Speakers

Johnson Matthey

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.