ABOUT US

Vijay Manthripragada

Board member

President and Chief Executive Officer

Montrose Environmental Group

He brings significant leadership and management experience to Montrose. Previously, he was the Chief Executive Officer of PetCareRx, Inc., a high-growth e-commerce company in the pet health industry. Prior to that, he was a Senior Vice President in the Investment Banking division of Goldman Sachs. Before joining Goldman Sachs, he was a Director at the Advisory Board Company and a Johnson & Johnson’s Management Development program member. He received his MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and his BS from Duke University (US) and Oxford University (UK). He also co-founded the White Buffalo Tiospaye, a youth shelter for Native American children in South Dakota, and helped establish the Children’s Medical Foundation in Central and Eastern Europe. He is currently a member of the Board of The Brooklyn Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY.

Vincent Pichon

Board member

Investment director

Engie New Ventures

Vincent brings 15 years of experience in investment, primarily in the cleantech industry. Vincent has always been passionate about the challenges of the energy transition. He joined the ENGIE Group back in 2020 where he serves as Investment director at Engie New Ventures (ENGIE’s Research & Innovation investment fund dedicated to innovative start-ups in the field of climate technology). Vincent is now a board member in 7 companies (hardware and software) based in Europe and the United States.

Frédéric Juillard

President of the board of directors

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Frederic is a Swiss-French engineer and entrepreneur. He completed his Master’s degree at the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL) and UC Berkeley.

He was the co-founder of Naphtis, a project dealing with biofuel production from biomass waste, where he acquired experience in feasibility demonstration and prototyping, as well as the skills required to move from an academic project to a business-oriented organization.

Frederic worked for two years as a scientific collaborator at IPESE group at the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL) before he incorporated TreaTech in October 2015.

Dr. Gaël Peng

Board member

Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer

Gaël is a Swiss-French chemical engineer. He completed his PhD in Energy Research, with specialization in bioenergy and heterogeneous catalysis, at the Paul Scherrer Institute and Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL).
He acquired experience in the development of high-pressure processes and in biomass conversion technologies. In May 2016, he joined TreaTech as CTO to lead the technology validation phase.

Raquel Zambrano

Board member

Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer

Raquel is a chemical engineer from Spain. She obtained a Master in Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology at EPFL after she graduated from the Universidad de Sevilla and Aalto University in Helsinki.

She previously worked at Holdigaz Services and INERCO where she acquired numerous skills regarding process engineering and project management. She joined TreaTech in late 2017 focusing on the valorization of extracted mineral salts into valuable Phosphorus building blocks. She currently coordinates and oversees the different business development lines of the technology.

Board observer

Head of Innovation and Venture at Sipchem Innovent

Jerome Samson

Board Observer

European Investment Bank

Board observer

Fund for Energies, CMA-CGM

Frédéric Juillard

Founder & CEO

Frederic is a Swiss-French engineer and entrepreneur. He completed his Master’s degree at the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL) and UC Berkeley.

He was the co-founder of Naphtis, a project dealing with biofuel production from biomass waste, where he acquired experience in feasibility demonstration and prototyping, as well as the skills required to move from an academic project to a business-oriented organization.

Frederic worked for two years as a scientific collaborator at IPESE group at the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL) before he incorporated TreaTech in October 2015.

Dr. Gaël Peng

Co-founder & CTO

Gaël is a Swiss-French chemical engineer. He completed his PhD in Energy Research, with specialization in bioenergy and heterogeneous catalysis, at the Paul Scherrer Institute and Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL).
He acquired experience in the development of high-pressure processes and in biomass conversion technologies. In May 2016, he joined TreaTech as CTO to lead the technology validation phase.

Raquel Zambrano Varela

Co-founder & COO

Raquel is a chemical engineer from Spain. She obtained a Master in Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology at EPFL after she graduated from the Universidad de Sevilla and Aalto University in Helsinki.

She previously worked at Holdigaz Services and INERCO where she acquired numerous skills regarding process engineering and project management. She joined TreaTech in late 2017 focusing on the valorization of extracted mineral salts into valuable Phosphorus building blocks. She currently coordinates and oversees the different business development lines of the technology.

Pierre-Cédric Vigna

CPO

Pierre-Cédric is a French chemical engineer. He travelled the world working for large companies in various fields including Oil & Gas extraction in Latin America and lastly in the monomers production in China as a process and project engineer.

He joined Treatech in April 2021 as CPO to lead the scale up of the hydrothermal gasification technology into an industrial phase.