CEO, TAE POWER SOLUTIONS
WHY: Leads company aiming to enable faster battery charging for electric vehicles and provide better storage for wind and solar energy; it’s a spinoff from TAE Technologies, which is on a quarter-century quest to produce nearly unlimited amounts of nuclear fusion energy.
IN THE NEWS: New subsidiary announced earlier this year, already counted more than 250 employees. The parent company is moving to a new facility in Irvine.
NOTABLE: Joined TAE in 2022 from Applied Materials, a Fortune 200 company where he spent 16 years.
QUOTABLE: “We’ve been incubated within TAE Technologies now for close to three years.”