Andrew Gollach
Partner at HAX
Andrew Gollach
Partner at HAX
New York City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2024 - Current
Principal
2022 - 2024
Associate
2022 - 2022
- On the investment team at HAX, SOSV's Engineering focused Deep Tech vertical. I manage our deal flow pipeline and due diligence process - I work with our portfolio companies on go-to-market, fundraising, financing and general strategy
Fellow
2021 - 2022
Intern
2020 - 2022
Due Diligence: Lead volunteer team of MBA, Masters and PhD students in conducting business due diligence for Seed to Series A stage investments.
Summer Scholar - Technology-to-Market
2021 - 2021
Conduct market research and TEA/DCF modeling for breakthrough technologies in the maritime sector. Helped develop a business strategy for new technologies in the maritime logistics space centered around the use of green shipping corridors.
Technical Service Manager
2019 - 2020
Developed technical sales proposals in support of account sales lead for catalyst sales in the distillate fuels space
Sr Global Services Engineer/Process Engineer
2018 - 2019
LanzaTech is a leader in the circular economy with its waste to fuels/chemicals technology. To date, LanzaTech has raised over $350 million in VC funding. I served as the Chief Technical Advisor on LanzaTech's first commercial-scale plant located in Hebei, China. I was responsible for leading a team of international engineers in the checkout, commissioning, and plant startup activities. The facility is the first commercial deployment of LanzaTech's award-winning gas fermentation technology. LanzaTech has raised over $150 million dollars since the facility came online.
Global Operations Engineer
2015 - 2018
Field Advisor I/II
2013 - 2015
UOP LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc, a Fortune 100 company. UOP has over 100 years of experience as a leading process licensor, equipment, and catalyst & adsorbent supplier in the refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries. As a Field Advisor in UOP's Field Operating Services (FOS) group, I travel to customer sites to provide a wide variety of services. FOS Technical Advisors assist our customers in new unit start-up, checkout, catalyst/adsorbent reloads, revamp, data collection, and other services. I have extensive training and experience across a wide range of UOP technologies. As a Chief Technical Advisor I travel to customer sites across the globe where I serve as the on-site contact for our customer and a liaison for UOP. I am responsible for leading a small group (1-4) of multinational and multicultural engineers in providing support and service to our customers. Hydroprocessing Project Experience: Checkout, loading, and commissioning on UOP Unionfining and Unicracking Process Units. Experience in Distillate Hydrotreating and 2 Stage Hydrocracking Locations: - Abu Dhabi, UAE (Technical Advisor/Chief Technical Advisor) - Cartagena, Colombia (Chief Technical Advisor) Aromatics Project Experience (Benzene & Xylene Production): Checkout, loading, and commissioning on a variety of UOP Aromatics technologies. Experienced in Extractive Distillation (Sulfolane), Liquid-Liquid Extraction (Sulfolane), Tatoray, Isomar, Parex and general fractionation. Locations: - Fujian Province, China (Assistant Advisor) - Yanbu, Saudi Arabia (Technical Advisor) - Singapore, Singapore (Chief Technical Advisor) - Incheon, South Korea (Chief Technical Advisor) - Mangalore, India (Chief Technical Advisor)
Development Engineer
2011 - 2013
Development Engineer - Hydroprocessing R&D - Worked on complex research projects with limited oversight - Proactively anticipate and prevent problems - Helped team deliver on-time results that contributed to a significant sale to a key customer