Management Team

driving change & making a difference

Chemetry’s Management Team is a collection of executives with experience driving change in technologies, organizations, and businesses. The team is focused on utilizing our unique technologies to invent, develop and implement new process technologies for the Chemical Industry.

Our Leadership Team

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Ryan Gilliam, PhD

Chief Executive Officer

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Bob Snyder

Chief Strategy Officer

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Eddie Garcia

Controller & Vice President Human Resources

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Thomas McWaid, PhD

Vice President Electrochemistry & Principal Engineer

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Kyle Self, PhD

Vice President Process Technologies

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Mike Weiss, PhD

Vice President Process Modeling

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Vandana Bansal, PhD

Vice President Intellectual Property

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Gal Mariansky, PE

Vice President Engineering & Operations

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Tom Albrecht, PhD

Director of Catalysis

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Jason Jimenez

Director Health, Safety & Environment

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J.W. Mattina

Project Manager

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11500 Dolan Road • Moss Landing, CA 95039 • United States
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Dr. Gilliam founded Chemetry, originally as a research division within Calera Corporation, in 2008. Through Chemetry, Dr. Gilliam seeks to redefine how commodity chemicals are made through taking a new look at an old industry. Dr. Gilliam obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in Materials Science and Engineering. On his work in catalysis and electrochemistry, Dr. Gilliam has 10 peer-reviewed publications and has presented his work at multiple international conferences. He is an inventor on 26 U.S. Patents and an additional 60 foreign patents pertaining to Calera’s and Chemetry’s work.

Mr. Snyder is responsible for developing and executing corporate strategy to commercialize Chemetry technologies. He is a global chemicals and plastics industry executive with over 30 years experience capturing operational improvements and building cultural alignment across acquired and geographically diverse businesses. Most recently, Mr. Snyder served as Vice President of Strategy for Axiall Corporation, leading corporate planning, strategy, and M&A activity, implementing the divestiture of underperforming assets. Previously, he served as Vice President, Chlorovinyls and Aromatics. Prior to Axiall, Mr. Snyder led a range of businesses in the U.S. and Europe at Nova Chemicals. Mr. Snyder began his career at Dow Chemical before joining DuPont Dow Elastomers, leading the global business development organization for the joint venture. Mr. Snyder holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia and a Master’s of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Garcia joined the team in 2010 and leads the company’s finance and administration organization. In this position, he is responsible for the overall accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, and human resource functions of the company. He obtained his B.S. from San Jose State University in Business Administration, with a concentration in Accounting. He began his career as an auditor with KPMG LLP and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of California.

Dr. McWaid has thirty years of experience in product design, systems development, and engineering management. He spent four years at the National Institute of Standard and Technology’s Precision Engineering Division, first as an NRC Post-doctoral fellowship recipient, and then as a staff research engineer. Dr. McWaid has developed automated reactors, advanced metrology instruments and analytical systems. He has 11 issued patents related to metrology, and materials development and characterization. Dr. McWaid obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara in Mechanical Engineering.

Dr. Self manages research and development activities focused on catalysis and analytics. In addition to technical support of ongoing scale-up activities, his team leads research aimed at next generation processes such as new molecules and oxychlorination. Dr. Self began his career at Exxon Chemical Company working in both process development (Baton Rouge) and plant operations (Baytown), the latter including a major ethylene plant shutdown and debottlenecking project. He then joined Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation where he designed processes for world scale chemical plants, both retrofit and grassroots, and also assisted with shakedown and plant operations support. He has held numerous positions of increasing responsibility with Symyx Technologies, Fluidigm Corporation, and Accelergy Corporation primarily in the development and scale-up of new processes such as selective oxidation, isomerization and Fischer-Tropsch catalysis. He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Rice University and a PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Dr. Weiss leads engineering and economic modeling activities. Before joining the team, Dr. Weiss was Vice President of Research for Gas Reaction Technologies. At GRT, he led research teams developing bromine-based processes for the conversion of natural gas to liquids, natural gas to olefins, and propylene to propylene oxide. Previously, Dr. Weiss was a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group, working in new product development and post-merger integration. He is an inventor on 19 U.S. Patents. Dr. Weiss earned a B.S.E. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dr. Bansal joined the team in 2010 and heads the Intellectual Property department where she manages all patent and trademark related activities for the company. Dr. Bansal is a seasoned patent practitioner who has over a decade of experience in patent practice in various fields including organic chemistry, clean technology, biotechnology, medical devices, nanotechnology, drug delivery, and electrochemistry. Under her leadership, Chemetry have successfully obtained over 50 patents worldwide and continue to grow the IP portfolio at a rapid pace. Prior to Chemetry, Dr. Bansal was a patent agent at Foley & Lardner in their Life Sciences IP group where she managed the IP portfolio of large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Prior to Foley & Lardner, Dr. Bansal was a patent agent at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati in their Life Sciences IP group. Dr. Bansal holds PhD in Organic Chemistry from Delhi University, India.

Mr. Mariansky joined the team in 2013 and leads all process engineering activities for Chemetry’s pilot and demonstration plants. He works closely with the research and operation teams to select and optimize unit operation designs for successful scale-up from lab to pilot and pilot to demonstration. Before joining the team, he spent seven years leading development and scale-up from bench to demonstration scale of ZeaChem’s proprietary process to recover and convert organic acid salts produced in fermentation to esters and alcohols. Mr. Mariansky is a licensed Professional Engineer by the state of CA and holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley. He is an inventor on 5 patents.

Dr. Albrecht is the lead inventor of Chemetry’s eShuttle® process. Since joining in 2008, his roles have encompassed numerous, diverse areas including patent strategy and development, next-generation research, and data analytics. As Director of Catalysis, most of Dr. Albrecht’s current work is focused on expanding applications of the eShuttle® platform to new molecules and new process technologies. In this work, he conducts early stage laboratory experiments to assess process chemistry feasibility and to elucidate reaction mechanisms. Dr. Albrecht earned a B.S. from UCLA and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, both in chemistry. He is an inventor on 52 issued patents pertaining to Chemetry’s work.

Mr. Jimenez manages a dynamic 24 hour operations team and he is accountable for eShuttle® Pilot Plant safety, quality and production while mitigating plant environmental impacts. Mr. Jimenez works closely with the Engineering and Science teams to discover and implement process improvements and he is dedicated to mechanical maintenance and quality control for plant reliability. Mr. Jimenez studied Aviation Mechanics with experience in the aerospace and defense industries prior to joining team in 2014.

Mr. Mattina manages external engineering, procurement and construction activities to scale-up Chemetry technologies, including the eShuttle® Demonstration Plant project. He joined the team in 2010 and coordinated pilot plant build-outs and demonstration projects to progress Calera’s Beneficial Reuse of CO2 technologies. Mr. Mattina is a Project Management Professional and also completed the Certificate Program in Project Management through UC Berkeley Extension. He earned a BS in Civil Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.