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American Data Centers Construction Forum 2026

External Event - Conference/Exhibition

From: Wednesday, Oct 28 2026

To: Thursday, Oct 29 2026

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Houston, United States

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Johan Malan

Head of Licensing, North America +

Johan Malan Head of Licensing, North America

Johan Malan is the Head of Licensing for Topsoe in North America, with more than 20 years of experience in syngas generation, gas clean-up and manufacturing of synthetic fuels and chemicals. His work experience ranges from Research and Development, Process Design, Commissioning and Start-up, Operations and Technology Licensing. He started his career with Sasol in South-Africa, working at the Secunda coal based synthetic fuels facility before moving to R&D where he continued the advancement of Sasol’s Fischer-Tropsch technology. He was the Lead FT Licensor for the Escravos Gas-to-Liquids start-up in Nigeria, and the Concept and Licensing Engineering Manager for Syngas Generation at Sasol before moving to the USA in 2015 to join Velocys Inc. While at Velocys he was the Commissioning Manager for the ENVIA Energy Landfill Gas-to-Liquids facility in Oklahoma City, the first commercial facility of its kind in the world. Before joining Topsoe, he spent two years as a Senior Consultant with Hatch’s Anything-to-Liquids division. Johan is a Chemical Engineer by training and holds a Doctorate in Process Engineering from the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

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