The Enventix Mission
To accelerate the transition to renewable energy regenerative agriculture circular economies
By converting waste into valuable products that replace fossil fuels help farmers adapt to climate change sequester carbon
The climate crisis brings opportunity to invest in systems that generate healthy air, soil, and habitats as well as safe jobs. Enventix’s advanced conversion of lignocellulosic waste into renewable fuel and organic products for agriculture answers this need.
Our Team
Enventix boasts an exceptional team of visionary founders and seasoned engineers with experience across the spectrum of advanced thermochemical technologies, chemical process engineering design, commercial plant development, entrepreneurial business, and marketing.
Our team’s experience as entrepreneurs and engineers sets us apart. We have comprehensive expertise in technology development, plant development and operations, and solving engineering issues at their fundamental levels. We are driven by deep commitments to sustainability and innovation.
Management Team
Monem Alyaser
Founder & CEO
Dr. Monem Alyaser, Founder and CEO, is the driving force behind Enventix’s strategic vision and operational excellence. Monem has been at the forefront of developing cutting-edge technologies for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass waste into valuable products. His extensive hands-on engineering expertise encompasses fundamental research in pyrolysis, gasification, thermochemical process systems and equipment design, and thermal management systems.
As founder of two thermal engineering firms, Monem has a notable track record in the development of thermal management solutions in tech and climate tech, including for tech giants Tesla, Apple, HP, Dell, Google, Cisco, and Nvidia as well as for pulp & paper, cement and lime kilns, and copper reactors. Dr. Alyaser is a pioneer in applying Computational Fluid Dynamics to design and optimize thermochemical processes, enhancing energy utilization efficiency, reducing GHG emissions, and improving product quality.
Before founding Enventix, Monem served as the VP of Business Development & Applications Engineering at Asetek, where his entrepreneurial expertise helped guide the company from startup to IPO.
Monem holds a Ph.D. in Metals & Materials Engineering from the University of British Columbia and studied executive management at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
Amy R. Butte
VP of Marketing & Public Policy
Amy Butte has a career in delivering solutions for sustainability. Her experience includes product development, marketing and sales, commodity pricing and structuring, and project development. At Constellation Energy, she launched successful renewable energy, onsite solar, and load management products representing hundreds of megawatts of power. As a consultant, she has worked with Pacific Gas and Electric, EPRI, PARC, Viridity Energy, EnerVault, the City of Santa Monica, and other clean tech startups and nonprofit organizations. Amy performs regulatory analysis and has worked as an advocate for equitable climate action.
Amy earned an MBA from Wharton and a BA from Stanford.
Ashish Jose M.
Director of Engineering
Ashish conducts research and development for process and products at Enventix. He managed construction and operates Enventix’s pilot plant. Ashish performs techno-economic analysis, life cycle, and process analysis. He utilizes 3-D CAD modeling and First-Order Modeling.
Ashish’s engineering experience includes mechanical design, heat and mass transfer, reacting flow, and thermochemical reactor design. As the primary developer and operator of our pilot plant, he has expertse in vendor management and experimental design.
Ashish holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University in Karnataka, India.
Advisory Board
Reyad Fezzani
Reyad Fezzani is Chairman and CEO of Regenerate Power, a US company he co-founded as a developer, owner and operator of utility-scale renewable energy projects. He is also Chairman & Managing Partner of Energy Finance Company LLC, a US company specializing in providing finance for distributed generation energy projects, and an owner and operator of generation assets. Previously at BP plc, he worked in Asia, Europe, North Africa, and the US as Chief Executive of BP Solar, and Chairman of Tata-BP Solar, and prior to that led BP’s renewable business, Global Wind and Solar. The business operated solar manufacturing plants in the US, Spain, India, China, and Australia, and developed, constructed and operated solar and wind farms in the US, Europe, India and China with over 3,000 employees. He was CEO of BP’s global chemicals business with annual sales of US $10 billion and over 6,000 people operating in Asia, with manufacturing sites in China, Taiwan, Korea, Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as the Americas, and Europe.
Raymond Elliot Levitt
Dr. Levitt served five years on the faculty of MIT’s Civil Engineering Department. Ray moved to Stanford University in 1980 where he held the Kumagai Professorship of Engineering in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and served as Chair of Stanford’s Faculty Senate from 2012-13. Ray founded and directed Stanford’s Global Projects Center, where he launched a new initiative to explore and create disruptive business opportunities in big data in emerging Digital Cities. From 2008-2014, he served as a Commissioner of California’s Public Infrastructure Advisory Commission to channel private investment through partnerships. Ray is President of the Farmers Investment Club, an angel investment group of Stanford affiliates. Ray co-founded and served as a Director of Rackwise, Inc. before its IPO and co-founded and served as Chairman of Design Power, Inc., acquired by Bentley Systems. He founded and launched Vité Corporation and served as its initial CEO and Chairman before its acquisition by ePM. Ray was elected a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2008 and was inducted into the National Academy of Construction in 2013.
Foster Agblevor
Dr. Foster Agblevor is a Professor of Biological Engineering at Utah State University and Director of its USTAR Bioenergy Center. His research involves the thermochemical and biochemical conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals. He has several patents and invention disclosures on biomass conversion fuels and chemicals. He works on the fractional catalytic pyrolysis of biomass to produce biochar, chemicals, and biogasoline. He is lead on a National Science Foundation project for agricultural residues conversion into high value chemicals and on collaborative research with the US Department of Energy on in situ catalytic pyrolysis and upgrading of biofuels on biomass/coal gasification research. Prior to joining USU, Dr. Agblevor was a Senior Chemical Engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and was a Fulbright Scholar.