Our People

Meet the team.

Combining deep expertise in materials science, chemistry, engineering, and commercialization to build the future of renewable materials.

Neda Keshavarzi

CEO & Board Member

PhD Materials Chemistry, Stockholm University. Researcher background in cellulose nanofibrils; postdoc at the Max Planck Institute of Interfaces. Expert in nanocellulose composites.

Armando Córdova

Co Founder & Chairman

PhD KTH. Professor of Organic Chemistry, Mid Sweden University. 20+ years in green chemistry. Co founder of OrganoClick (Nasdaq OMX) and Organofuel. 10+ years board experience.

Samson Afewerki

Co Founder & Board Member

PhD Organic Chemistry. MSc Chemical Engineering, Uppsala. Postdoc at Harvard Medical School & MIT. Co founder of VERI Nano (US biotechnology) and Organofuel.

Carl Berggren

Business Development Manager

M.Sc. Business Administration, Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law. Experienced in B2B sales and investor relations across multiple sustainable projects.

Anders Niclazon

Board Member

Serial entrepreneur with 38+ years in sales, marketing and digitization across industry, retail, entertainment and software.

Scientific & Advisory Board

Backed by decades of green chemistry research.

XyloTech's science is grounded in world class institutions and a leadership team with a track record of building deep tech companies from the lab to public markets. Our advisors span materials chemistry, scalable manufacturing, and industrial commercialization.