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.

Frank Blohm leads EnerVenue’s manufacturing and operations team. He is a driven and analytical leader who delivers value to organizations by overcoming obstacles and building strategic partnerships. A seasoned global supply chain executive with more than 25 years of experience, Frank brings energy and an innovative approach to manufacturing, operations management and sustainability. Franks holds steadfast in his commitment to excellence by building accomplished teams known within the industry.

Prior to joining EnerVenue, Frank served as Vice President of Global Supply Chain at Infinera Corporation (NASDAQ: INFN), where he managed over a billion dollars in material spend for one of the world’s largest optical networking organizations. While serving as Chief Operating Officer for Velodyne Lidar (NASDAQ: VLDR), Frank was instrumental in driving and scaling a global operations transformation. Frank also served as Executive Vice President of Operations and Supply Chain at Extreme Networks (NASDAQ: EXTR) leading supply chain, IT, business transformation, logistics and customer service.

Frank serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Supply Chain Management (ASCM) Golden Gate Chapter. He received his certification in Supply Chain from San Jose State University.

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). Greensmith became a market leader, gaining 33% market share, in the Battery storage market leveraging their market leading control platform (GEMS).

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 software landscape for Rockwell Software and GE. 

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

Kevin Mukai joined the EnerVenue team in April of 2021 and leads the operations expansions efforts to GW-hr scale and the development of key partnerships for manufacturing. Kevin is a 20+ year veteran of the semiconductor and solar industries focused on automation, scale and factory transformation. He has an extensive background in high volume factory operations and brings expertise to the company in strategic planning, engineering, and sourcing. His passion for the renewables space and high volume manufacturing experience makes him an ideal fit for our team.

Prior to EnerVenue, Kevin was at Juul Labs where he was Sr. Director of Manufacturing Operations and Engineering. Kevin was responsible for the significant manufacturing scale that Juul saw from its product introduction. During Kevin’s tenure, he oversaw expansion of 4 Juul factories through partnerships with major contract manufacturers and automation suppliers, and expansion of existing factories. Prior to Juul, Kevin spent 8 years at SunPower working in operations and engineering where he was responsible for designing and building a factory that achieved world class levels of performance while producing the most advanced Si-solar cells in the world. Kevin held additional operations and engineering managerial roles at Tesla, ThinFilm Electronics, and Applied Materials.

Kevin has dual Masters Degrees in Materials Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering both from University of Michigan, and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Materials Science & Engineering from UC Berkeley. He holds multiple patents in the semiconductor and solar industries.

Chad Spring leads EnerVenue’s business development and commercial activities.  His passion for networking and growing strategic relationships with fossil and renewable energy companies brings broad industry experience and leadership to EnerVenue’s customer-facing team. 
 
Prior to joining EnerVenue, Chad drove regional sales for steam turbine, gas turbine, and generator services and upgrades for Siemens Energy TurboCare, EthosEnergy, and Toshiba America Energy Systems.  More recently Chad managed project sales for key strategic PV and battery storage customers at SMA America.   
 
Chad is a member of Highrise Networking and an active participant in key industry groups and conferences.  He earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University, and is an avid outdoor enthusiast and ultra-distance mountain trail runner.

Vikash Venkataramana leads product management at Enervenue. With a technology and product leadership background, Vikash’s expertise and experience is in commercializing emerging technologies at the interface of science and technology. Vikash comes with a proven track record of introducing new products and technologies both at startups and large organizations.

Prior to Enervenue, Vikash headed the US product and technology teams at Jinko Solar responsible for overseeing more than 8+ GW ($1.8B+ P&L) of Jinko solar product deployed in the US market. During his time at Jinko, US revenues grew 200+% YOY and company was the largest solar module manufacturer by size globally. At Jinko, Vikash also led the definition and introduction of the utility scale energy storage product based on US market requirements. Before Jinko, Vikash was a Senior Product Manager at Hanwha Q Cells, responsible for introducing new products and technologies in the US market. At Q Cells, Vikash worked closely on product strategy driving the evolution of Q cells from a manufacturer to an energy services company in the US market. Before Q Cells, Vikash was the Product Manager for a metal 3D printing startup called Desktop Metal at Boston. This was after working for two different solar power companies (Sunrun and Sunpreme) in the bay area. At Sunrun, he was the Product Manager for the Home Energy Management product (Smart Home) and at Sunpreme he was the Product Manager for a bifacial solar cell-module product. 

Vikash has a master’s degree in Nanoscale Science and Technology from the University of Leeds, UK and a PhD in Applied Physics from the University of St Andrews in the UK. Vikash also has an MBA from University of Texas.