The Leadership Team

Uli Mittermaier - CEO, is an accomplished serial tech entrepreneur with a genuine passion for technology and innovation.

He is complemented by an exceptional team of highly sophisticated alumni from TUM: Tim Simon Klose, Sofía Ramírez Bernini, and Joachim Sturm.

They’re engineers, scientists, and builders working to make palm oil part of the climate solution. Their goal is simple: to turn agricultural waste into benefits for mills, farmers and climate.

The Competitive Edge

Biochar is produced through pyrolysis — a thermo-chemical process that heats biomass at high temperatures in a controlled, oxygen-deprived environment. It locks away the CO₂ captured by plants during photosynthesis, preventing its release during natural decay.

Their patent-pending pyrolysis reactor is engineered specifically for empty fruit bunch (EFB) biomass — delivering unmatched efficiency, reliability, and carbon-negative performance for the palm oil industry.

Gigafex operates from a fundamentally different playbook than established players. While European competitors remain bound to localized, expensive wood supply chains and grid-dependent infrastructure, Gigafex has engineered a truly decentralized model—converting agricultural waste (EFB) directly into premium biochar at the source.

This asset-light approach creates a powerful moat across three critical dimensions: production costs, feedstock security, and environmental impact. By eliminating expensive logistics, grid dependency, and virgin material procurement, Gigafex has built a model that scales efficiently across geographies while competitors remain constrained by their legacy cost structures.