Speaker & Presentation Spotlights
Davide Andrea the designer of Elithion’s Lithiumate and Lithiumotive families of Li-Ion BMSs, and the leader of Elithion’s Large Li-Ion battery design and manufacture department. Davide co-founded Hybrids Plus, to convert Prius and Ford Escape HEVs to PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid). He is the author of the book “Battery Management Systems for Large Lithium-Ion Battery Packs, (Artech House, 2010).
Michael Barlage is a practicing professional engineer for 45 years in multiple fields, including Lasers, Gas Turbine and Diesel Control Systems, Power Electronics and Power Supply Design. He was the first place winner of Design News magazine’s “Excellence in Design” award in 1995 and second place winner in 1993. He holds five patents with more than forty Invention Disclosures filed.
Jack Black is Business Development Manager at DLS Electronics Systems, Wheeling, IL a full service compliance testing and consulting organization. Mr. Black has over 30 years experience in the compliance industry, and is a senior member of the Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers, and is currently chairman of the Electromagnetic Compatibility Society chapter in Chicago, IL, and is past chairman of the IEEE Technical Conference and Exhibition on Today’s Engineering Challenges.
Joshua Buettner-Garrett is a Senior Research Scientist at ADA Technologies, Inc. where he is overseeing ADA’s efforts to develop advanced electrode and electrolyte materials for energy storage devices including lithium-ion batteries and ultracapacitors. In conjunction with his role at ADA, Josh is completing his PhD at Colorado State University where his research has focused on the development of battery cathodes with improved specific energy, cycle life and safety.
Rich Byczek is the Technical Lead, Electric Vehicle and Energy Storage based in the Intertek Detroit facility. He has 16 years experience in product development and validation testing, specifically in the areas of energy storage, audio equipment and EMC. Rich has been with Intertek for 8 years, and holds an Electrical Engineering degree from Lawrence Technological University.
Norman Chow earned a B.A.Sc. and an M.A.Sc. in Metals and Materials Engineering from the University of British Columbia. He is a Registered Professional Engineer (P. Eng.) in British Columbia. He has over 15 years of technology development and contract research experience. Norman co-invented a patented electrochemical metal cleaning process that has over fifty installations in twelve different countries with multi-national metal producers. He is the President of Kemetco Research, Inc., which he formed after acquiring the Industrial Process Division of BC Research, Inc.
Dan Friel, Leyden Energy Director of Systems Engineering, has been involved with consumer rechargeable batteries since the early 1990′s while at Duracell when he co-developed the smart battery standards with Intel for laptop computers. Since then he has worked for multiple firms in the battery and power management industry, including PowerSmart, Microchip Technologies, Honeywell Batteries, PowerPrecise Solutions, Texas Instruments and now Leyden Energy. Dan has authored three book chapters on rechargeable battery technology and has over 10 US patents.
Kevin Gering is the INL lead for Developmental and Applied Diagnostic Testing (DADT) of electrochemical systems, having considerable experience in designing experimental protocols for battery testing, as well as diagnostic analysis and modeling of test data. He oversees DOE Applied Battery Research projects within the INL Energy Storage Materials Laboratory, with emphasis on electrolytes, alternative electrode materials, and surface-driven phenomena. Dr. Gering oversees a seminal collaboration with the University of Hawaii regarding path dependence of battery aging for batteries put into vehicular service (HEV, PHEV, etc). Special areas of interest include chemical physics modeling of electrolytes, molecular-based interfacial modeling of electrochemical systems, consequences of ion solvation, battery thermodynamics, prognostic evaluation of path dependence and mechanisms of battery aging, and thermal management of electric drive vehicles.
James Jackson is the Battery Business Developer, N.A, within Siemens Industry Automation Division. He focuses on providing Automation and Drives solutions for Advanced Battery Manufacturers and Equipment Manufacturers within the e-mobility, stationary storage, aerospace, medical, and military battery industries. His primary focus resides in lithium ion battery automation, where he works with various OEMs to provide turnkey automation and drives solutions within the U.S. He is knowledgeable on the production of electrode, cell, and battery packs and is engaged with these machine builders to provide cost-effective integrated automation, safety, and production transparency on a common network communications platform.
As CEO, John Jung sets the strategic vision for Greensmith and drives operational results. John is heavily focused on Greensmith’s growth, including an upcoming Series B capital raise. John joined the Greensmith team in early 2009 and brings more than 16 years of technology start-up and strategy consulting experience in multiple vertical sectors including the electric utility industry. Prior to Greensmith, John held C-level roles at four venture capital-backed technology companies, including Pantellos, a B2B electronic marketplace serving 21 of the 25 largest electric utilities in North America.
Michael Krysiak is a research scientist at ADA focusing on energy storage and CNT-based materials. Michael’s expertise encompasses nanostructure material synthesis and characterization, inorganic synthesis, electrochemical sensors, and electrochemical energy storage devices. He has worked extensively with lithium ion batteries, ultracapacitors, Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) catalysis materials and numerous spectral and electrochemical analysis techniques. Michael is also an accomplished machinist with years of experience engineering design process and structural failure mode analysis.
Pierre Mars is the VP of Quality and Applications Engineering for CAP-XX Ltd. He jointly holds three patents on supercapacitor applications. Pierre has a BE electrical (1st class hons) and an MEng Sc from the University of NSW, Australia, in addition to an MBA from INSEAD, France. He is also a member of the IEEE.
Cindy Millsaps is president and CEO of Energy Assurance, LLC. Prior to establishing Energy Assurance, Cindy worked in global regulatory approvals, quality systems management, product safety and product qualification testing with emphasis on information technology equipment,power/energy and batteries. Beginning her career with Underwriters Laboratories(UL) she moved to Motorola where she was part of the start-up management team at Motorola Product Testing Services.
Alex Mishinger is Product Safety Engineer for DLS Conformity Assessment, a product safety compliance testing and consulting organization in Wheeling, IL. Mr. Mishinger has over 20 years combined engineering experience, including 10 years of compliance testing, with 5 years as a UL safety engineer. Mr. Mishinger is a graduate of Devry University in Chicago, and has spent the last year focusing on the compliance of wireless charging systems.
Phillip Roberts is the CEO and founder of California Lithium Battery and is the primary inventor of the new CalBattery high-energy silicon graphene based advanced lithium ion battery. Phil has more than 25 years successful management experience in major corporations and small private businesses as a successful and recognized inventor and cleantech entrepreneur focusing in the cleantech field, helping establish advanced technology businesses based on transformational technologies.
Sameer Singhal is a Director in CFDRC’s Biomedical and Energy Division. After this he spent seven years at Nitronex Corp. working on design and development of III-V compound semiconductor devices (Gallium Nitride), for high power RF power transistors. The last two years were spent managing a team of engineers and technicians in Reliability and Production Testing. In his current role at CFDRC he manages the technical development and commercialization for a portfolio of biomedical and energy technologies. Most of the development is done in direct collaboration with DoD (Army, Navy, Air Force, DARPA, DTRA, and CBD), DOE, NIH, and NASA agencies. Sameer has been involved in development of CFDRC’s Bio-Battery technology for the last four years including serving as the PI on a current Army Phase III project and a CBD Phase II project. He has six issued patents and an additional eight patents pending.
Dan Squiller joined PowerGenix as CEO in 2003, building on over 25 years experience in high technology companies. Previous to PowerGenix, he was President of Lambda Power, a leading global manufacturer of power supplies and division of Invensys, plc. His prior experience with early stage companies includes Indyme Electronics, where he was general manager and St. Bernard Software, where he was vice president of business development and sales.
