Meet the Team
Our team at ZCS is made up of highly experienced engineers, with extensive backgrounds in mechanical and process engineering, and a high level of commitment to the Company’s core mission of removing CO2 at the gigaton+ level to help address climate change.
David Elenowitz, Founder and CEO
David Elenowitz is Founder and CEO of ZCS. He is also President of Zero Carbon Partners, an investment and strategic/operating firm focused on emerging companies in the low carbon space, funded with his own capital. Mr. Elenowitz is also a Senior Advisor to Global Thermostat (a leading company engaged in carbon dioxide removal via Direct Air Capture), and is on the board of Solidia (a leading company in the CO2-to-concrete space). Previously, Mr. Elenowitz ran Mercury Capital, a private equity firm, where he led the acquisition and ran a number of companies with total revenues in excess of $1 billion – including Empire Today, a flooring company he grew from $40 million to $700 million in revenues, and successfully exited in 2016.
Charles Sanderson, Senior Vice President of Engineering
Charles Sanderson has been deeply involved in developing novel process and mechanical designs to make the economic and environmental footprint of our process as attractive as possible. He has been engaged in new process technology development for more than two decades, taking several processes from lab to commercial scale and identifying commercial or technical flaws in many others early in the design stage. Dr Sanderson has also led teams addressing operational challenges of larger facilities that help inform the design of new ones. Dr Sanderson’s prior experience includes time in AspenTech’s consulting group; Cargill’s Corporate Research; and a cleantech startup, Renmatix. Dr Sanderson also founded CS Sanderson LLC, an AspenTech Integrated Service Provider. Dr. Sanderson got his Chemical Engineering degree in England and his PhD in Australia.
We are hiring!
Zero Carbon System is growing and hiring!
We are always seeking top-performing engineers who have a passion for addressing climate change to join our team. Please reach out to us: