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Dr. Jennifer Gerbi
Acting Director & Deputy Director for Technology
Lara Pierpoint
Director of Climate
Phil Larochelle
Investment Principal on technical team at Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Anil Achyuta
investment director and founding member of TDK Ventures
Aimee Rose
Manging Director - Activate
Dr. Clea Kolster
Partner and the Head of Science at Lowercarbon Capital
Francesco M Benedetti
CEO and Co-Founder of Osmoses, and 2021 Activate Fellow
Dr. Michael Campos
Associate at Prime Impact Fund
Hara Wang
Climate tech innovator and practitioner
Linda Jing
Co-founder of Volta Foundation. Engineer working on battery R&D who graduated from MIT.
Yen T. Yeh
President of the Volta Foundation, Editor-in-Chief at BatteryBits.org
Tim Holme
QuantumScape’s Chief Technology Officer
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