Karl W. Feilder

Co-founder and CEO, Dragonfly
Dragonfly is a disruptive entrant into the HEFA refining market, building regional scale refineries ten times smaller than has been the norm. Dragonfly brings together veterans from the O&G and biofuels industries, bundling feedstock, technology and delivery into a unified platform to enable regional fuel distributors to bring SAF and HVO on stream from local waste at record speed and record low cost. The company has a unique understanding of the infrastructure, supply chain, and development bottlenecks that prevent emerging markets from independently producing sustainable fuels, hence its regional business model. This enables regional self-sufficiency, scaling of national decarbonisation mandates, and buying and selling in local currencies. Dragonfly is also patenting DragonAI, the small language model trained specifically in carbon conversion factors, carbon calculation methodologies, and LCA (life cycle analysis) standards, developed for DragonSoft. This software enables automatic, accurate, real time calculation of carbon footprints for recyclable materials and waste-to-value substances.