Bakaya is a cleantech entrepreneur with experience across three continents. Prior to PK Clean, Bakaya worked at Venture Capital firms Accel Partners and Globespan Capital, as well as DFJ-backed Attero Recycling. Bakaya has been selected as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, a Lightspeed Venture Fellow and named to the Fortune 40 under 40 Ones to Watch List, and Forbes 30 under 30 List in Energy. She graduated from MIT and Stanford with Honors.

Coates is PK Clean’s design guru, responsible for designing and building PK Clean’s first commercial-scale unit. Coates has over a decade of experience spanning ST Microelectronics, Amaron Energy & Combustion Resources, where he designed and built everything from microchips to pilot plants. He graduated in Electrical Eng from UC Berkeley in 1999 and is a Chemical Eng PhD candidate at UUtah focused on plastic to oil. He holds a perfect 4.0 GPA.