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Article: Woburn firm's goal? World domination; Small company's filter cleans up diesel exhaust
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 13, 2007
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GLOBE NORTHWEST 1 / BUSINESS
WOBURN - GEO2 Technologies of Woburn is a small, fledgling
company with big ambitions: to have its patented filter for making
diesel engines cleaner and more fuel-efficient become the standard
for excellence worldwide.
To do that, the privately held company must license its
technology or be acquired by a global corporation, said chief
executive Rob Lachenauer, 46, who founded the firm 3 1/2 years ago
with Bilal Zuberi, 31, now vice president-product development.
Previously, both worked for the Boston Consulting Group;
Lachenauer as a partner, Zuberi as a consultant. The company's first
office was in Lachenauer's Weston garage. It moved into 5,000-
square-foot ...