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 Product 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
Ameer Amin
Materials Engineer
Andrea Bowring
Staff Engineer
August Meng
Process Engineering Manager
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
Greyson Passey
Strategic Finance Analyst
Gurbinder Kaur
Senior Metrology Engineer
Hamide Mohseni
Materials Engineer
Heather Medina
Head of People
Jangsoo Lee
Staff Engineer
Jordan Lampert
VP Product Development
Joseph Fernandez
Lab Technician
Kipil Lim
Senior Scientist
Kyle Grimm
Recruiter
Liu Luo
Senior Scientist
Marie Herring
Engineering Manager
Matt Norman
Equipment Engineer
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
Russell Pratt
Materials Scientist
Rutvik Vaidya
Senior Battery Cell Engineer
Ryan Fillhouer
Characterization Engineer
Sai Manjula Panyam
Supply Chain Analyst
Sam Kalirai
Engineering Manager, Metrology
Shang-Hao (Henry) Huang
Materials Engineer
Sruthi Natt
Senior Instrumentation Engineer
Stefan Steiner
Senior Software Engineer
Tristi Owen
Materials Engineer
Vikas Kante
Head of Finance
Wesley Michaels
Senior Data Scientist
Xiaofei Ye
Director, Engineering Infrastructure
