A Houston, Texas-based chemicals industry executive, Michael Jusbasche is the CEO of ALTIVIA. He draws on more than three decades of leadership experience in the chemicals and petrochemicals manufacturing industry to oversee the company's growth and strategic development. Jusbasche has led ALTIVIA to become one of North America's largest privately held chemical producers by integrating and restructuring strategic acquisitions of chemical production assets.
In recent years, ALTIVIA has acquired chemical facilities previously operated by the Dow Chemical Company, Sunoco, PPG Industries, and others. These acquisitions have established ALTIVIA as a principal producer of key intermediate chemicals supplying diverse industries such as construction products, pharmaceuticals, agricultural and mining chemicals, paints and coatings, and organic peroxides supplied to plastic producers.
Michael Jusbasche founded ALTIVIA in 1986 as a producer of aluminum sulfate to service the municipal water treatment and paper production industries. Subsequently, through a partnership with Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA), ALTIVIA built Sodium Aluminate production facilities to supply the titanium dioxide and refining catalyst industries. ALTIVIA then expanded its product line to meet the increasing requirements of potable water treatment plants for stronger chlorinated disinfectants, including on-site chlorine dioxide generation.
Before founding ALTIVIA, Michael Jusbasche served four years as a managing partner at Continental Coastal Company, an oil and gas exploration company targeting largely depleted oil fields in Texas, Michigan, and Louisiana to develop enhanced recovery projects. Jusbasche began his career in 1978 as a lead reservoir engineer at Shell Oil Company's nascent offshore projects on the coast of California.
Michael Jusbasche holds an Engineer’s and a master’s degree in petroleum engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University.