Abhijeet Borole

CEO and Co-Founder of Electro-Active Technologies

Abhijeet Borole is a chemical engineer with more than 25 years of experience in technologies for production of biofuels, hydrogen, bioproducts and chemicals. His experience ranges from fossil industry to clean tech and climate tech. He worked with oil giants in his early career and now focused on developing biomass and waste technologies to produce clean fuels and products. He worked as a Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is the largest DOE National Laboratory in the US, for almost 20 years. During the period, he was also an Adjunct/Joint Professor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), where he trained students in the emerging fields of Renewable Energy and BioEnergy. He is currently the CTO and President of Electro-Active Technologies, a startup which was launched with one of his students a few years ago. He still mentors students at UTK as a Research Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

His expertise is in biohydrogen, biofuels, catalysis, scale-up. He has published over 75 peer-reviewed papers, 5 patents and 8 books/chapters. He has received recognition for his work from National Renewable Energy Laboratory, US DOE, Discovery Channel, BioMed Central Publishers, TechConnect and others.

He envisions a circular economy where all materials we need will one day come from biomass, waste and renewable resources. His efforts today are focused on bringing that future closer. He loves to train students, engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs in biology and engineering to solve the toughest problems in the world using tricks he has learned from nature.

In his free time, he engages in reading history and relaxing via meditation, gardening and cycling.