Julie Zarraga is VP of Engineering at revolutionary carbon recycling company, LanzaTech. With over 30 years’ experience, Julie has been in the business of providing technical solutions to a global client base, taking technologies from pilot to commercial scale. Prior to joining LanzaTech, Julie was Director of Process Technology at Merichem Gas Technologies, where she managed all the technical groups (Engineering, Technical and Field Services, Technical Sales Support, R&D initiatives). Julie started her career at Honeywell-UOP, where for almost 20 years she led during the construction, commissioning, startup and guarantee testing phases of new commercial plants and developed and designed first of a kind processes. Julie’s leadership in innovation and value engineering helped implement cost-effective improvements for technologies and products across the scale up landscape.
At LanzaTech, Julie leads a cross-disciplinary engineering team and is responsible for the design and start-up of LanzaTech’s commercial operations globally, with the first commercial plant coming online in China in 2018.