Our Team
Bonded by a passion for clean energy and climate change, our team is made up of world-class innovators, creators, and industry experts.
Founders
Vivas Kumar
Founder and CEO
Chirranjeevi Gopal
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder
William Chueh
Chief Scientific Advisor and Co-Founder; Professor of Material Science at Stanford University
Board of Directors
Will Drewery
Independent
Chamath Palihapitiya
Social Capital
Vivas Kumar
Founder and CEO
Advisory Board
Amit Narayan
CEO, AutoGrid
Pulakesh Mukherjee
Ex-BASF, Managing Partner – Imperative Ventures
Yuan Gao
Former CEO, Pulead Former Technical VP, Livent Board Director, Lithium Americas
Linda Nazar
Professor at University of Waterloo
Team
Akadyna Karaman
HR Generalist
Ameer Amin
Materials Engineer
Andrea Bowring
Staff Engineer
August Meng
Head of LFP & Manufacturing
Bree Phelps
Materials Engineer
Chloe Dieu
Battery Cell Engineer
Danien Scipio
Materials Engineer
Ebenezer Prasanna Gopikrishnan
Cell Engineer
Fern Morrison
Product Manager
Genevieve Richards
Executive Assistant
Gerardo Colmenares
Materials Engineer II
Gokul Nair
Battery Cell Engineer
Greyson Passey
Strategic Finance Associate
Gurbinder Kaur
Senior Metrology Engineer
Hamide Mohseni
Battery Data Analyst
Heather Medina
Head of People
Jangsoo Lee
Staff Engineer
Jordan Lampert
Distinguished Engineer
Joseph Fernandez
Lab Technician
Kipil Lim
Senior Scientist
Kyle Grimm
Recruiter
Liu Luo
Senior Chemical Engineer
Marie Herring
Engineering Manager
Matt Norman
Equipment Engineer
Maxwell Kushner-Lenhoff
Head of Commercial
Mehari Stifanos
Senior R&D Engineer
Mikhail Maksimov
Staff Engineer
Mykela DeLuca
Senior Battery Materials Engineer
Nedra Moreland
Lab Technician
Oliver Hickman
Lab Manager
Peter Csernica
Senior Scientist
Prateek Mehta
Engineering Manager, Acceleration
Quinn Truong
Materials Engineer
Ross Kirschner
General Counsel
Russell Pratt
Materials Scientist
Rutvik Vaidya
Engineering Manager, Cell Prototyping
Ryan Fillhouer
Characterization Engineer
Sai Manjula Panyam
Strategic Sourcing Manager
Sam Kalirai
Technical Program Manager
Sean Mullan
Materials Characterization Engineer
Shang-Hao (Henry) Huang
Process Engineer
Sruthi Natt
Senior Instrumentation Engineer
Stefan Steiner
Senior Software Engineer
Vikas Kante
Head of Finance
Wesley Michaels
Technical Program Manager
Xiaofei Ye
Head of LMFP & Engineering Infrastructure
