104 supporters!
Caroli Buitenhuis	Green Serendipity	One of the first 104 supporters!
Carmen Michels	FKuR Kunststoff GmbH	One of the first 104 supporters!
Peter Styring	The University of Sheffield - CO2Chem	One of the first 104 supporters!
Chrystelle Verhoest	Laborelec	One of the first 104 supporters!
André Bardow	ETH Zürich	One of the first 104 supporters!
Arne Kätelhön	Carbon Minds GmbH	One of the first 104 supporters!
Alastair Sanderson	Unilever Research and Development	One of the first 104 supporters!
Christian Patermann	Government Adviser of North-Rhine Westfalia on KBBE / European Commission	One of the first 104 supporters!
Wouter De Weirdt	Tectero Bvba	One of the first 104 supporters!
Michael Knutzen	MWK COnsulting	One of the first 104 supporters!
Christian Schweitzer	bse Engineering Leipzig GmbH	One of the first 104 supporters!
Patrick Zimmermann	FKuR Kunststoff GmbH	One of the first 104 supporters!
Birgit Bonefeld	Aarhus University / BB Textile Biology	One of the first 104 supporters!
Suvi Haimi	Sulapac	One of the first 104 supporters!
Jan Ravenstijn	Jan Ravenstijn Consulting / GO!PHA	One of the first 104 supporters!
Milica Folic	Haldor Topsøe A/S	One of the first 104 supporters!
Frank Brouwer	Stahl International B.V.	One of the first 104 supporters!
Mikael Lindström	RISE Research Institutes of Sweden	One of the first 104 supporters!
Jurjen Spekreijse	BTG - Biomass Technology Group	One of the first 104 supporters!
Wolfgang Baltus	Wobalt Expedition Consultancy	One of the first 104 supporters!
Fons Janssen	Green Deal 4 Youth	One of the first 104 supporters!
Stefan Roeraade	Photanol BV	One of the first 104 supporters!
Joachim Venus	Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik Potsdam-Bornim e.V. (ATB)	One of the first 104 supporters!
Doris De Guzman	Tecnon OrbiChem Ltd.	One of the first 104 supporters!
Andries Olie	Cosun Beet Company	One of the first 104 supporters!
Martin K. Patel	University of Geneva - Chair for Energy Efficiency	One of the first 104 supporters!
Sascha Schriever	RWTH Aachen - Institut für Textiltechnik (ITA)	One of the first 104 supporters!
Sten Wranik	bse Engineering Leipzig GmbH	One of the first 104 supporters!
Christiaan Bolck	Wageningen UR	One of the first 104 supporters!
Manfred Kircher	KADIB - Kircher Advice in Bioeconomy & CLIB - Cluster Industrielle Biotechnologie	One of the first 104 supporters!
Reinier Grimbergen	TNO Voltachem	One of the first 104 supporters!
Samir Rachidi	IRESEN	One of the first 104 supporters!
Olivier Floch	Unilever U.K. Central Resources Limited	One of the first 104 supporters!
Gero Leson	Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps / Leson & Associates	One of the first 104 supporters!
Samir Somaiya	Godavari Biorefineries Ltd / Somaiya Vidyavihar	One of the first 104 supporters!
Christian Breyer	Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT)	One of the first 104 supporters!
Olav Aagaard	Vinventions SA	One of the first 104 supporters!
Mariam Ispahani	Sonali Bioplastics	One of the first 104 supporters!
Gudbrand Rødsrud	Borregaard Lignotech	One of the first 104 supporters!
Frank van Noord	Cosun Beet Company	One of the first 104 supporters!
Erik Colstee	DeMonchy	One of the first 104 supporters!
Asger Strange Olesen	COWI A/S	One of the first 104 supporters!
Deepak Pant	VITO	One of the first 104 supporters!
Klaas Jan Schouten	Avantium Technologies B.V.	One of the first 104 supporters!
David Winickoff	OECD	One of the first 104 supporters!
Lars Börger	Neste SA	One of the first 104 supporters!
Andreas Kiesel	Universität Hohenheim - Institute Crop Science	One of the first 104 supporters!
Thomas Gries	RWTH Aachen University	One of the first 104 supporters!
Maija Pohjakallio	Sulapac Ltd	One of the first 104 supporters!
Nicholas Flanders	Opus 12, Inc	One of the first 104 supporters!
Juha Lehtonen	VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd	One of the first 104 supporters!
Wim Soetaert	Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant / Gent University	One of the first 104 supporters!
Massimo Bregola	Cargill S.r.L.	One of the first 104 supporters!
Pieter Imhof	BioBTX BV	One of the first 104 supporters!
Fabien Resweber	MCPP France	One of the first 104 supporters!
Jeroen van Dorp	ChainCraft	One of the first 104 supporters!
Anuj K. Chandel	University of São Paulo (USP)	One of the first 104 supporters!
Michael North	University of York	One of the first 104 supporters!
Manuela Köhler	Beiersdorf	One of the first 104 supporters!