Dr Neville Hargreaves
Dr Neville Hargreaves
Vice President, Waste to Fuels
Velocys Technologies Limited

Neville is responsible for Velocys’ waste to fuels business, including the Altalto waste-to-jet-fuel project in the UK. This project is planned to take half a million tonnes of municipal and commercial solid waste, and use it to make sustainable aviation fuel with net negative carbon emissions. Neville is active in the SAF industry, in the UK and elsewhere; he is a director of the Renewable Transport Fuel Association and a member of the UK’s Jet Zero Council. Neville has over 30 years' experience in the oil, renewable energy and consulting industries, including 12 years with Exxon, where he led technical and commercial teams bringing over 70 new products to market, 4 years with Bain and Company, and 11 years with Velocys. He has also led two small businesses and launched a successful innovation programme for the UK government. He holds an MA in chemistry from Cambridge University and a PhD from University College London, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.