We believe the materials of tomorrow can be built with the waste of today

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fashion
textile
plastics
automotive
industry is broken
The hard facts
textiles are recycled into new materials
<
1
%
textile waste is incinerated each year
$
100
bn+
global emissions from plastics
>
8
%

Together, we’re building the future of circular materials

We’re a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and operators building the technologies to make polymers truly circular, starting with nylon.

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Meet the team

Marco Bertone
Marco Bertone
CEO & Co-Founder

An LSE alumnus named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe 2025 list, he brings the commercial instinct and entrepreneurial drive to scale green chemistry from the lab to global industry.

Ash Ward
Ash Ward
CTO

Ash is a UC Berkeley PhD, who spent over a decade scaling deep tech at start ups Sila and Northvolt before bringing that expertise to the challenge of making Nylon recycling a global industrial reality.

Jean Sentenac
Jean Sentenac
Board Member & Scale-Up Advisor

Former CEO of Axens, École Polytechnique alumnus, and Prix Chaptal laureate, Jean brings decades of experience in industrial chemistry and process scale-up to Syntetica’s next stage of growth.

Louis Monsigny
Co-Founder & Researcher
Jaume Aleñar Chortey
Lead Process Engineer
Sam Clough
Industrial Project Manager
Mahmoud Ibrahim
Product Lead
Albert Issa
R&D Manager
Alice Castan
R&D Manager
Florian Tochon
Finance & Strategy Lead
Matthew Leonardi
Polymer Researcher
Damien Eustache
Execution Operations Lead
Alessandra Procopio
R&D Engineer
Emeric Burel
Process Engineer
Edgar Cao
R&D Project Manager
Matteo Pietraccini
Process Engineer
Jyotsna Gopinath
Product Engineer
Melanie Stramotas
Process Engineer
Michael Murcia
Kilolab Technician

This mission is bigger than us

We’re backed by world-class partners, brands and institutions.

we’re hiring

Join the team

We’re looking for ambitious, talented, mission-driven individuals to join us in making a circular economy a reality.

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