Steven DeCicco
Mr. DeCicco has 30 years experience commercializing technologies, building start-up companies, managing projects and directing engineering departments. He has served the power industry as well as chemical, refining, pharmaceutical and manufacturing. The technologies involve syngas production, fuel reforming, combustion, thermal processing in porous inert media, catalysis and surface chemistry.
Beginning in 1977 he served in the Chemical Technology and Energy Divisions of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a group leader working on development of synthetic fuel technologies. This work brought him to the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation where he continued the commercialization of technologies to convert coal, oil shale, and tar sands into syngas, pipeline natural gas, chemical feed stocks, fuel oil, and gasoline.
From 1985 through 1995 Mr. DeCicco was a Senior Technical Associate and Senior Project Manager at International Technology Corporation. There he commercialized a transportable thermal treatment technology for remediating Superfund sites while putting in place the corporation's design/build/own/operate capability. His work earned him 3 U.S. patents, the "Project Team of the Year" award from the Project Management Institute, and brought IT Corporation almost $1 billion in revenue and a dominant position in the marketplace.
In 1995 Mr. DeCicco joined Thermatrix Inc. - a technology startup company in the early stages of commercializing the flameless thermal oxidation (FTO) process. In his role as Engineering Director he created and grew the company's plant design and technical service capability. He was also chief technical spokesperson for the companies products. The FTO process was successfully commercialized, scaled up, and installed at petroleum, chemical, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing plants world wide with the largest reactor system being 20-feet in diameter, 50-ft tall, and operating 6 in parallel.
In 2001 Mr. DeCicco joined EmeraChem LLC - a young technology company in the early stages introducing commercial catalyst products and commercializing the lean NOx trap catalyst technology. He advanced from Director of Operations, to V.P. of Operations, to Chief Operating Officer. As operations leader and the senior engineer in the company he has been involved in all aspects of product development, engineering, project management, purchasing, manufacturing and field service. His accomplishments include the design, testing, scale-up, and commercial demonstration of several catalyst technologies operating on conventional and alternative fuels.
Mr. DeCicco, received a B.S. in Chemical Engineer from New York University and an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from MIT.
He holds 3 U.S. Patents, has taught professional courses and produced over 40 publications including chapters in two McGraw-Hill handbooks.
