Cell-Level BMS™

Improving the safety, energy throughput and lifetime of large lithium-ion battery packs

ELEMENT ENERGY

What We Do

Element Energy’s Cell-Level BMS (CLB) utilizes adaptive cell-learning algorithms to improve the safety, energy throughput and lifetime of large lithium-ion battery packs. We aim to make grid-tied energy storage safer and more dependable, with levelized cost of storage up to 50% lower than is possible with conventional battery management systems (BMS).

More Energy Throughput

Battery packs with conventional BMS are limited by the weakest cell. CLB fully utilizes each cell’s available capacity, providing the full runtime and total energy capability of the pack. This advantage only grows with time as the cells in packs with conventional BMS age differentially.

Enhanced Lifetime

Our cell management algorithms iteratively monitor, model and manage the operation of each cell in the pack independently, reducing wear and extending the life of each cell and the entire pack.

Improved Safety

Weak or failed cells are isolated while the pack continues to operate. Fault response is up to 100x faster than conventional BMS, providing a quicker and safer resolution to prevent cascading failures.

Team

Who We are

Our Management Team has decades of experience in lithium-ion battery R&D, battery energy storage systems, renewables, AI, software, hardware and semiconductors, a long track record of execution and passion and commitment to renewables.

The Team

Anthony Stratakos, Ph.D.

CEO

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Seth Kahn

COO

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Rainer Fasching, Ph.D

CSO

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Yves Saw, Ph.D.

CTO

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Rob Koch

Senior VP of Business Development

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Board of Directors

Anthony Stratakos, Ph.D.

CEO

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Seth Kahn

COO

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Robert McIntyre

LG Tech Ventures

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Kevin Compton

Radar Partners

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Investors

The company is well-funded by strategic and venture capital investors.

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Locations

Menlo Park, CA

Pangyo, South Korea

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Dr. Anthony Stratakos

President and CEO

Dr. Anthony Stratakos is Element Energy’s co-founder and serves as President and CEO.  He has a long history of technology leadership, having served as a CTO in the semiconductor industry with emphasis on power efficiency and renewables for nearly 25 years.  He has had consistent success leading the development of new technologies, new products and new markets.  He founded Volterra Semiconductor, a power management semiconductor company, in 1996 where he served as SVP and CTO with responsibility for technology development and new business incubation.  Volterra went public in 2004 and was traded on NASDAQ until it was acquired by Maxim Integrated in 2013.  Dr. Stratakos then served as SVP and CTO at Maxim where he had a hand in the company’s major business and technology transformation, which more than doubled its stock price and created billions of dollars in shareholder value.  Dr. Stratakos earned BSEE and MSEE degrees from The Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.  He is passionate about technology and the environment and thrilled to be working at the intersection of the two with a talented and focused team.

Seth Kahn

COO

Seth Kahn is a co-founder and COO of Element Energy, responsible for engineering, operations and business development. Seth earned a BS in Biomedical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University and a MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.  The earlier part of Seth’s career was dedicated to the field of power management, leading Volterra Semiconductor’s global design engineering teams in the development of innovative power conversion chips for the enterprise, communications and mobile markets. In 2013, Seth shifted his focus to the renewable energy sector, serving as Executive Director of Solar Products at Maxim Integrated. In this role, Seth developed extensive technical and market experience in the renewable energy space and built international manufacturing and supply chain partnerships. Seth is excited to continue his work in renewables and ultimately to see Element Energy accelerate the onset of the energy revolution.

Dr. Rainer Fasching

CSO

Dr. Rainer Fasching is an Element Energy co-founder and serves as Chief Scientific Officer. Dr. Fasching is a Consulting Professor at Stanford University, and has served as VP of R&D for two lithium-ion battery companies. He is considered an expert in the field, has extensively published and is a prolific inventor with over fifty patents.

Dr. Yves Saw

CTO

Dr. Yves Saw serves as Element Energy’s CTO, with responsibility for software and systems, and as President of Element Energy Korea.  He brings thirty years of R&D experience in software, artificial neural networks and battery energy storage systems.  Prior to joining Element, Dr. Saw served as Vice President of BMS and System Engineering at LG Chem, the world’s largest battery manufacturer and ESS provider.  At LG Chem, he was responsible for BESS system architecture and software and launched a variety of BESS products for grid-scale, residential and data center applications. He also represented LG Chem on the Korean government BESS safety working group.  Before LG Chem, Dr. Saw served as Vice President of LG Electronics for six years in mobile software R&D. Dr. Saw received a PhD degree from the University of Edinburgh and MSc and BSc degrees from Sogang University, Korea. He has enjoyed success through multi-national and multi-cultural collaboration and directs his passion to pioneering new technologies to solve environmental challenges.

Rob Koch

Senior VP of Business Development

Rob is a versatile business executive who joined Element Energy in summer 2021 to lead the company’s commercialization efforts. He has significant experience with early stage energy and technology companies as a founder, operator, board member, and investor. Prior joining Element, Rob was the SVP Business Development at Nextracker where he led the positioning and commercialization of TrueCapture, an AI-based software platform that optimizes the energy output from distributed single axis trackers. This technology, which was acquired from BrightBox Technologies, a company that he co-founded and sold to Nextracker, has since been deployed in over 10 GW of utility-scale solar plants. From 2007-2010, Rob was a general partner of NGEN, a $500M early stage VC focused on sustainable cleantech companies including energy efficiency, EV’s, water treatment, carbon sequestration, and novel solar technologies. He has a degree in chemical engineering from Vanderbilt and over the years, has invested in and/or advised numerous energy companies including Solaria, Terabase, Sensehawk, PVEL, and SolarAccess, a residential solar fund.

Robert McIntyre

LG Tech Ventures

Mr. McIntyre has over twenty years of experience as an investor, entrepreneur, and advisor with technology start-up companies in Silicon Valley. As an investor, Mr. McIntyre served as a Partner at CMEA Ventures ($1b AUM) and an associate at H.I.G. Capital ($30b AUM) where he led many successful investments including Intermolecular (IPO), Schooner (acquired by Sandisk), Ageia (acquired by Nvidia), Visyx (acquired by Measurement Specialties), Lvl7 Systems (acquired by Broadcom), and Mojo Networks (acquired by Arista Networks). As an entrepreneur, Mr. McIntyre has served as a business development executive at several start-up companies including NextBio (acquired by Illumina), TeselaGen Biotechnology, and AirWave Wireless (acquired by Hewlett-Packard). Mr. McIntyre holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an MBA from the Wharton School, where he was a Palmer Scholar.

Kevin Compton

Radar Partners

Before co‐founding Radar Partners, an early stage venture capital partnership, Kevin was a General Partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's most successful high technology venture capital firms for almost twenty years. Kevin and his partners invested in many of the most powerful and high profile start‐ups over the past 30 years, including Google, Intuit, VeriSign, Genentech, Citrix Systems, Netscape Communications, Amazon.com and Juniper Networks. Kevin has been featured in many technology publications, has been profiled in Fortune, Forbes and Inc. Magazine, and has been ranked as one of the top Venture Capitalists in the world over the last decade. The Forbes "Midas Touch" ranking of top investors has named Kevin as one of the top private investors in the world on numerous occasions ranking him in the top ten three times. Outside of work Kevin enjoys family time, playing hockey and working with youth sports. His passion for sports extends into the professional sports arena as well. Kevin was the co‐owner of the National Hockey League San Jose Sharks, the American Hockey League Worcester Sharks, and Sharks Sports & Entertainment from 2001‐2012.