Douglas Chan

Douglas Chan oversees the Operations of Climeworks, building on his experience leading manufacturing and energy projects around the world. Douglas is responsible for Climeworks’ plant operations as well as structuring the supply chain, project execution, and production teams that are needed to enable direct air capture and storage (DAC+S) to reach gigaton capacity by 2050. He also serves as General Manager US, leading Climeworks' business expansion into the United States. Before Climeworks, Douglas was latest with Tesla, where he contributed to scaling operations internationally. Douglas is from Australia and splits his time between Switzerland and the US.