Stockholm Exergi: Building Confidence in First-of-a-Kind Carbon Removal

Jackie is a chartered chemical engineer with over a decade of experience in major capital projects globally, spanning diverse technologies.

Before joining Relae, Jackie developed a strong foundation in upstream oil and gas, working across the full project lifecycle from concept development to commissioning and start-up. She built subject matter expertise in GHG emissions forecasting and decarbonization pathways, developing tools and methodologies and conducting decarbonization studies for global assets. Her experience expanded to a global portfolio of clean hydrogen, CCS and biofuels projects, giving her a deep understanding of the key enablers and challenges in unlocking opportunities.

At Relae, Jackie leads independent project reviews across CCS, natural gas with CCS, direct air capture, BECCS, low-carbon ammonia, geothermal, waste to energy and thermal energy storage, supporting investment decisions, offtake decisions and project assurance. She integrates extensive major projects expertise to evaluate delivery risk, seeking pragmatic solutions for industrial and broader power system decarbonization. This gives clients a clear view of when and how they can expect to receive their offtake and, more importantly, where that risk can be reduced.

Matt evaluates engineered carbon management projects from early screening through diligence and construction readiness, and sometimes operations. The projects vary widely in size, from first-of-a-kind facilities removing a few thousand tonnes to offtakes in the hundreds of thousands, including one of the largest permanent carbon removal agreements signed to date. He assesses whether the process design is sound, whether the cost and performance assumptions hold up, and whether the team can get the plant running on time.

He works across direct air capture, point source capture, and the power and cooling demands of data centers and AI infrastructure, where growth in computing is running into carbon limits. He has also worked on the engineering side of this, doing mechanical design and computational fluid dynamics modeling for a data center engineering firm.

Before joining Carbon Direct, Matt spent over a decade delivering capital projects in chemicals manufacturing and defense contracting. He managed more than $200 million of work, from plant maintenance jobs under $500,000 to greenfield builds of $60 million to over $100 million. When design decisions turned into construction problems and cost overruns, he was the engineer others called in to fix them. His engineering and business background lets him speak to what a technology can physically do as well as what it will cost to build and operate at scale. Clients get a clear read on where a project's real risks sit and what it would take to retire them.

Rohan Raman is a chemical engineer by training who brings a background in process engineering and industrial project execution to the evaluation of carbon management solutions. Before joining Relae, Rohan spent several years in the oil and gas industry in process engineering, project engineering, and business planning roles supporting refining, chemicals, and low-carbon technology initiatives. Additionally, he supported deployment of various large scale capital projects, helping develop project design specifications and start-up procedures.

At Relae, Rohan applies his engineering and project delivery background to help clients evaluate carbon removal and reduction projects for procurement. He conducts technical assessments of hybrid carbon management projects to help clients understand project quality, technical risk, and delivery likelihood. Rohan also supports project assurance work, partnering with project developers to identify and address technical and operational risks that could affect a project's ability to be built successfully and deliver on its carbon claims.

A.J. Simon is a mechanical engineer and energy systems expert, whose passion for efficiency and insatiable curiosity has led to a 25+ year career spanning industry, academia and the US Department of Energy.

Prior to joining Relae, he managed the Energy Group at Lawrence Livermore National Lab where he led assessments of technologies as diverse as nuclear energy, carbon capture and removal, the energy-water nexus, hydrogen fuel, building energy efficiency, and soldier-portable power.

From 2003 to 2008, he helped to manage a large portfolio of university-led clean energy research at Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project. From 2001 to 2003, he developed combustion and emissions control technologies for General Electric's diesel and gas turbine product lines.