Clean air and energy to future generations – by solving the world’s waste problem

Shirly has 20+ years in CTO and senior positions within environmental, waste, water and wastewater technologies and business.

Prior to joining BOSON, Shirly was Head of Technologies at Veridis Environment. She has also served as CTO of Veolia Environment Israel and DHVMED and worked as a Water and Wastewater Engineer for HGM Consulting Engineers and Planners.

Shirly holds and degree in Environmental Engineering from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and also an MBA from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watts University.

BOSON’s co-founder Prof Wlodzimierz Blasiak is a highly respected expert and researcher within high temperature gasification and combustion. Prior to joining BOSON full time, he was also Professor of Energy & Furnace Technology at the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. His main research subjects have been low-NOx combustion, design of high performance industrial furnaces, oxyfuel combustion and high temperature agent gasification (HTAG).

Prof Blasiak and his research team successfully built and proved the core technology that BOSON developed into the H3TAG biomass gasifier. He was awarded the ASME Westinghouse Gold Medal in 2010 by the industry, for his outstanding contributions in the field of advanced combustion technologies and his work as industrial consultant for advanced furnace design.

He has published more than 150 papers and also works as a reviewer for international journals. His research efforts have always been carried out in close collaboration with recognised partners from the power and steel industry in Europe, US, and Japan.

Marcus is an international CFO and business partner with a proven record of delivering results and driving change in both SMEs and global multi-divisional businesses in telecom, FMCG, logistics, services and manufacturing industry.

Marcus has led finance from strategy and business plan formulation to group consolidation, from accounting, controlling, international taxation, treasury, M&A, to ERP and digitalisation. He has built and led world-class multinational teams and has solid experience in interacting on Board level in privately and listed companies.

Marcus has served as Group CFO and Head of Controlling for companies like Vodafone, Transcom, DHL Express, Kellogg’s and Tetra Pak. He has worked successfully in all significant EMEA, American and Asian locations.

Marcus holds a BSc in Business Administration and Economics with a concentration in Management Control. He has also taken executive courses at London Business School, The Wharton School and Thunderbird School of Global Management. Marcus speaks fluent German, English and Swedish and has knowledge in French and Dutch.

Liran is an operative and manager with long experience in the waste treatment and gasification industries – developing and proving performance of new technology. At Boson he is responsible for all technology and development, and closely involved in commercial activities.

Prior to joining Boson, Liran served as CTO for Environmental Energy Resources (EER) Ltd in Israel. Liran was responsible for the development of the Plasma-Gasification-Melting (PGM) technology. He built and managed the Iblin demonstration plant in Israel as well as plants in Russia. Liran was involved in the business development and presented the PGMTM technology to clients and presented at several international conferences. He was the project manager of the PGM projects in Houston, Texas and in London, England. Liran was responsible for all technical, legal and commercial project aspects.

Liran liaises with several technical institutes globally and has published many papers on the gasification and plasma technology. Liran holds a degree in environmental engineering from the Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.

Linda heads up Boson’s HSE function – a vital part of realising BOSON’s In My Back Yard vision. Linda is a technician by background with 10+ years of experience in process- and project engineering and design in the energy sector; with focus on HSE, HAZOP, and Risk Analysis.

Prior to Boson Energy, Linda has managed numerous projects within process risk analysis, process design, implementation and commissioning of a full-scale tire recycling plant based on a new pyrolysis process. Linda’s customers include Scandinavian Enviro Systems AB, Uddeholm AB, Nynäs AB.

Linda has taught 'Process and Energy' at a Technical School in Gothenburg in cooperation with PRC Engineering AB. Linda holds a degree in process plant design.

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Krzysztof possess strong technical and business qualifications with a track record of more than 20 years of hands-on experience in the area of executive and operational management, business development, launching programs, and the creation and implementation of corporate strategies.

Prior to joining BOSON Krzysztof was Vice-President of the Management Board of the Plock Industrial and Technological Park appointed to represent the interests of PKN ORLEN SA and was responsible for operations and R&D strategy. He was also CEO and Co-founder of the GIFT Cluster of TAURUS FUNDATION in Poznan focused on Virtual Power Plants, Smart Grids and Renewable Energy Sources.

Krzysztof has also worked in financial organizations, including the NATIONAL GUARANTEE GROUP; in World Bank projects hired by SOGREAH SA, AT&T; and with TELIA AB’s investment and technical team in operator NETIA SA.

Krzysztof holds a degree in Post-Graduate Studies in Accounting from Economic University in Cracow, an M.Sc. Transport Control Systems from Wyższa Szkoła Inżynierska in Radom; and has studied Intellectual Property Management at Stanford Center for Professional Development, Stanford University.

Jan has a wide network within and beyond the industrial and cleantech energy sector. During the last 20 years, he has been the driving force behind three companies successfully bringing game-changing technology to market.

Prior to Boson Jan was co-founder and COO of Mobotec Europe AB, a company specialised in air pollution control through advanced primary methods to reduce NOx/SOx and converting fossil power plants to biomass. Mobotec was acquired by Nalco.

Jan was majority owner, and his responsibilities included full responsibility for business model, business plan, budgets, all commercial activities, contracts, client relations, execution level project management of installation partners.

Prior to Mobotec, Jan co-founded and served as VP of Sales and Business Development for Altoptronic AB, a supplier of advanced tuneable diode laser process analysers, which was acquired by Siemens AG and renamed to Siemens Laser
Analytics AB.

In his role as VP of Sales and Business Development, Jan drove key aspects to take Altoptronic from a product/technology idea and specification for measuring interference gas molecules (ammonia, etc.) product/technology idea and specification, to a fully commercial company that was acquired by Siemens. When Jan joined Altoptronic in 1994, there were no installations, no products, no engineering, and no application definition. It took Jan and the management team four years to manage extensive quality problems, manage hardware and software, and commercialize the product.

Jan’s responsibilities at Altoptronic included full responsibility for business plan, application definition, commercial strategy, sales budgets, pricing, marketing, sales, contracts, after sales, exit process and negotiation. After Siemens’ acquisition, Jan continued to grow sales for Siemens Laser Analytics for three years in his role as VP of Sales with global responsibility. Jan then went on to co-found Mobotec Europe AB.

Jan has studies Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology and Psychology at University of Gothenburg.

Heike is an entrepreneur with wide international communicator and analyst experience from trust-based industries such as security, research services, telecom, and trade services. He has worked with strategy and communications assignments in Scandinavia, W/E Europe, Middle East and Central America.

Prior to joining Boson, Heike worked as Benelux COO for India headquartered offshore research and analytics firm Evalueserve. Previous employers also include the AOL Europe, SSE Institute of International Business in Stockholm, the Swedish Trade Council in Russia and Securitas France.

Heike holds an MSc in Business and Economics with specialisation in Marketing and in Accounting and Managerial Finance from the Stockholm School of Economics and the Carlson School of Management in the US.

Aditya has spent 25+ years in international advisory and commercial roles within industry, energy, and commodities.

Aditya is also a member of the National Mission for Clean Ganga Working Group - Water Finance, PPP Framework, Knowledge Hub. He also serves as the co-president of the Indian Business Chamber of Luxembourg.