Richard Belluzzo – Chairman
Belluzzo joined Innogest, one of Agroils backing partner, in 2017 as a full time partner, with a leading operational role in the investment team. Born in San Francisco, Belluzzo has developed his career at the highest level in the field of global technological innovation. He worked for Hewlett-Packard for 23 years, becoming executive vice president of the entire Computer Business, then he served as Chairman and CEO at Silicon Graphics. He then became the head of Microsoft’s consumer business and eventually became President and Chief Operating Officer of the Seattle Group. Before joining the startups’ ecosystem, he served as CEO in several leading hi-tech company, in particular as CEO at Quantum and more recently as CEO and Chairman in Viavi Solution (NASDAQ: VIAV).
Mukul Dixit – CEO
Mukul Dixit, is a Chemical Engineering Honours Graduate from IIT, Roorkee, INDIA. Awarded with the ‘Thomason Memorial Gold Medal’ for Best Engineering Design Project at the Undergraduate level, Mukul possesses over three and a half decades of experience at Leadership & Strategy levels across the Chemical Process & Allied Industry.
His expertise domain covers Refineries & Petrochemicals, Fertiliser, Chemicals & APIs and Textiles. His key strengths have been in areas of Manufacturing, Capital Projects Portfolio Management, Revamping & Debottlenecking Process Technologies, Supply Chain Sourcing & Procurement, Process Investigation and Development and Process Engineering,
Mukul has presented papers in International Conferences, Seminars and Workshops on subjects of Project Management & Governance, Business and Operations Excellence, Process Scale Up, Process Safety, Environment Management and Revamping & Debottlenecking Process Technology.
Giovanni Venturini Del Greco – CTO
Ind. Engineering Univ. of Florence and KTH Univ. in Sweden. Founder Agroils Technologies SpA. Pioneer in Jatropha where he set up SmartOil ltd acquired by Futuris SpA in 2011. Co-Founder of Treedom Srl (Exit in 2012). Chairman of Jatrophabook Onlus NGO. Director & CSO at Herbolea Biotech SpA.
Vasanth Subramanian
CEO of leading plant science and plantation company, JOil Pte Ltd, a joint venture formed by Temasek Life Science, Tata Chemicals, Toyota Tsusho and Wuthelam. Prior joining JOil, Vasanth served as COO of OLAM Commodities Financial Services.
Karishma Sachwani Jagtiani
Head Of Finance at JOil, Chartered Financial Analyst (USA) and Chartered Accountant.
Dr. Roberto Crea (Honorary Chairman)
PhD Chemistry Pavia. First DNA Director at Genentech Inc. inventor of 40 US patents. Serial Entrepreneur: Creative BioMolecules, Bioren (acquired by Pfizer), Neurex (acquired by Elan for $700 M), Protelix, CreAgri.