Dr. Srinivas Kilambi, Founder, President and Chairman, a PhD, CFA, has over 6 years of CXO experience in bio-refineries for Fortune 100 companies. Dr. Kilambi is a chemical engineer, serial entrepreneur and former CEO at $85 Billion India-based conglomerate Reliance Industries and CTO at $80 Billion Tata group. In addition to his industry management and technology accomplishments, he has delivered over 15 presentations in conferences and exhibitions spanning 7 countries; holds over 5 Indian process patents and 6 International and US patents, and has over 5 publications in leading journals.

He holds a PhD in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from University of Tennessee. In achieving his C.F.A/MBA from Institute of Chartered Financial Analyst, India, Dr. Kilambi was ranked 2nd in a field of over 5,000 candidates. He also has a MS in Chemical-Environmental Engineering from John Hopkins & Clarkson Universities with a BS in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras India.

Dr. Kilambi took the work that he did during his PhD and created a company that was later sold to Commodore and went to an IPO with him as the CTO.

Kamal Gunsagar, MSEE, is Co-Founder and CSO at Sriya Green Materials.  Mr. Gunsagar is a business-savvy entrepreneur with over 40 years of work experience.  He has worked as a senior executive or on the Board of multinationals and several startups including Empowertel Networks, Alliance Semiconductor, Vitelic, and Lara Networks, which he founded and served as CEO until the company was sold to Cypress Semiconductor in 2001.  With much of his career focused on international operations, Mr. Gunsagar has developed a plethora of global industry and government contacts. He is adept at mentoring, raising capital, developing products, and creating and managing viable businesses, and over the past decade has centered most of his attention on solar and bio-fuel technologies.

Mr. Gunsagar has patented several inventions and has presented papers at several international conferences while also being published in leading journals. He has completed all PhD course work in Electrical Engineering at Ohio State University. He holds an MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, respectively.

Presently, besides Sriya Green Materials, Mr. Gunsagar serves also on the Boards of Georgia based Sriya Innovations and California based Global Trust Bank.

Dr. Ajit Nazre of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) investment specialties are enterprise software and services, new materials and greentech. Dr. Nazre also leads KPCB’s India investment initiative. He presently sits on the board of 7 companies and is a board observer at 6 additional companies. Dr. Nazre has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering Poona (COEP), India. He holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech, a PhD in Biomechanics from the Technical University of Hanover, Germany and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Dr. Bill Joy, former Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, has more than 40 patents issued or in progress. At Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, he helps entrepreneurs advance the Internet, develop wireless innovations, and find new ways of using large scale computing to solve the most difficult problems. He also looks to help entrepreneurs who have discoveries and inventions that can solve energy and resource problems, and helps them apply 21st century advances in physics, chemistry and the natural sciences to help create abundance.

Dr. Joy has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Engineering, honoris causa, from the University of Michigan. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a trustee of the Aspen Institute.

Dr. S. V. Babu, is a Distinguished University Professor and the Director of the Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP) at Clarkson University. Dr. Babu’s current research interests include Chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) of Cu, barrier and low-k films and SiO2 and other dielectric films for shallow-trench isolation, all for microelectronic device fabrication, as well as thin film processing for photovoltaic applications. Dr. Babu earned his doctoral degree in Physics from SUNY at Stony Brook and completed graduate study in Chemical Engineering at John Hopkins University. He earned bachelor and master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from Andhra University and Indian Institute of Technology both in India, respectively. He is a co-inventor of 25 patents and published over 200 papers. He also advised/co-advised 31 PhD and 35 MS students, so far. He has organized the annual International Lake Placid CMP conference for the last fourteen years as well as the annual CAMP conferences, was a keynote speaker at many national and international conferences and received several national and international awards.

Dr. Chris Cox is professor and associate head of civil and environment engineering at University Tennessee-Knoxville (UT-K). Prior to joining the staff at UT-K, he worked as a process engineer for Smith & Loveless, Inc., a manufacturer of wastewater pumping and treatment equipment located in Lenexa, KS. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Tennessee. His research interest include: Mathematical Modeling Genetic Networks and Environmental Processes; Bioenergy Production; Treatment Processes for Water and Waste Water Treatment; Fate and Transport of Hazardous Chemicals in the Environment; and Contaminant Adsorption on Aquatic Surfaces. He is a participating researcher in the Bioenergy Science Center at Oak Ridge National Lab.

