Arnab Chatterjee
Arnab Chatterjee is Manager, New Business Development for Hydrogen and Battery Electric, working within Shell New Energies. Originally from London, Arnab has been with Shell for nearly 5 years. His work is at the intersection of Markets, Technology and Policy, with a focus on Mobility futures.
Arnab has looked at improving mobility efficiency at a systems level, developing concepts in city freight optimisation from desk through to trial and execution in Manila and has recently kicked off work on Aviation Futures. He has also developed autonomous guidance systems, ultimately with uses within Well drilling, in the course of which he initiated the Shell AI Residency here at Berkeley. He currently is leading work around decarbonising the heavy duty vehicle sector as well as light duty EV infrastructure development. He has previously led the efforts for Hydrogen Electric in UK and Germany.
Arnab is a member of the Leadership Council at Cyclotron Road, the leading Silicon Valley clean technology incubator, an advisor to the MAN futures accelerator and the Sustainable Ocean Alliance. Prior to joining Shell, Arnab worked at McKinsey & Co and at Sofinnova Partners where he deployed 70M USD into industrial biotechnology/renewable companies at series A/B level. He went on to work at a portfolio company, BioAmber where he headed the product development team and was part of the team that took it to IPO.
Arnab has multiple papers and patents in fields of chemistry, chemical engineering, trajectory control and product development, and has spoken widely on the transition to a lower carbon future. He has a DPhil in Semiconductor Chemistry from Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD.