Damian Beauchamp has been with 8 Rivers for eight years, serving as President and Chief Development Officer for the past three years, during this time 8 Rivers technologies, projects, and business model innovations have raised over a $2B in capital and created >$4B in market-based value. Through his career he has developed an expertise in CCUS related project and technology development. Damian was also a member of the Board of Directors for both NET Power for three years prior to its going public on the NYSE (NPWR). In 2020, he was a co-author of the US National Petroleum Council’s comprehensive CCUS report Meeting the Dual Challenge A Roadmap to At-Scale Deployment of CCUS, which was commissioned by then US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry. He has serval awarded and pending patents in chemistry, chemical engineering, and other fields. Prior to joining 8 Rivers, he started two companies for which he has been featured in Forbes (Forbes 30Under30) and Fortune magazines, while also having received several entrepreneurial awards along the way. Additionally, his work in field of chemistry related to the solar energy conversion and storage into hydrogen and batteries has been published and/or featured in Nature Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, and C&E News. Damian holds a master’s in chemistry from The Ohio State University during which time he received the SciFinder Future Leader in Chemistry Award from a division of the American Chemical Society and the won the US DOE Clean Energy Business Plan Prize. His bachelor’s degree in chemistry was earned magna cum laude from Kent State University while a National Science Foundation scholar.