During his storied career, Dr. Cox has received numerous teaching and research honors and awards; given many presentations; written a plethora of publications [Refereed Publications, Book Chapters, Electronic Publications, Conference Proceedings, and Technical Reports]. His professional and university activities include but are not limited to being a journal reviewer, proposal reviewer, advisor-committee member to many university/college/departmental initiatives.

Dr. Cox earned his PhD in Environmental Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. He holds a MS in Environmental Engineering and BS (Honors) in Chemical Engineering from University of Missouri-Columbia.

Dr. Narayanan Neithalath is an assistant research professor in environmental and civil engineering at Clarkson University, a nationally ranked research university in Potsdam, New York. His numerous publications and referred conference proceedings focus in the general area of research in the characterization, performance evaluation, and modeling of the behavior of special cement based materials. Dr. Neithalath, a member of the American Concrete Institute and Indian Concrete Institute, earned a doctoral degree from Purdue University. He earned his master’s and bachelor degrees from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and University of Calicut, India, respectively.

Ken Postle, a Global Cement Expert, has over 30 years of experience in the building materials industry. He serves as President of Cement Process Consulting Ltd, London, UK. Ken is adept in feasibility studies, process engineering, writing tender documents & contracts, start-up & commissioning services, due diligence studies, training engineering and operators - all services related to cement plant operations. He has a Bachelor of Science with Honors from The University of Salford, UK.

Dr. Gajanan (G.) M. Sabnis, P.E.; is a retired Howard University Professor in concrete and current President of Sabnis, Inc. located in Sliver Spring MD.  His storied career consists of a combined teaching, industrial and research experience totaling to over four decades. He has over 20 years of rehabilitation experience with various types of concrete structures, technical and professional committees at national level and in construction management, and has played important and active part at national and local level in professional committees of ASCE, ACI, ASEE and PCI. He was elected Honorary Member of ASCE, highest bestowed honor by the society.

At Howard University, he has been successful as a teacher, researcher and a mentor to many of his students and has been respected for his dedication and service. He has carried out research in collaboration with other universities, such as Northwestern and Penn State University in material science in various aspects as related to the basic properties of concrete and transportation structures (recycled construction materials) for eight years. This activity resulted in several students pursuing their Ph.D. work at other universities. Dr. Sabnis was President-elect nominee for the ASCE in 2002 and for Vice-president (Zone I) in 1999.

Dr. Sabnis, a Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the States of California, Maryland, District of Columbia, New Jersey and Virginia, earned a PhD in Structural Engineering from Cornell University. He holds a Master of Technology in Structural Engineering and BS in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology and University of Bombay, respectively. A Certified Laboratory Assessor in the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) he is an Honorary Member, Life Member, Fellow and Member of such organizations as American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society for Engineering Education, American Concrete Institute,  Institution of Engineers (India),  Indian Concrete Institute, to name a few. He has a plethora of publications, honors, and awards to his credit.

Dr. Arvind Varma, Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical Engineering, at the University of Notre Dame, has received numerous awards for his teaching and research focused on chemical and catalytic reaction engineering and advanced materials synthesis and has organized and chaired numerous technical sessions at professional society meetings. He is one of the founding directors of the catalysis and reaction engineering division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering. He received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota, masters from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, and bachelor’s from Panjab University, India. Dr. Varma has published numerous papers in chemical and catalytic reaction engineering and synthesis of advance materials, coauthored two books ("Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering" and "Parametric Sensitivity in Chemical Systems") and coedited two books.

Dr. Harrison Wellford, JD, Harrison Wellford has spent 25 years in the alternative energy and political arenas as a Presidential advisor, policy analyst and advocate, senior executive of clean tech companies, entrepreneur and regulatory and project finance lawyer. During his storied career he has advised Democratic President elects, Presidential nominees and Senate Committees on Presidential transition planning

He served as Chairman of Latham & Watkins energy practice where he helped establish the firm’s Clean Technology Group.

