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Andrew Gollach

Partner @ HAX/SOSV | Deep Tech Venture Capital

New York City Metropolitan Area

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Venture Capital
Financial Modeling
Market Research
Strategy
Chemical Engineering
Process Engineering
P&ID
Engineering
Start-ups
Six Sigma
Petroleum
Process Safety
R&D
Petrochemicals
Commissioning
Troubleshooting
Biotechnology
Sustainability
Oil & Gas
Finance

Education

Work Experience

2021

  • Partner

    2024

  • Principal

    2022 - 2024

  • Associate

    2022 - 2022

    - On the investment team at HAX, SOSV's Engineering focused Deep Tech vertical. I manage our deal flow pipeline and due diligence process - I work with our portfolio companies on go-to-market, fundraising, financing and general strategy

  • Fellow

    2021 - 2022

  • Intern

    2020 - 2022

    Due Diligence: Lead volunteer team of MBA, Masters and PhD students in conducting business due diligence for Seed to Series A stage investments.

2021 - 2021

  • Summer Scholar - Technology-to-Market

    2021 - 2021

    Conduct market research and TEA/DCF modeling for breakthrough technologies in the maritime sector. Helped develop a business strategy for new technologies in the maritime logistics space centered around the use of green shipping corridors.

  • Technical Service Manager

    2019 - 2020

    Developed technical sales proposals in support of account sales lead for catalyst sales in the distillate fuels space

2015 - 2019

  • Sr Global Services Engineer/Process Engineer

    2018 - 2019

    LanzaTech is a leader in the circular economy with its waste to fuels/chemicals technology. To date, LanzaTech has raised over $350 million in VC funding. I served as the Chief Technical Advisor on LanzaTech's first commercial-scale plant located in Hebei, China. I was responsible for leading a team of international engineers in the checkout, commissioning, and plant startup activities. The facility is the first commercial deployment of LanzaTech's award-winning gas fermentation technology. LanzaTech has raised over $150 million dollars since the facility came online.

  • Global Operations Engineer

    2015 - 2018

2011 - 2015

  • Field Advisor I/II

    2013 - 2015

    UOP LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc, a Fortune 100 company. UOP has over 100 years of experience as a leading process licensor, equipment, and catalyst & adsorbent supplier in the refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries. As a Field Advisor in UOP's Field Operating Services (FOS) group, I travel to customer sites to provide a wide variety of services. FOS Technical Advisors assist our customers in new unit start-up, checkout, catalyst/adsorbent reloads, revamp, data collection, and other services. I have extensive training and experience across a wide range of UOP technologies. As a Chief Technical Advisor I travel to customer sites across the globe where I serve as the on-site contact for our customer and a liaison for UOP. I am responsible for leading a small group (1-4) of multinational and multicultural engineers in providing support and service to our customers. Hydroprocessing Project Experience: Checkout, loading, and commissioning on UOP Unionfining and Unicracking Process Units. Experience in Distillate Hydrotreating and 2 Stage Hydrocracking Locations: - Abu Dhabi, UAE (Technical Advisor/Chief Technical Advisor) - Cartagena, Colombia (Chief Technical Advisor) Aromatics Project Experience (Benzene & Xylene Production): Checkout, loading, and commissioning on a variety of UOP Aromatics technologies. Experienced in Extractive Distillation (Sulfolane), Liquid-Liquid Extraction (Sulfolane), Tatoray, Isomar, Parex and general fractionation. Locations: - Fujian Province, China (Assistant Advisor) - Yanbu, Saudi Arabia (Technical Advisor) - Singapore, Singapore (Chief Technical Advisor) - Incheon, South Korea (Chief Technical Advisor) - Mangalore, India (Chief Technical Advisor)

  • Development Engineer

    2011 - 2013

    Development Engineer - Hydroprocessing R&D - Worked on complex research projects with limited oversight - Proactively anticipate and prevent problems - Helped team deliver on-time results that contributed to a significant sale to a key customer