VerdeNero was founded to fill and bridge a gap
between conventional engineering and consulting firms. Most business consulting
firm focus on business development, strategy and economics but are often
detached from the techncal realities of the development. Many engineering firms
provide design and engineering services or an analysis of the technical
feasibility of any given technology solution, but do not provide an assessment
of the economic and regulatory constraints of the business that deployes it. We
help our customers understanding where todays technology is limited by the
economics of the present and unveiling the path to develop the capability to
harness the opportunities of the future.
![]() Luca Zullo
holds a Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Padua, Italy and a
Ph.D. also in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology
and Medicine in London, United Kingdom. He started his career at Shell Research
in The Netherlands where he was involved with design and automation of novel
petrochemical and oil refining processes. He joined Cray Research in
Minneapolis, Minnesota to lead the effort to apply high performance computing
applications to the petrochemical and oil refining industry. During that time
and after Cray's aquisition by Silicon Graphics, he led a project aiming to integrate large scale
process simulation with 3D visualization to provide a fully dynamic and
immersive simulation environment for training, design and process improvement.
This project, “The Virtual Plant” was a finalist for the
Smithsonian-Computerworld award for innovation in Computing. After joining
Cargill, he focused on biofuels and bio-energy in plant operations with an
emphasis on “waste” to energy and second generation biofuels. During that time
he also led the technical effort of a group that developed domestically and
internationally methane capture projects in agricultural operations to harvest
renewable energy and carbon credits under the Clean Development Mechanism of the
Kyoto Protocol. Luca is a co-founder of BioCee,
Inc. a firm devoted to commercialize a novel bio-coating
technology developed at the University of Minnesota. He’s an
appointed member to the Minnesota’s Governor Pawlenty Clean Energy Technology
Collaborative, and sits on the technical advisory board of several
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