Thilo von Trotha

Strategic Business & Technology Development Leader with Market Vision

Spring, Texas, United States

About

Strategic business and technology leader with a proven ability to turn new and existing chemical processes into practical, economically optimized, and sustainability‑driven engineering solutions. Deep expertise across hydrogen, syngas, ammonia, methanol, DRI, carbon capture, electrolysis, and a broad range of other chemical and refining technologies. Known for shaping enterprise direction, aligning stakeholders, and applying rigorous cost, efficiency, and implementation insight to deliver high‑value, profitable, and customer‑focused outcomes.

Experience

  • Linde (Full-time · 5 yrs 5 mos)
    • Senior Technology Expert – Clean Energy Technologies R&D
      Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    • Business Development Technical Director
      Mar 2021 - Feb 2026 · 5 yrs

      Large Project Development Group Coordinating $400+MM projects, economic/financial FEL0 models for gray, blue and green projects, carbon capture technologies, synthesis gas technologies, ammonia, methanol, hydrogen (gray, blue, green, white/natural), electrolysis, gas turbines, power/energy storage and transportation, renewable fuels/SAF, competitor analysis, disruptive technologies, mentor for master thesis about renewable diesel/SAF, AI approaches to summarize design specifications for some 300+ Linde plants.

  • Business Development Director at Praxair
    Oct 2015 - Feb 2021 · 5 yrs 5 mos

    Hydrogen, Syngas, Carbon monoxide, Ammonia, Refinery, SMR, ATR, POX Development of strategic plant and business concepts for customers and existing assets related to favorable technical solutions. Conceptual design for 600+ MMSCFD/660,000+ Nm3/h built H2 SMRs making a 40+% foot print in Linde's H2 Gulf coast production, economic/financial models for FEL0.

  • ThyssenKrupp (9 yrs 2 mos)
    • Process Development Manager, Product Development
      Feb 2014 - Sep 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos

    • Director Syngas Technology
      Oct 2012 - Jan 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Business development of Hydrogen, Syngas, and Ammonia plants, Technical evaluation and consolidation of process concepts for business approaches, Primary technical contact to support technology approach with the alliance partner Praxair.

    • Chief Process Engineer
      Apr 2011 - Sep 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Alliance engineer with Praxair (now merged with Linde). Development of hydrogen and syngas approaches for Praxair. Instrumental work to align TKIS and Praxair design requirements including of identification of improvements.

  • Head of Process Department at RAM Gelsenkirchen
    Jul 2004 - Jul 2006 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Project manager for several projects. For BP Gelsenkirchen, I was asked for the BP project team to present the project to BP's senior management. Furthermore, I was asked to develop quite some of the required project documents (CVP) from scratch. BP's CVP process was just introduced and I and mostly none of the documents/templates were available for the site. The project installed an underground revamp during the operation of an olefine plant. The project got a high approval ranking and is meanwhile finished. I invented a design for an explosion save sewer system, which has been copied several times by BP.

  • Process Engineer at process design center
    Nov 1996 - Jun 2004 · 7 yrs 8 mos