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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Art Homa, PhD –
Electrochemistry and battery pack expert: Chief Scientist,
NEAH Power Systems; Senior VP Technology & Manufacturing, BOLDER
Technologies; VP Technology, Rayovac. |
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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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Ben Rolfe -
Communications & control systems: VP of Engineering,
Aetherwire and Location; Director of IC and software engineering,
Fantasma Networks; BS Information and Computer Science - UC Irvine. |
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Matt Taschner - engineer:
BS/MS(candidate) 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, Scale Ventures; 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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