Speakers
Maurits van Tol
Johnson Matthey
CEO of Catalyst Technologies
Maurits joined Johnson Matthey in 2019 from Borealis where he was Senior Vice President
Innovation and Technology. Maurits was responsible for shaping the Circular Economy business for
Borealis as well as being part of the company’s management board responsible for their Plastics
business. Maurits was a senior leader with Borealis since 2012. Before that he spent 19 years with
Royal DSM in a wide variety of R&D, Innovation and Business Management roles.
Maurits has a PhD in Catalysis and an MSc in Physical Chemistry and Catalysis, both from Leiden
University, Netherlands. Parts of his studies were also performed at the University of East Anglia,
and UC Berkeley. He shares our passion for science having achieved 18 patents and 30 publications
and he sits on a number of Advisory Boards for Technology across the Chemicals Sector.