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Plastic Peril

Disposable plastics are suffocating our planet. Despite their life-saving contributions in medicine and space, single-use plastics are now a major threat. Items like plastic bags and food wrappers, used for moments, linger for centuries. 

It’s heartbreaking to see our throw-away culture harming the environment. The slow decomposition of plastics leads to the entanglement of animals, ingestion by marine life, and the release of toxic chemicals, causing long-lasting damage to our ecosystems.

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Aggiepol™: A Sustainable Solution

Teysha Technologies, with our world-leading research scientists and the UK’s foremost process scientists, including Prof. Karen Wooley of Texas A&M, developed Aggiepol™ to replace these harmful plastics. For over a decade, we’ve worked to unlock Aggiepol’s™ potential, our goal is to utilise its diverse characteristics to help major brands swap out polluting plastics across a range of industries.

United for a Greener Future

Armed with our dedicated team of Individuals passionate about making a positive difference, our collective vision is to pave the way for a greener and more sustainable future, demonstrating that when like-minded individuals unite for a common cause, remarkable possibilities can be achieved.

Who We Are

Dr. Clive Rankin

CHAIRMAN

Karen L. Wooley

INVENTOR & CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Matthew Stone

CEO

Ashlee A. Jahnke

DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Dr. Steve Taylor

Director of Commercial Development

Lane Allan

Head of Marketing &
Customer Relations

Plastic Revolutionised, Nature Harmonized
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Dr. Clive Rankin

CHAIRMAN

Clive has broad international experience as a CEO across a variety of industrial sectors and is now a business angel, adviser and non-executive director to small businesses.

His experience encompasses senior roles in the packaging, plastics, engineering and chemical industries. He has been based mainly in the UK, with spells in Singapore and Germany, and with responsibility for businesses based in North America, Europe and Asia. Latterly, he was divisional chairman of Laporte Fine Chemicals until its acquisition by Degussa, when he became vice president of Degussa Fine Chemicals. In October 2008, Clive was appointed the UK’s nominated expert on climate change to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). He is a graduate of St. Andrews University, where he obtained an honours B.Sc. in Chemistry and a PhD for research into polymer behaviour.

Prof. Karen L. Wooley

INVENTOR AND CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Karen L. Wooley is the W. T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry, a University Distinguished Professor and a Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University, where she holds appointments in the departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering. She also serves as director of the Laboratory for Synthetic-Biologic Interactions.

Karen has served on the technical advisory boards and served in consulting capacities for several companies, from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups and law firms. Her expertise crosses the disciplines of synthetic organic and polymer chemistries, with an emphasis on the development of synthetic methodologies, fundamental study of physicochemical and mechanical properties, and investigation of the functional performance of her materials in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, as non-toxic anti-biofouling or anti-icing coatings, as materials for microelectronics device applications, and as environmental remediation systems.

Karen currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society, among many other advisory roles within the broader scientific community.

Matthew Stone

CEO

Matthew is one of the most active investors in the clean technology space and has an established research catchment of over £6bn annually.

Over the years, he has had considerable success in both asset management and corporate finance fields, working across three continents with some of the largest strategic partners on the French, US, Malaysian and Singapore stock exchanges.

His projects encompass several of the world’s foremost research institutions, internationally acclaimed scientists, as well as leading strategic partners in industry. Matthew has direct experience of integrating and commercialising technologies on a global scale, as well as designing and implementing investment strategies of £100m and above. His investor network consists of prominent private investors, family offices, sovereign wealth funds, institutions, and major corporations.

Dr. Ashlee A. Jahnke

DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

After completing her B.Sc. in Chemistry from Texas A&M University in 2007, Ashlee spent time as a research assistant at Lynntech, where she worked on a diverse portfolio of projects with applications ranging from biofuel production to photodynamic therapy agents

After over a year in industry, Ashlee joined the PhD program in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Toronto in 2009, where she was a Colin Hahnemann Bayley Fellow. After receiving her PhD in Polymers and Materials Chemistry in 2014, Ashlee returned to Texas A&M University as a postdoctoral research associate. In 2016, Ashlee served as an entrepreneurial lead in the NSF Innovation Corps programme, and has since transitioned to research in natural-product based degradable polymer systems with a focus on their scale-up and commercialisation.

Dr. Steve Taylor

TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

Steve is a highly experienced practitioner of industrial biocatalysis with a broad knowledge of enzyme and chemical technologies in the pharmaceutical, fine chemical and biofuels sectors.

With 25+ years in these industries, his career has ranged from start-ups to global chemical companies, including proven leadership of a multidisciplinary biocatalysis department. In these roles many enzyme processes have been developed for the production of drug intermediates, involving molecular biology, fermentation science and chemical process development. Steve has a passion for science and innovation and its role in developing new businesses and generating new opportunities by creatively combining different disciplines in new ways. For example, he has developed ultra-green routes to natural ingredients by processes using ultrasonics and enzyme chemistry.

Steve is a biochemistry graduate of Imperial College, London, where he received a 1st class B.Sc. and PhD and was awarded the Governor’s Prize for Biochemistry. Over the years he has published many papers across a range of disciplines, from process chemistry to drug discovery.