Team
The Element team has extensive experience in a wide
range of disciplines, including
electrochemistry, battery and pack manufacturing, power electronics, software development, and digital control and communications
systems.
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Dan Lankford -
CEO: Managing Director,
Wavepoint Ventures; former CEO, BOLDER
Technologies (IPO) (advanced battery
systems); former CEO, AT&T
Microelectronics - Europe
(semiconductors). BS (honors)
Engineering - Johns Hopkins University, MS
(Sloan Fellow) - Stanford Business School. |
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Eric Macris -
Founder and CTO: Co-founder,
Spring Automotive (plug-in hybrid
drivetrains); business development, Current
Communications (smart grid); founding team
member, Current TV; BSEE - UCLA, MPA -
Princeton University. |
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Eric Lawrence,
PhD - Senior Scientist/Engineer:
Research Scientist, Princeton Plasma
Laboratory; Research Fellow, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory; PhD Physics - UCLA. |
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Art Homa, PhD -
Electrochemistry and battery pack expert:
Chief Scientist, NEAH Power Systems; Senior
VP Technology & Manufacturing, BOLDER
Technologies; VP Technology, Rayovac; PhD
Electrochemistry, Case Western University. |
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John Bendel -
Analog power systems: Senior
VP of Low Voltage Power Group, Fairchild
Semiconductor; Senior Power Supply Engr,
Rugged Digital Systems, Inc. BSEE – UC
Davis. |
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Matt Taschner -
Engineering Manager: BS/MS
EE, University of Akron, focus on battery
management systems. |
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Sandy Abbott -
CFO: CFO Mediaplex (IPO), 8x8
(IPO), Infochip. BA - UC Riverside,
MBA - Santa Clara University. |
Board
of Directors & Advisors
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Jim Jones -
Board Chairman: Venture
Partner, Industry Ventures; former Managing
Director, Scale Venture Partners; former
Vice President of Product Marketing and
Business Development, 3Com Corporation;
former Director of Product Marketing,
National Semiconductor. |
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Dan Lankford -
CEO: Managing Director,
Wavepoint Ventures; former CEO, BOLDER
Technologies (IPO) (advanced battery
systems); former CEO, AT&T
Microelectronics - Europe
(semiconductors). BS (honors)
Engineering - Johns Hopkins University, MS
(Sloan Fellow) - Stanford Business School. |
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Eric Macris -
Founder and CTO: Co-founder,
Spring Automotive (plug-in hybrid
drivetrains); business development, Current
Communications (smart grid); founding team
member, Current TV; BSEE - UCLA, MPA -
Princeton University. |
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Jerry Brown -
Director: Partner, Brown
Ventures; advisor, Wavepoint/Diamond Head
Ventures; former VP/GM, Texas
Instruments/IBM; BSE NY Polytechnic
University, MS NYU. |
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Andreas
Truckenbrodt, Dr.-Ing. - Advisor:
CEO,
Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation (Daimler
fuel cell subsidiary); former Executive
Director, Hybrid Development Center,
DaimlerChrysler; BS
Mechnanical/Aeronautical Engineering,
Technical University Munich, Dr.-Ing.
Industrial Engineering, Technical
University Munich. |
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Seth Sanders,
PhD - Advisor: Professor of
Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley, with
focus on high-frequency power conversion
circuits and components, design and control
of electric machine systems, and nonlinear
circuit and system theory. |
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