Dr.Anand Apte, Managing Director to Amol Carbons Pvt Ltd. He holds PhD in Chemical Engineering from Louisiana State University, USA. Dr. Apte possesses over 40 years of experience in teaching, R & D and consulting; with emphasis on new technology, detail process design; pilot plant construction and operation; project management. He has been a consultant to:

Mobil Oil Corporation, Borden Chemicals, U. S. Air Force, National Air & Space Administration (NASA), N.O.A.A., The Library of Congress, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Interior.

Gharda Chemicals Ltd., Pioneer Distilleries Ltd, Savas Engineers Ltd., Thermax Ltd., Western Paques (India) Ltd., Western Bio Systems Ltd., Ganesh Dykem, Sterling Equipments, Projects and Systems Engineers.

Dr. Apte has five gasification related publications including four conferences attending at American Gas Association and Gas Research Institute and three at Deccan Sugar Technologists Association; Three newspaper articles on recent developments in sugar technology; One United States Patent on Efficient Turbo compressor.

Parag is the Founder and Director of Graphinet & Amol Carbons Pvt Ltd, one of the leading Web development and Digital marketing agency. With over 24 years of experience in domestic and international projects for software development, web Development and Digital marketing solutions, he was instrumental in providing digital solutions for United Nations, Xerox Corporation, USDS, USAID, eBay University, Honeywell Automation India Ltd.,Sharp India Ltd, NJS Co. Ltd, Japan, Crompton Consumer Electronics Ltd., Sungard, Capita India Ltd., Cytel Inc., statistics.com

MeraJob etc. he is focussed on optimizing digital campaigns to increase the ROI for improved profitability, lead quality and increase in conversion.

He holds Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from University of Pennsylvania. He has total 10 years of experience with biomass gasification and commercialization of research funded by US government. He also worked as a software engineer for Infosys for 2 years.

He holds PhD in Chemical Engineering from University of Salerno, ITALY. He has 15 years of experience in teaching, process design & development and analytical chemistry; with core interest in process design and development for conversion of waste (agricultural, industrial, forest) via biochemical or thermochemical route. He has developed pilot scale processes for synthesis of bio-surfactants and exopolysaccharides (EPS) from dairy waste, synthesis of bio-plastics (PHB) from distillery waste, ferric and p-coumaric acid from sugarcane bagasse. He has 5 international publications; 4 international conference attending on fermentation, agricultural biotechnology to his credit. He has also filed two patents for synthesis of amino acid as plant growth regulators from human hair waste.

He holds a Bachelor in Engineering from University of Pune. He has 17 years of experience in Process engineering – Development of PFD, P & ID, HAZOP studies, Project Management, Techno commercial Feasibility studies, RFQ preparation & Cost estimation, Site construction support, Business development activities.