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Camarillo, CA-based Cool Planet has Appointed Jan Thijssen as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Cool Planet is a technology company that is developing sustainable products to address three of the world’s largest markets: energy, food and water. Currently we are commercializing a technology to create green fuels and biochar in a way that can change the world for good. Our green fuels are chemically identical to fossil fuels and can be blended into the current fuel supply to reduce greenhouse gases from the air without sacrificing performance or increasing prices at the pump. Our biochar products sequester carbon and deliver transformative benefits to industries as diverse as agriculture, chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Our technology allows us to build smaller, significantly less expensive facilities closer to biomass feedstock, so we can expand rapidly, achieve lower scale-up risk and continuously innovate and improve with each distributed facility. Our strategic investors include BP, Google Ventures, Energy Technology Ventures (GE, ConocoPhillips, NRG Energy), and the Constellation division of Exelon.
About the Person
Jan Thijssen has served as Chief Technology Officer since January 2014. For over 20 years, Dr. Thijssen has worked with global industry leaders TIAX and Arthur D. Little as well as governments to develop and execute technology strategies that position them optimally in the rapidly emerging fields of alternative fuels and chemicals production as well as advanced power generation technologies and energy storage. Dr. Thijssen has assessed and carried out due diligence evaluations of numerous bio-technologies, energy technologies, and electrochemical technologies. Dr. Thijssen is a Senior Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Dr. Thijssen holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from MIT, and a mechanical engineering degree from Technische Hogeschool Delft (Delft University of Technology). Consultant for global power and energy Over 100 technologies reviewed, expert in modular design applications TIAX, Arthur D. Little, RWE MS, MechE, Univ. of Delft PhD, ChemE, MIT
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