In 1992, Dr. Wellford served as White House transition advisor to President-elect Clinton and served on the Economic Policy Group of the Transition Team with responsibility for planning Congressional budget strategy.

In 2004, he chaired Democratic Presidential nominee John Kerry's pre-election transition taskforce responsible for organizing the transition of the White House Staff and the Executive Office of the President.

In 2008, he advised then Senator Obama on White House organization and strategic planning for the Presidential transition during the pre-election period and served as transition advisor after the election.

He currently serves on the Steering Committee for the Green Bank Coalition which helped develop legislation now pending in the Congress to create a government sponsored bank to promote long term investment in clean energy.

Political Experience At the White House from 1977 to 1981, Dr. Wellford was Executive Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President, the top managerial policy job in the Executive Branch. He was in charge of management, reorganization and regulatory policy reform for OMB. He served for four years as Executive Director of the President's Reorganization Project which prepared and advocated before Congress executive agency reorganization plans for the Executive Office of the President, the Dept. of Education, the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency (FEMA), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and international trade agencies among others.

During 1976-77, he was head of the Government Reform Task Force for President-elect Carter's Transition Team and prepared the White House staff organization plan for the new President.

During 1980-1981, he served as Presidential Transition Director for Executive Departments and Agencies during the Carter-Reagan transition. In the US Senate between 1972-76, Mr. Wellford served as Chief Legislative Assistant to the late Senator Philip A. Hart, chairman of the Antitrust and Environment Subcommittees in the Senate. Energy Industry Experience In the 1980's, he was a leading advocate for the creation of the competitive power industry and was a founder of the largest trade association for the independent power companies, the National Independent Energy Producers. He served as outside counsel, strategic advisor and investor in two of the leading independent cogeneration power companies created during that time, Intercontinental Energy Corporation and Sithe Energies.

From 1998 to 2000, Dr. Wellford was Vice Chairman of Sithe Energies, Inc., one of the world's largest merchant power generation companies. Since 2000, in addition to ongoing work in mergers and acquisitions and energy project finance, Mr. Wellford has assisted a number of renewable energy, energy efficiency, resource recovery and environmental technology companies with private equity financing, project financing, and mergers and acquisitions.

Dr. Wellford, who has written two books and published numerous articles in Harpers, Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Monthly, the Outlook Section of the Washington Post and other national and professional publications, holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law School. He was a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University and Valedictorian of his graduating class at Davidson College.

He is Treasurer and a founding board member of the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies, a nonprofit that has raised over $35 million to commission leading contemporary artists to produce paintings and sculpture to enhance the cultural ambience of American embassies throughout the world. He has also served as a Trustee of Davidson College. Dr. Wellford has also served on the boards of public companies including Vivendi North America, Sithe Energies, WorldWater and Solar Technologies, KGen Power and the General Nutrition Corporation.

Dr. Srinivas Kilambi, Founder, President and Chairman, a PhD, CFA, has over 6 years of CXO experience in bio-refineries for Fortune 100 companies. Dr. Kilambi is a chemical engineer, serial entrepreneur and former CEO at $85 Billion India-based conglomerate Reliance Industries and CTO at $80 Billion Tata group. In addition to his industry management and technology accomplishments, he has delivered over 15 presentations in conferences and exhibitions spanning 7 countries; holds over 5 Indian process patents and 6 International and US patents, and has over 5 publications in leading journals.

He holds a PhD in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from University of Tennessee. In achieving his C.F.A/MBA from Institute of Chartered Financial Analyst, India, Dr. Kilambi was ranked 2nd in a field of over 5,000 candidates. He also has a MS in Chemical-Environmental Engineering from John Hopkins & Clarkson Universities with a BS in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras India.

Dr. Kilambi took the work that he did during his PhD and created a company that was later sold to Commodore and went to an IPO with him as the CTO.

