EnerVenue builds simple, safe, maintenance-free energy storage for the clean energy revolution – based on technology proven over decades in extreme conditions, now scaled for large renewable energy integration applications.  
 
Previously, Jorg led strategy, sales and operations for Primus Power, a disruptive long-duration energy storage provider.  He led SunPower’s global power plant business unit ($1.5B+ P&L) and several other transformational leadership roles.  Jorg’s teams built over 2000+ MW of solar power plants, SunPower’s primary profit driver at that time and achieved over 60% reduction in cost reductions while driving major improvements in business development, sales, engineering, procurement, construction, operations, customer service and support.

Before joining SunPower, Jorg served as an Executive Partner and practice leader at Accenture where he was instrumental in driving large scale system integration and business process change programs for prominent high-tech companies including Apple, Autodesk, Cadence, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Intuit, and Sun Microsystems.  Jorg began his career developing custom capital markets trading systems based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Jorg is passionate about changing the way our world is powered, customer focus, effective teamwork, and delivering results.

Professor Cui leads a research lab at Stanford University which is focused on materials innovations for sustainability including nanomaterials, energy, electrochemistry, batteries, solar cells, transparent electrodes, electrocatalysis, 2D layered materials, topological insulators, water filtration, air filtration, solid clean up, wearable technology, nanobiotechnology.

Professor Cui is widely recognized as one of the most influential Materials Science researchers globally. He has published nearly 500 research papers and was ranked NO.1 in Materials Science by Thomson Reuters as “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” in 2014, as well as other awards including:  the Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience (2020), Nano Today Award (2020), Electrochemical Society Battery Technology Award (2019), Blavatnik National Laureate (2017), MRS Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience (2015), the Sloan Research Fellowship (2010), KAUST Investigator Award (2008), ONR Young Investigator Award (2008), Technology Review World Top Young Innovator Award (2004).

Cui has founded multiple companies to commercialize technologies from his group including: Amprius Inc., 4C Air Inc. and EEnotech, Inc.  In 2020 EEnotech launched EnerVenue as a spinout for which Prof. Cui serves as Chairman and Chief Technology Advisor.

Professor Cui received B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), a Ph.D at Harvard University and a Miller Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of California, Berkeley.

Majid Keshavarz leads EnerVenue’s product development team.   He has over 20 years of renewable energy storage technology leadership experience.  Previously, Dr. Keshavarz led R&D at Natron Energy, a startup based in the San Francisco Bay area that is developing a new sodium-ion battery technology.  He was the Chief Technology Officer with Imergy Power Systems. 
 
Dr. Keshavarz has extensive experience in the technical and managerial oversight of research and development activities and technology commercialization in electrochemical energy storage and material science. He was responsible for Imergy’s core vanadium flow battery technology and for designing platforms for applications requiring long discharge duration and frequent cycling.  Prior to Imergy Power (Deeya Energy), he worked on the experimental strategies for high-throughput materials development for semiconductor industry at Intermolecular Inc. An early employee of UltraDots Inc., he was responsible for development of silicon and germanium nanomaterials for photonic and photovoltaic devices. Prior to UltraDots, he spent five years at Roche Bioscience (Roche Holding), where he worked on the development and optimization of efficient routes for new drug candidates and prepared active pharmaceutical ingredients on a large scale for clinical studies. 
 
Majid obtained his Ph.D. in chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. For his postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids at University of California at Santa Barbara, he studied the chemistry of exotic materials such as Buckminsterfullerene, C60 and conducting polymers.  He has authored numerous scientific publications and US patents.

Steffen Pietzke is the Chief Financial Officer at EnerVenue, where he leads the company’s financial activities, including business planning, budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management.

Pietzke boasts more than 20 years of experience guiding public and private technology, life science and transportation companies across the U.S., Europe and Asia.
Pietzke joined EnerVenue from Enovix Corporation, where he served as the Chief Financial Officer and was instrumental in transitioning the company from a R&D entity to a publicly listed, commercial business. Under his guidance, Enovix was added to the Russell indexes less than one year following its public debut. Prior to Enovix, Pietzke was Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer at ALX Oncology Holdings Inc., where he managed all facets of corporate accounting and finance. Prior to ALX Oncology, Pietzke was Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer at Tricida, Inc.

Among his accomplishments, Pietzke has successfully managed finance organizations during numerous public offerings, raising over $2 billion in proceeds. He spent the first fifteen years of his career at Ernst & Young LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Pietzke earned his undergraduate degree in Accounting at the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences in Offenburg, Germany.

Randy Selesky leads EnerVenue’s commercial, sales, and product management teams.  Randy brings over 25 years of leadership experience from both start-ups, as well as Fortune 500 companies.
 
Most recently, Randy was a pioneer in the Battery Storage market as the SVP of Global Sales & Marketing for Greensmith Energy Management Systems (Battery Storage provider).  With his passion for emerging technology Randy worked with Utilities and Developers to drive adoption of Battery Storage solutions. 

Prior to Greensmith, Randy served as the Senior Executive for Rockwell Automation, leading the Power and Energy Initiative. He was also instrumental in transforming the energy software landscape for Rockwell Software and GE. 

Randy has been relentless in a bringing new solutions to market that are safe, reliable, cost effective, and will change how the world receives resilient energy.

Andrzej leads the development of EnerVenue’s energy storage systems.  He has 25+ years of experience designing and commercializing technology products. Prior to EnerVenue, Andrzej developed Stem’s first lithium-ion stationary energy storage and power monitoring systems.
 
Andrzej also brings experience from innovative renewable companies such as GreenVolts and Nanosolar.  At GreenVolts, he served as Director of Engineering and oversaw the development of the power generating module and a precision tracker, as well as scaling production at Foxconn.  As Director of Product Development at Nanosolar he oversaw the development and deployment of the company’s first commercial thin film PV panels.
 
He also spent 9 years at IDEO – a multinational design and consulting firm, where he managed over 25 projects across consumer, medical and automotive industries. He earned a B.S. and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.