Team

Strong Executive Team

Management

Mark Hatch, DBA, MBA

CEO

Award-winning CEO, 16 years in manufacturing. Corp. Dir. of Global Tech Biz Dev @ Avery Dennison & CEO Co-Founder of TechShop MFG Innovation Centers. Raised $10’s M, P&L’s over $200M, and 100’s of employees.

Lorenzo Mangolini, Ph.D.

Co-Founder & Chairman, Inventor of Plasma Process

Materials Development
NSF Career Award,
DOE Early Career Award, 4 patents, 60+ Publications

Pankaj Ghildiyal, Ph.D.

CTO, Lead Inventor

22 publications, 3 patents, expert in tunable nano-structured materials. Research featured in Wired magazine and The Wall Street Journal

Consulting Operations Advisor

Art Salyer, MBA

Lithium-ion Battery scale-up CEO

C-suite for three Li-ion battery companies.
PE and VC firm Advisor
30+ Years of Manufacturing Operations & Greenfield Plant openings

Experienced Advisory Board

3rd Party Battery Testing Lab Founder & CEO

Doug Morris

CEO of Independent Li-ion Testing Lab

Top 3rd Party Validation
Former VP Operations
Silicon Li-ion Startup

Recognized Battery Researcher

Professor Juchen Guo, Ph.D.

Founder of the Guo Lab at UCR

Renowned Battery Tech Advisor
Recipient of a 2014 Hellman Fellowship and 2018 NSF Career award. Well-recognized battery researcher.

Plasma Researcher

Professor Uwe Kortshagen, Ph.D.

Professor Mechanical Engineering – University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota Recognized leader in the design and development of plasma processes

In-Situ Characterization Researcher

Professor Matthew McDowell, Ph.D.

Professor Materials Science and Engineering

Georgia Tech
Stanford & Post Doc Cal Tech
Recognized leader in next-gen battery development – expert in in-situ characterization