Kamal Gunsagar, MSEE., is Co-Founder and CSO at Sriya Green Materials.  Mr Gunsagar is a business-savvy entrepreneur with over 40 years of work experience.  He has worked as a senior executive or on the Board of multinationals and several startups including Empowertel Networks, Alliance Semiconductor, Vitelic, and Lara Networks, which he founded and served as CEO until the company was sold to Cypress Semiconductor in 2001.  With much of his career focused on international operations, Mr. Gunsagar has developed a plethora of global industry and government contacts.  He is adept at mentoring, raising capital, developing products, and creating and managing viable businesses, and over the past decade has centered most of his attention on solar and bio-fuel technologies.

Mr. Gunsagar has patented several inventions and has presented papers at several international conferences while also being published in leading journals. He has completed all PhD course work in Electrical Engineering at Ohio State University. He holds an MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, respectively.

Presently, besides Sriya Green Materials, Mr. Gunsagar serves also on the Boards of Georgia based Sriya Innovations and California based Global Trust Bank.

Krishnan V Iyer, MSChE is a Director in the CEO’s Office of Sriya Green Materials Inc. and SGM Lead. His responsibilities include:

1. Building a lab scale system to make continuous Green Building Material.
2. Scale up the system to a pilot scale.
3. Optimize conditions to make Green Building Material at lowest energies and residence times.
4. Keep track of all other projects and be a part of the ‘think tank’ for all projects in Sriya.
5. Update Dr. Kilambi on all projects in Sriya.

He is adept at innovative problem solving, design of experiments and analysis of data and optimization. Prior to joining Sriya, Krishnan was a teaching assistant at Syracuse University focusing on Process Engineering. He also worked as an intern for $85 Billion India-based conglomerate Reliance Industries. His research areas include: Bio-diesel fuel manufacture from soybean oil and applying sequential linear programming to the estimation of parameters in DAE models.

Krishnan holds Masters and Bachelor degrees in Chemical Engineering from Syracuse University and Mumbai University, India, respectively.

Tim Brown, MBA, joined Sriya in 2009 is Director of Business Development. In this role, Tim is responsible for developing the Company’s long term strategy, business development partnerships and supply chain system as the Company moves towards commercializing its technology.

Prior to Sriya, Tim worked with senior executives at medium to large companies on a variety of domestic and international projects at Bain & Co. as a member of their Atlanta and Stockholm offices. Tim’s focus was on new business and product development, supply chain solutions and helping leading private equity firms evaluate potential targets.

Tim has also previously worked for Ernst & Young in their Boston office and was a gold medal winner for the bi-annual CPA exam in Massachusetts.

Tim received an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School and a Bachelor of Science, Management, from Boston College (Summa Cum Laude).

Steve Zijun, MSChE, joined Sriya in 2008 and serves as the Director of Engineering and Product Development. In this role he provides leadership and direction to assigned teams and teammates to identify and install best practices and process engineering support. He is adept at oversight and provides coaching to teams to ensure a variety of analytics are synthesized into effective and successful implementation strategies to meet key business objectives.

Prior to joining Sriya, Steve worked for a petrochemical company (SINOPEC) in China for 10 years as a professional chemical process engineer and plant manager. During this period he acquired practical experience on plant start-up, process optimization, scaling-up and project management.

Steve whose research study is in the areas of supercritical CO2 technique and polymer processing holds a Master of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He also has a Bachelor Degree from the Dilian University of Technology in China.

Ramesh Chembeti, MSChE, is Associate Director of Research and Development responsible for conducting batch and continuous experiments to verify and validate various hypotheses put forth by the team. This requires:

• Performing literature surveys and studies related to the Green building materials.
• Finding the process parameters by doing experiments.
• Fuel Optimizing experiments.
• Monitoring Analysis lab.

Prior to Sriya, Mr. Chembeti worked as a Programming Analyst at First Object Inc, Dallas; Graduate Research Assistant at Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO; and a Production Engineer, Kesoram Cements, India

He has written a thesis on “Nanoconfined nano particle solutions” with two publications to be submitted to Journal of Chemical Physics.

Mr. Chembeti holds Masters and Bachelor degrees in Chemical Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), India, respectively.