Marcus co-founded Biomettha along with Sanjay and Senthil in 2015. The seeds for this start-up were sown during his time at National University of Singapore, while working on Industrial ecology – exploring ways to convert waste to wealth. He holds bachelors in Biotechnology (Sathyabama University, Chennai) and Masters in Environmental Management (NUS, Singapore). He was a doctoral student for a brief period in Sustainable Food Systems at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Marcus is an experienced sustainability researcher specializing in life cycle analysis. He also contributes to open source sustainability projects and undertakes sustainability consultancy assignments.