CEO & Co-Founder
Lead inventor with over a decade of advanced materials R&D experience in tunable nanostructured materials. Activate & DOE Cyclotron Road Fellow through Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, with 23 publications, 3 patents, and research featured in Wired and The Wall Street Journal.
Co-Founder & Chairman
Materials development & plasma leader, NSF Career Award recipient, DOE Early Career Award recognition, 4 patents, and 60+ publications
Senior Research Scientist
Deep expertise in plasma processing for advanced nanostructured materials, combining high-impact published research with hands-on systems development and execution.
Research & Scale-up Engineer
U.S. Army Veteran, materials scientist, Ph.D. scholar at UC Riverside, and entrepreneur with experience in high-throughput materials screening, process development, operations, and scale-up.
Business & Strategy Advisor
Three-time lithium-ion battery CEO with experience across battery manufacturing, customer relationships, strategic operations, and production scale-up.
Fundraising Advisor
Startup finance and investor relations leader with experience helping early-stage technology companies position, fundraise, and access growth capital.
Business Development Advisor
Former U.S. Army Green Beret and TechShop CEO with experience commercializing technical platforms, building manufacturing partnerships, and scaling founder-led ventures.
CEO of Independent Li-ion Testing Lab
Top 3rd-party validation, former VP Operations silicon Li-ion startup
Founder of the Guo Lab at UCR
Renowned battery researcher & advisor, recipient of 2014 Hellman Fellowship and 2018 NSF Career award
Professor Materials Science and Engineering
Georgia Tech
Stanford & Post Doc Cal Tech
recognized leader in next-gen battery development – expert in in-situ characterization
At 4th State Energies, we are on a mission to revolutionize
the energy storage industry through cutting-edge, scalable
plasma-created silicon anode technology.
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