Advisory Board

 Bob is the member of Scientific Advisory Board. He is currently the Professor of Practice in the Earth and Environmental Engineering Department at Columbia University in the City of New York. He was the Research Vice President at BASF (formerly Engelhard), New Jersey, USA and lead research and developmental activities for nearly 37 years. His major responsibilities in industry included development of advanced automobile emission control catalysts and catalysts for the chemical and alternative energy industries. His team developed the first base metal oxide (precious metal free) diesel oxidation catalysts commercialized by Engelhard in 1994 for heavy duty trucks. He has over 120 publication and 60 US patents and is co-author of three textbooks “Catalytic Air Pollution Control: Commercial Technology”, “Fundamentals of Industrial Catalytic Processes” and “Introduction to Catalysis and Industrial Catalytic Processes”. He is the recipient of the Ciapetta Lectureship Award sponsored by the North American Catalysis Society in 2008 and the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Practice Award sponsored by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2005. Bob received PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York and Bachelors in Chemistry, from Manhattan College, New York. 

 Raj Chilumula is a Business Advisory Board member. He is currently the head of business developments at Janney Montgomery Scott who manages technical and business related work in the broad area of wealth, finance and resources management. Raj is a senior leader who constantly drives the concept of value creation through strategic alignment of business and technology. His successful entrepreneurial ventures include information technology, strategic real estate ventures in commercial and retail domains and other business ventures. His strengths also include managing global technology firms with effective partnerships across different platforms. In his role as board member, he advises on business developments, strategic partnerships, marketing, infrastructure, capital structure, and venture financing.  He received his MBA in finance & leadership from Columbia business school, Columbia University and Bachelors in Computer Science from Bangalore University.