LEADERSHIP TEAM

Dr. Lewis Dunnigan
CEO & Co-Founder

Lewis has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Adelaide and MEng from the University of Edinburgh. He has been named in the Top 50 Small Business Leaders in Australia and is passionate about developing climate focused technologies that contribute to the development of the circular economy.

Ben Morton
CTO & Co-Founder

Ben has a BSc in Chemistry and Physics from Flinders University and is a specialist in materials science and organic chemistry. Having previously worked in industry as a fertiliser formulation scientist, he is dedicated to commercialising technologies that can help remediation problems across the world. Ben was named the Agricultural Innovation Award winner by Prime Super in 2020.

HISTORY

Bygen was founded from technology developed within Dr. Philip Kwong's research group at the University of Adelaide in 2017. Dr. Kwong's work focused on the development of new, low-cost, methods of producing high-quality and sustainable activated carbon from agricultural and winery wastes. As a result of grant funding awarded to Dr. Kwong, a small-scale laboratory pyrolysis and activation unit was constructed and used to optimise the technology utilised by Bygen. He continues to focus on research related to material science, pollution control, and process engineering