Meet the PHAXTEC™ team
Proven track record
The PHAXTEC™ team consists of a mix of young and motivated entrepreneurs and seasoned industry veterans all of whom are committed to delivering on PHAXTEC™’s mission to introducing environmentally safe and natural material solutions.
Anindya Mukherjee
MBA, MS (Poly. Sc.), BS (Chem. E.)
CEO and Founder
- i2i Management Consulting Practice
- Co-founder GO!PHA
- 20 years in Biotech & PHA, 40 years in plastics
- 6 start-ups and 3 M&As (MD, EVP, GM)
Nick Triantafillopoulos
PhD
Paper an Coatings
- R&D Technology Manager
- New applications, markets developer
- Polymer, specialty chemicals and coatings application developer
- 26+ years in paper and packaging
Sean Stettner
PhD
Synthetic Biology
- PHD, 15+ years in molecular microbiology, strain dev. for gas fermentation
Bennoît Degrenne
PhD
Fermentation
- 15+ years in single cell culture optimization and eco-extraction processes
Gabriele Mukherjee
MBA
Marketing and Communication
- 15+ B2B Marketing and communications
- Experience at and with multinationals
- Start-up experience
The PHAXTEC™ advisory board
Experience matters
Robert Kirschbaum
MS
- Former Business Unit Director & VP Open Innovation, DSM
- Led a corporate “incubator”
- 35 years fostering innovation
Marc-Andre Lebel
PE
- Founder and CEO FRX Polymers
- Former Business Group Director, Cabot Corp.
- Former President & CEO, DSM Thermoplastics Elastomers
Charles P. Klass
MBA
- 60+ years in pulp & paper, paper coatings and paper recycling
- Former VP, GM, Dir. of Sales at 4 pulp & paper companies
- Adjunct Professor; Technical, Business & Management Consultant, holds 9 patents
Narayana Murthy
PhD
- 20+ years of expertise in molecular biology, fermentation, strain development, genomics, proteomics, and industrial biotechnology
- Head of Microbiology and Fermentation, CP Kelco, Atlanta Innovation Center
Christopher Wood
PhD
- 30+ years of industrial
experience, specializing in chromatographic, spectroscopic, and thermal techniques for
polymer characterization - Former Principal Chemist, Testing & Analytic Lab Leader, Celanese
Academic Partners
Clemson University
Plastics & Coatings
San Diego State University
PHA Production
We are hiring
PHAXTEC™ is looking for you – microbiologists, molecular biologists, gas-fermentation and bioprocessing experts, polymer chemists and processing specialists, applications-development experts, and business development, sales and marketing professionals.
Whether you are early in your career or bring decades of experience, talk to us about how you can participate. We are building technologies that combine gas fermentation, PHA production, polymer science, and applications development to create a new generation of materials capable of replacing conventional plastics across packaging, coatings, agriculture, and many other markets.
The time has come for a paradigm shift in how we make, use, and think about materials. Join us in changing not just how plastics are made, but what we use instead.