Ben Saydah

Greater Chicago Area United States

Innovative commercial and technical leader

Energy / Oil

I am an experienced leader with over 18 years managing and working in start-up enterprises and multi-billion dollar public companies in the downstream energy industry and with early stage energy and biotech focused technology startups. During my 14 years at BP I gained extensive experience leading refinery operations, strategy development, M&A, transfer price negotiations and supply chain optimization. As the Vice President of Downstream at Sapphire Energy a leading algae to crude oil biofuels company, I led the business and technical development of a new bio-crude oil technology including the development of key partnerships with Linde, Phillips 66 and Tesoro. As Sapphire shifted strat...