About THEMES

THEMES has assembled a team of experts with over 150 years of experience in developing and commercializing emerging technologies for the largest O&G companies in the world. Our team is dedicated to driving innovation and creating sustainable solutions that benefit both the environment and our clients.

Today, THEMES offers an Adiabatic Compressed Air Energy Storage solution that can deliver 12-24 hours of Energy Storage at 100+ MW scales using proven CAES surface technology with reconstructed idle gas well subsurface storage. Our technology provides a storage solution with a near-zero marginal cost, and a market best LCOS.

Our team is using its prior O&G knowledge to develop subsurface solutions for other LDES technologies; we are interested in working with Thermal and Mechanical energy storage technologies to continue advancing the deployment of energy storage solutions.

Dr. Ram Shenoy

Over his 25-year oil & gas industry career, Dr. Shenoy led research, engineering, manufacturing and development of first of a kind infrastructure at Schlumberger (now SLB). In his last position at SLB as VP of Research, Dr. Shenoy managed a research budget of $130 million pa. At ConocoPhillips, he was involved in several multibillion upstream oil & gas infrastructure projects, such as the LNG projects in Western Australia, and the oil sands development in Alberta Canada. As former executive director of the Project Production Institute, Dr. Shenoy is an expert in the application of operations science methods to execute large infrastructure projects.

Dr. Ashok Krishna

Dr. Krishna has led the licensing, engineering design, construction and commissioning of many clean fuels technology plants in the refining industry. Roughly 40% of the world’s refineries use technologies licensed by Chevron Lummus Global, where Dr. Krishna was Lead Director from 2002 until his retirement in 2018. He was board member of Catchlight Energy, a Chevron-Weyerhauser JV to convert biomass to fuels, He initiated many renewable fuel projects prior to retirement. Dr. Krishna supervised the team at Chevron’s Richmond Technology Center conceived of the Pascagoula Base Oil Project, designed it, supplied the catalysts and helped startup the plant in 2014. The total project cost was $1.4B, making Chevron a leading producer of long drain cycle lubricant base oils. Dr. Krishna’s organization led the development of a replacement for the use of HF acid in Alkylation, leading to the award-winning “ISOALKY” process, a ten-year project that resulted in the first commercial plant built at Chevron’s Salt Lake refinery, which was commissioned in 2021.

Dr. Steve Sciamanna

Dr. Sciamanna teaches in the Product Development Program, a professional MS degree from the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Dept. at UC Berkeley. Dr. Sciamanna serves on the industry merit and peer-review team for the DOE-Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) providing a value assessment of the AMO R&D portfolio. Dr. Sciamanna's extensive career at Chevron spanned domestic assignments in R&D, new technology development and deployment and upstream process engineering. Dr. Sciamanna received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) School of Chemical Engineering Practice.

Dr. Bhavani Raghuraman

Dr. Raghuraman has 35 plus years of R&D experience with expertise in reservoir modeling & optimization, oilfield water chemistry, oilfield fluid sensors and membrane-based separations. She retired as a Scientific Advisor from SLB after a 25-year career during which she held several leadership roles of increasing responsibility in R&D and Technology Commercialization. She is currently VP Technology (Subsurface) for THEMES, working towards commercialization of long duration energy storage technologies to accelerate the transition to clean energy.

Ben Hoffman

Ben Hoffman graduated from Texas A&M with a B.S. in Environmental Studies and an emphasis on regulation and compliance. Mr. Hoffman has spent the past 2 years working in the long duration energy storage market with a focus on thermal and mechanical solutions. Prior to working with THEMES, Mr. Hoffman managed waste disposal, remediation, and de-gassing projects in South Texas. Mr. Hoffman has also assisted on the development of rail and transportation of iron ore from the ports of South Texas to China.

Ananth Krishna

Ananth Krishna has 16+ years of experience in strategy and operations. He spent the last decade at The Boston Consulting Group, most recently as a Partner in the energy and digital practices, advising both oil & gas and utility executives across five continents on their most pressing challenges. He also served as the global energy industry node and interim North America leader for the enterprise agility practice. He has served 10+ Fortune 500 companies to define big-picture strategy, drive meaningful value and manage transformational change.

Before joining BCG, Ananth worked in corporate strategy roles at Mercer and Dun & Bradstreet. Prior to that, he was a part of the operations practice at McKinsey, where he focused on working with manufacturing clients on supply-chain and network optimization.

Ananth received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.