Dr. Shreeram Wadekar is currently the Lead – rPET Product, with the PET business of Reliance Industries. He has 23 years of experience in the field of polyesters, mainly in PET. During his professional career, he has handled various responsibilities including rPET, PET polymerization technology adoption, sales, PET business development, new product & application development.

Prior to moving into Reliance, he worked with Indorama Ventures in PET Sales & Marketing and before that with JBF Industries Ltd in bottle grade PET.

Dr. Wadekar holds a Ph. D (Polymer) from ICT-Mumbai in 2000 and Post-Doctoral fellowship from University of Tennessee, USA. Dr. Wadekar holds several patents in the field of polyester/PET and co-author for a book chapter on Solid-State Polymerization of PET published by Wiley publishers. He is also a member of various BIS sub-committees responsible for the amendments of various Indian Standards on PET packaging and recycling.