Mukund Karanjikar

Mukund Karanjikar, PhD, is the founder and CEO of CleanJoule Inc, a US-Based Fuel Technology Company focused on developing superior performance aerospace fuels, including full performance SAF. He is passionate about innovations that lead to environmental and societal sustainability. He is an inventor on more than 20 US and international patents. Prior to CleanJoule he served as the President of Technology Holding, a company that focuses on early stage technological ventures and worked at Chevron Corporation and Rallis India Ltd. He also served as a visiting fellow in energy innovations ecosystem at Harvard University and as adjunct faculty member at the University of Utah. He has been instrumental in creating spin-off companies based on academic innovations that have raised private capital and secured corporate partnerships. He has co-authored a book titled: Conquering Innovation Fatigue (with Jeff Lindsay and Cheryl Perkins) published by Wiley and Sons, New York. The book was recognized as one of the best reads by Businessweek. He routinely serves on panels at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, US National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy and has been a member of experts group on energy technology at the International Energy Agency. He was invited to serve on the Industry Inspired Basic Research panel by the Industrial Research Institute, an organization that constitutes a number of Fortune 500 corporations as its members and to serve as energy business plan judge at the Gulf Coast Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization, an initiative of former Texas Governor Rick Perry. He also served on the bioenergy panel convened by the Bureau of land Management of the Department of Interior. He was elected as the chair of the Management Division at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, a membership organization with more than 40,000 members globally. He earned a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology (Mumbai) in 1999 and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University in 2005.