A PODCAST BY AKSELOS
The physical systems that make modern life possible.
Every episode brings on board a person from the industry to share their remarkable stories that wouldn’t make headlines.
~20 minutes
PER EPISODE
Video first
FORMAT
About the series
For the industry. By the industry.
Asset Life is a new podcast series from Akselos exploring the stories of the assets and the people that make our modern lifestyle possible, built around a simple belief: the assets that keep modern life moving deserve better stories.
They rarely make headlines when they work. They only become visible when something breaks, prices spike, or supply tightens.
But behind the stability of everyday life are refineries, terminals, vessels, and the people whose work makes our way of life possible.
This series is for those people, and for the remarkable stories that deserve to be told.
Asset Life is not outside commentary on industry. It is the industry telling the stories that keep the world running.
Expect conversations with operators, engineers, executives, economists, policymakers, academics, and industry voices — all exploring the physical systems we depend on, the decisions behind them, and the people who keep them alive.
Oz Rodriguez | Host
Oz hosts the conversations. The guest and the asset carry the episode. Each interview is a genuine exchange — no script, no gotchas.
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EP. 02
Devotion to Human Performance
A HYROX world championship racer, a career chemist, and a rule he applies to both: small correct decisions, repeated, beat the big dramatic move.
Dr. Bill Bender
Chief Innovation Officer, Duravi
Bill Bender raced at the HYROX World Championship in Stockholm, decades into a parallel career deciding which industrial technologies are worth backing. This conversation ties the two together around one line: “inside that, there’s a chemistry kid.”
Endurance sport and industrial chemistry, he says, reward the same thing, and that same instinct is what’s shaped a career spent helping other people’s breakthroughs make it to market, most recently landing him at Duravi.
ALL EPISODES
EP. 01
From Molecule to Market
DME is a fuel molecule that’s been sitting in refrigerators and aerosol cans for a century. This episode is about how it also became a diesel replacement.
Guest: Elliot Anise-Hicks | Co-Founder & Board Director, Oberon Fuels
EP.02
Devotion to Human Performance
A HYROX world championship racer, a career chemist, and a rule he applies to both: small correct decisions, repeated, beat the big dramatic move.
Guest: Dr. Bill Bender | Chief Innovation Officer, Duravi
