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This list showcases the top Massachusetts based CEO’ operating in the Chemical space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Robb Osinski
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bambu Global
Robb J. Osinski is a Co-Founder of Performance Indicator, LLC and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. During his tenure at First Eastern Bankshares Corporation, Robb Osinski coordinated the acquisition of local downtown Boston thrift and restructured the corporation to not only sustain significant growth but also survive the cyclical downturn that devastated the competition. Robb Osinski earned his A.B degree in Economics, Cum Laude, from Harvard University.
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About Bambu Global, NowAware: Bambu Global focuses on developing and commercializing breakthrough scientific discoveries.

Patrick M. Prevost
President& CEO of Cabot Corporation
Patrick M. Prevost is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Cabot Corp. Prevost joined Cabot in January 2008 as President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining Cabot, since October 2005, Prevost served as President, Performance Chemicals, of BASF AG, an international chemical company. Prior to that, he was responsible for BASF Corporation’s Chemicals and Plastics business in North America. Before joining BASF in 2003, he held senior management positions at BP and Amoco. Prevost is a member of the Board of Directors of General Cable Corporation, copper, aluminum and fiber optic wire and cable products. Prevost is also a member of the Board of Directors of the American Chemistry Council, a trade association representing the business of chemistry at the global, national and state levels. . Patrick earned his MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS degree in Chemistry from the University of Geneva.
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About Cabot Corporation: Cabot is a global performance materials company that delivers a broad range of products and solutions to customers.
Jill Becker
Chief Executive Officer of Kebotix
Dr. Jill S. Becker is the CEO at Kebotix.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Harvard Innovation Labs, Kebotix, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), NextGen Venture Partners: Kebotix is a high-tech materials discovery and production company that reinvent the discovery of new materials using AI.
Daniel Forte
CEO & Founder of Quantum Technology Group
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About Quantum Technology Group: Quantum Technology Group (QTG) manufactures a unique non-toxic ZnSe nanoparticle .

Kevin Knopp
Co-founder & CEO of 908 Devices
Dr. Kevin Knopp is a co-founder & CEO of 908 Devices Inc. An experienced high-tech entrepreneur, Kevin co-founded Ahura Scientific in 2002, and was Senior Vice President overseeing Operations, R&D and Safety and Security Sales through Ahura’s acquisition by Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2010, where he continued as Vice-President and Site Leader of the Portable Optical Analysis division. Kevin served as an independent board member for Crystal IS until its acquisition by Asahi-Kasei. He earned B.S.E.E from Boston University, M.S.E.E, and Ph.D. degrees in Optics from the University of Colorado. Kevin is an inventor on more than 20 US patents, is an author on more than a dozen refereed publications, and his products have received R&D 100, Business Week IDEA, GSN, CPhI Gold, Cygnus, and Frost & Sullivan awards.
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About 908 Devices: 908devices manufactures battery-operated, hand-held chemical detection tools used in mass spectrometry.

Greg Altman
CEO of Evolved By Nature
Greg Altman is the CEO at Evolved By Nature.
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About Evolved By Nature, Silk Therapeutics: Evolved By Nature is a green chemistry company
Daniel Oran
Founder & CEO of Irradiant Technologies
Daniel Oran currently works as the Founder and CEO for Irradiant Technologies Inc.
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About Irradiant Technologies: Irradiant Technologies develops implosion fabrication lithography for chemically amplified high throughput micro-fabrication.

Carlos Ludlow-Palafox
CEO of Enval
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About Enval: Enval, originally formed as a spin-out from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge, is a privately funded