Our Team
Lonnie Garris III (Founder & CEO)
Lonnie is a retired United States Air Force colonel. He has extensive experience leading expeditionary military operations in austere locations and managing intelligence collection activities. He was previously the chief information officer for a small technology startup company. He earned an MBA from Webster University and is a graduate of the Yale School of Management.
Dr. Nicholas Anderson (CTO)
Dr. Anderson leads experimentation at the Cool Amps presence located at the Washington Clean Energy Testbed (associated with the University of Washington). Dr. Anderson received his PhD as an NSF graduate research fellow at Columbia University, New York. He has 5 + years with startup companies doing R&D work to include lab-scale prototyping and pilot manufacturing.
Shruti Modi Gupta (Director of Sustainability)
Shruti has over 20 years experience in technology development and business strategy focusing on fuel cells, hydrogen, batteries and solar energy. She is an expert in electrochemistry with several patents and publications. Shruti earned a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering and Management.
Dr. Thomas Madden (Founder & COO)
Dr. Madden has extensive experience in chemical battery technology. He is a recognized expert in multiple battery chemistry solutions and holds over 40 patents. Dr. Madden has held several CTO positions for companies in the lithium-ion battery space. He earned a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Washington and received executive education from the Yale School of Management.
Duwayno Robertson (Founder & Technical Advisor)
Duwayno has had an extensive career covering 28 years with both, Fortune 500 and startup companies. His engineering experience has dealt heavily with the transportation and conversion of energy. Having begun his career working on some of the automotive industry’s first electric vehicle systems, he has worked with a wide range of energy storage systems.
Joe Transue (Director of Manufacturing)
Joe has extensive experience in renewable energy and power systems. Joe has conducted fabrication and testing of various batteries to include aqueous sodium battery cells. Joe has served as a shop manager at the MakerSpaceCT and is expert on manufacturing and de-manufacturing processes. Joe is a graduate of the International Yacht Restoration School.