Meet the Team

Dr. Michael Puls
Managing Director/Head of Research and Development

Dr. Michael Puls is Managing Director and Head of Research and Development of the company. He holds a PhD in enzyme engineering from University of Duesseldorf. He was Managing Director of evocatal GmbH and member of the initial team of the company after its foundation in 2006. Michael successfully worked on building the company brand and expanding the customer base. He supervised the development of several key enzymes and key business fields. After the formation of evoxx technologies GmbH Michael continued as VP business development until the company was acquired by Advanced Enzyme Technologies. In 2018 Michael took over responsibility for all Research and Development activities at evoxx.

Ms. Martina Doering

Managing Director /Head Of Business Development

Martina Doering is Managing Director (Head of Business Development) of evoxx technologies GmbH. She was co-founder of aevotis GmbH which she managed as CEO jointly with Dr.Volker Landschütze until the company was acquired by evocatal GmbH in 2013. Ms. Doering studied agricultural sciences at the University of Göttingen and has been employed for 25+ years in various positions in the agrochemical industry (Schering, AgrEvo, Aventis, Bayer CropScience).

She has extensive experience in product and portfolio management and business development. She represented AgrEvo in the founding of PlantTec Biotechnologie GmbH and built up and was managing director of Solavista GmbH & Co KG, a joint company of Bayer CropScience and AVEBE. Since 2015 she took over responsibility as Managing Director (CSO) of evocatal GmbH and evoxx technologies GmbH.

Mukund Kabra Managing Director

Mukund Kabra is Managing Director of evoxx technologies.

Mr. Mukund Madhusudan Kabra, is the Managing Director of our Company. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Sambalpur University. He has over 20 years of experience in enzyme industry and joined our Company in the year 1995. He is responsible for overlooking the manufacturing operations of the Company at Sinnar and Indore and for optimising the fermentation for existing products, strain improvement, downstream research and analytical research.

Dr. Anil Gupta Managing Director Dr. Anil Gupta is a Ph.D. in Microbiology with over 18 years of experience in Industrial Biotechnology. He has published over 18 research papers in journals of national and international repute. Prior to his joining Advanced Enzymes, he also received the coveted Young Scientist Award Project from Department of Science & Technology, Govt. Of India and has worked as Principal Investigator in several research projects. In 1996, Dr. Gupta joined Advanced Enzymes a junior research associate in the Process Microbiology Lab. Initial projects involved improvement of yields for existing enzymes and scale up of certain newly developed enzymes. Paucity of financial and human resources added to the challenges that Dr. Gupta thrived upon and finally overcame. Since then, he is largely attributed with the successful development of several enzymes from microbial-scale to commercial-scale production levels. Today, as Managing Director at Evoxx and, General Manager Research & Development at Advanced Enzymes, Dr. Gupta heads the process development, proteomics & the applied microbiology labs and leads the research effort in developing several new commercially-viable enzymes every year. He and his teams efforts lend the much needed strength & depth to Advanced Enzymes marketing team as it expands into newer industries & newer geographies.