Board Advisory
Professor Zhenan Ba
- Chemistry/battery thought leader with over 25 year of experience
- Leading researcher in cutting edge battery materials
- Experience,Stanford Labs. Nokia, Bell Labs
- Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Chicago
- B.S. Chemistry, Nanjing University
Robert Kruse Jr.
- SVP Faraday Future, New Products
- Leading Expert in EVs, and battery technologies
- Experience, General Motors, Karma, QOROS
- M.S., Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan Fellow
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Missouri University of Science & Technology
Dr. Bilbert van den Hoek
- Leading expert in semiconductor technologies
- Finance, Operational and grown- focused executive
- Multiple papers and patents
- Experience, Novellus, Philips
Joseph R. Bronson
- Finance, capitalization and operations expert
- Former Pres COO & CFO at AMAT
- Former Pres. & COO at Sanmina-SCI
- Experience, FormFactor
Vice Admiral Doug Crowder (Retired)
- Military thought leader with
- Pentagon and DOD assignments
- Focus on new technology
- Deployments in private and public companies
- Experience, U.S. Navy, Boeing
- Olmsted Scholar, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- B.S., U.S. Naval Academy
Don Nissanka
- Credited with building the first fully automated lithium battery manufacturing plants in the USA
- Recognized battery & Storage expert
- Expert testimony to US Senate
- Experience, Kokam, Exergenix, Hawker
- M.S.c, Industrial Management
- B.S.c, Industrial Engineering & Technology Management, University of Central Missouri
John P. de Neufville
- Founded Voltaix, Inc. a high purity specialty gas business which was sold to Air Liquide America in 2013
- Experience, Eutectix, Voltaix, ECD DVONICS
- Ph.D Applied Physics, Harvard University
- M.S. Geology, Harvard University
- B.S., Geology, Yale University
Dennis Kloske
- Undersecretary for Export Administration in the Department of Commerce
- Experience, Dept. of Commerce, NATO
- B.A., Harvard University
- Oxford University Rhodes Scholar