International Zeolite Corp. announced Andrew Corradini has been appointed as Chief Commercial Officer and member of the executive management team. In this role, Andrew will be responsible for commercialization of zeolite value add products and solutions, driving IZ's business growth and market share, and ensuring the integrated commercial success of the organization. Previously a member of IZ's Board of Advisors, Corradini has over 30 years of experience in venture growth strategy, commercialization, and market development across a variety of technical industries, including AgTech/biotech, green energy and biofuels, and information technology. He has most recently served as an adviser to AgwaFarm, and Chief Operating Officer of a Silicon Valley biomaterials technology venture. Corradini served as founder, CTO and CEO for a waste-to-biofuels venture for a process he developed and patented. He raised seed funding, leading to the successful building of a pilot plant and Series A term sheets from top-tier Silicon Valley venture capital firms and exit via a private equity
acquisition. He holds a U.S. patent for a process to convert waste greenhouse gases into synthetic gasoline and another filed for a novel synthetic process involving ionic liquids and rare metal catalysts. He has worked on the development of eco-friendly bioplastics produced by microbes from industrial waste, and also derived from chitin from waste crustacean shells. Corradini holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.