About Us

An engineer by practice, the company's chief executive officer, Aniruddha has been instrumental in building and developing Carbon Clean into a global leader in low-cost carbon dioxide (CO₂) separation technology for industrial and gas treating applications. Currently more than 38 facilities have used Carbon Clean’s proven technology or solvents.

He is responsible for the day-to-day operations and leads the company's product and customer development strategy. While pursuing his Masters Degree in Statistics at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, Aniruddha co-founded Carbon Clean in 2009.

Selected as one of the Top 50 Brightest Young Climate Leaders, he was a part of the youth delegation to COP15 and COP/MOP 5 (Kyoto Protocol) and awarded a ‘Technology Pioneer’ award by the World Economic Forum in 2015.
As of 2020, Aniruddha has secured multiple strategic partnerships with global players to develop and invest in carbon capture projects. He is a member of the Institute of Directors and represents Carbon Clean on industry groups such as the CCSA and the Global CCS Institute.

Fun facts:

• Favourite food: Kheer pua
• Last book read: Zero to One - Peter Thiel
• #1 interest: Badminton

Prateek Bumb is an entrepreneur, engineer and investor and his key focus areas are to reduce global warming through sustainable energy production and provide accessible clean technology for future energy security.

With a Bachelor’s and a Master’s in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, Prateek co-founded Carbon Clean in 2009 and is responsible for the overall technology and operational strategy of the company. Prateek was instrumental in establishing its global R&D ecosystem across the UK, India, USA and Europe on clean technology innovation. He is the principal innovator of a breakthrough technology to capture carbon dioxide from industrial gases. His expertise involves innovation and implementation of CO₂ capture technology from idea to commercial stage. To date, he has multiple international patents for the CO₂ capture technology and has published papers at several international conferences and in journals on carbon capture and storage technology.

Selected for the Young Alumni Achiever Award (YAAA) in 2019, IIT Kharagpur and National Mission Innovation Champion by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India. He also featured in Indian Innovators: 20 Brilliant Thinkers Who are Changing India in 2015.

Fun facts:

• Favourite food: Indian
• Last book read: The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
• #1 interest: Traveling and watching Bollywood movies

Iain Tobin is Chief Corporate Officer at Carbon Clean. He joined the company in 2020. Iain’s role, which incorporates the role of Chief Financial Officer, is responsible for the financial affairs of the business, goalkeeping our strategy and performance, risk management, investor liaison and fundraising, as well as the delivery of business services including human resources, IT and legal affairs.

Iain has over 20 years’ experience in senior leadership roles in fast growing technology businesses as CFO and COO. He has more recently maintained a focus on clean/sustainable technology businesses in energy, water, and now carbon reduction. Iain has grown and operated organisations stretching across the world.

Iain is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, having trained and qualified with KPMG, and is a recognised Business Finance Professional. He studied at Oxford Brookes University.

Fun facts:

• Favourite food: Tapas
• Last book read: The Siege of Troy Retold by Stephen Fry
• #1 interest: Adventures with my family

Asam Rafi is the Vice President of Sales at Carbon Clean and joined the company in 2020. As a member of the leadership team, he is responsible for the company’s global direct and indirect sales efforts, strategic partnerships, and business development initiatives.

With over 20 years of successful experience in capital equipment solution sales, he started his career at Dresser-Rand Company. And held various positions of increasing responsibility in Sales Applications Engineering, Sales and Business Development Management and Sales Organisation Leadership. Following the acquisition of Dresser-Rand by Siemens AG in 2015, Asam continued to lead the sales effort on strategic projects, with a high focus on improving client energy sustainability. During his career, Asam has undertaken long term deployments in Scandinavia and the Middle East.

Asam has an MBA from the University of Bath School of Management, an MSc in Petroleum Science from Imperial College, London, and a degree in Civil Engineering from Loughborough University.

Fun facts:

• Favourite food: Sushi
• Last book read: The art of changing your mind
• #1 interest: Playing sports with my children

A chartered chemical engineer with a multi-sector background in engineering project management, Richard’s role is to lead Carbon Clean’s capacity to deliver our growing pipeline of contracts and partnerships.

Working closely with our sales and technical teams, he is responsible for maintaining quality and on time Carbon Capture installations to match customer demand.

Before joining Carbon Clean, Richard worked in a consulting practice, assisting investment, service and operating companies improve their project risk resilience.

Richard’s experience also includes working for operating companies, including industrial gases and renewable technologies, leading high value, high complexity projects in partnership with major engineering and construction contractors. He has lived and worked in Asia, Europe and the United States.

Fun facts:

• Favourite food: I like lots of different world foods; if it has chillies I am even more keen. If forced to pick one favourite, it would be Christmas dinner - without chillies
• Last book read: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
• #1 interest: I think the countryside. I grew up in a village - my childhood bedroom window view was over fields and being back in that environment recharges me.