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.

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.

With more than 30 years of experience in financial management roles, Betsy most recently served as the CFO for Iron Mountain Data Centers, where she was instrumental in the company’s sustainability and 100% renewable energy path. Prior to Iron Mountain, Betsy held various executive finance positions in the energy sector, including at 8minute Solar Energy and First Solar (FSLR). Betsy joined the team at 8minute to enable and secure its Series A funding and to further drive the company to deliver the lowest cost energy solutions available. At First Solar, Betsy was financially responsible for the company’s operating segments, including global manufacturing and supply chain, systems development and EPC, and O&M. Betsy’s teams delivered transformational cost reductions in excess of 55%, in addition to scalability gains that enabled First Solar to reinvent itself from an early technology player to a full-scale industrial energy company, on par with lowest cost solutions at utility grid scale.

Before joining First Solar, Betsy was the VP, Corporate Controller for GrafTech International, a leading global manufacturer of advanced carbon and graphite materials. Previously, she spent a decade at GE, where she held progressively senior finance leadership roles across the consumer and industrial units. Betsy is committed to the green energy transition, which has quickly emerged as the driving force disruptor of the century.

Dr. Kim Gupta is EnerVenue’s Chief Supply Officer and leads all facets of the company’s supply chain management and operations, including materials procurement and logistics.

Gupta joins EnerVenue from Bloom Energy, a leading worldwide manufacturer of solid-oxide fuel cells for the distributed generation of electricity and hydrogen. For the past 11 years, he served as Vice President of Strategic Sourcing for the San Jose-headquartered firm. Gupta was instrumental in developing and expanding Bloom Energy’s global supply base, leading a team that transformed the company away from being supply-constrained. During his tenure, he also cut the materials costs for Bloom’s fuel cell system by more than 50% and worked with a worldwide network of suppliers enabling $100M+ investments to feed Bloom’s supply requirements.

Prior to Bloom, Gupta spent two decades at Intel, where he managed a critical supply line for the company’s manufacturing sites. He holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Stanford University and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Rob Willy leads manufacturing operations and optimization at EnerVenue’s new gigafactory in Shelby County, Kentucky.
Prior to Enervenue, Willy served as the Vice President of Manufacturing at Fortna, where he led three manufacturing sites that built high-volume capital equipment to enable industry-wide expansion of e-commerce and intralogistics networks.

Willy possesses more than 20 years of leadership experience at General Electric Appliances. He headed the company’s Advanced Manufacturing Engineering team and served as Plant Manager across several U.S. factories. Among his accomplishments at GE Appliances, Willy was instrumental in rebuilding manufacturing capabilities that enabled significant business growth and created jobs for U.S.-based workers.

In the plants he has led, Rob has launched the Toyota Production System and employed Lean problem-solving methodology to drive next-level productivity gains, operational efficiency, and world-class quality.  He was an early adopter of Industry 4.0 to enable real-time problem-solving through shop floor visualization and automation.

Willy holds a B.S. in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Ohio University.

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.