Al Lang is the Chief Executive Officer of SIO USA and a successful serial entrepreneur in a diverse network of industries. He brings over 50 years of corporate management, operational, manufacturing and business development experience to the team.
Mr. Lang is also the founder of a successful specialty chemical blending and manufacturing company that has been providing sustainable solutions to multi-national corporations in the Automotive, Aerospace and Residential industries for the past 30 plus years
Mark Nagano has more than 35 years of success in the Environmental Science industry, including senior management roles in sales and operations. He is the current CFO at SIO USA and is responsible for providing leadership, management, technology development and strategic planning.
Prior to joining SIO USA, Mr. Nagano spent 25 years as Director of International Business & Technology Development for Tech Corporation, Ltd., a leading Japanese Environmental Science & Technology company. Tech Corporation pioneered the development and commercialization of Electrolyzed Water, Food Waste Bio Digesters and Nanobubble Technology for which it received numerous patents.
Dr. Ovissipour, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology at Texas A&M University. He has a Ph.D. in Bioprocessing and a Ph.D. in Biological Systems Engineering from Washington State University. His program focuses on sustainable food production systems and developing novel technologies to enhance food safety, and food security, while reducing carbon footprint. He is working on Alternative proteins, Cellular agriculture, and Food safety engineering.
Ankit Agarwal is a Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Automotive Engineering at Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CUICAR). He did his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. His research focuses on advancing the machining of newer materials, combining computational tools with human expertise for effective decision-making in manufacturing, and ontologically integrating designing and manufacturing processes. He is currently working on analyzing/monitoring tool wear in the machining of Nickel-based Superalloys (NBSAs) and envisioning a Designing-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs).
