CEO, PRESIDENT, TAE TECHNOLOGIES
WHY: Leads $5B-valued Foothill Ranch-based tech parent—nuclear fusion, energy beams, particle accelerators— spinning out firms after 20 years of researching, including cancer-hunter targeting inoperable tumors and EV super-charging business. $1.2B in backing.
IN THE NEWS: Company in July received additional $250M in funding from investors including Google and Chevron to build a sixth-gen research reactor. Funding supports company’s goal to develop and commercialize new source of clean energy that could fuel planet for next 100K years.
QUOTABLE: With one of the company’s power plants, “you could make copious electricity at economic rates with no detriment to the environment.”
