As Chair and CEO of Carbon Clean, Aniruddha Sharma oversees the company’s strategy, commercial growth and project delivery operations. He is also Chair of the Board. Since co-founding Carbon Clean in 2009, Aniruddha has steered the company through several investment cycles, including funding from the UK Government and US Department of Energy. In May 2022, Carbon Clean set a record among point source carbon capture scale-ups with a Series C round that attracted $150m in funding. Under Aniruddha’s leadership, Carbon Clean has expanded globally, opening offices in the US and Canada, and growing its footprint in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. In January 2025, Carbon Clean was named Britain’s 7th fastest-growing private hardware company in The Sunday Times 100 Tech. Aniruddha graduated from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur with Master’s and Bachelor’s (Hons) degrees in Statistics and Informatics.