Federico Faggin

BOARD MEMBER AND CO-FOUNDER

Federico Faggin is a well-known technologist and Silicon Valley visionary, and was one of the original designers of the first commercial microprocessor at Intel.

In 2010 he was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by President Obama. He was the co-founder, president and CEO of Synaptics as well as president and CEO of Foveon from 2003 to 2008.

Len Perham

BOARD MEMBER

Len Perham is a successful entrepreneur with more than 30 years of executive leadership and semiconductor industry experience. He retired from Integrated Device Technology in 2000 and served as chairman of the board of NetLogic Microsystems prior to its acquisition by Broadcom in 2012.

From 1991 to 2000, Len served as CEO of Integrated Device Technology (IDT). He has helped incubate several companies under the IDT umbrella, including Galileo Technology (acquired by Marvell Technology), Quantum Effect Devices (acquired by PMC-Sierra), Monolithic System Technology (now MoSys, Inc.), Clear-Logic and Centaur Technology.

Manuel Terranova

CEO, PRESIDENT AND CO-FOUNDER

Peaxy CEO and President Manuel Terranova is a technology veteran with a proven track record of bringing emerging technologies to market. He has a broad range of business and technical leadership experience in oil and gas, subsea equipment, software application development, pipeline inspection robotics, telemetry systems and IT infrastructure.

Before co-founding Peaxy, Manuel was at General Electric’s Drilling and Production business, where he led a $5.2 billion portfolio as Senior Vice President. He managed the company’s commercial and regional resources worldwide, including the creation of a $200 million subsea equipment joint venture in sub-Saharan Africa. During his 13 years at GE, he led a number of successful software development efforts, including a GIS software business, remote pipeline monitoring and SupportCentral, a knowledge-based portal that grew to become the company’s second most used application worldwide. Terranova served as CIO of GE’s Oil & Gas division from 2002 to 2006. In that role he led efforts to migrate the entire business from legacy applications to ERP and a contemporary application stack.

In 2010, the CEO awarded him the Chairman’s Award for Technology and Innovation. That year—as head of GE’s subsea portfolio—he led a series of successful product launches, including a remotely enabled subsea control system that set industry records for market-share gains in a single year.

Since 2013, Manuel has been actively engaged as a committee member for the National Academy of Sciences and the National Transportation Safety Board. His involvement has helped advance the safety of offshore oil and gas operations. View LinkedIn →

Manuel Terranova

CEO, PRESIDENT AND CO-FOUNDER

Peaxy CEO and President Manuel Terranova is a technology veteran with a proven track record of bringing emerging technologies to market. He has a broad range of business and technical leadership experience in oil and gas, subsea equipment, software application development, pipeline inspection robotics, telemetry systems and IT infrastructure.

Before co-founding Peaxy, Manuel was at General Electric’s Drilling and Production business, where he led a $5.2 billion portfolio as Senior Vice President. He managed the company’s commercial and regional resources worldwide, including the creation of a $200 million subsea equipment joint venture in sub-Saharan Africa. During his 13 years at GE, he led a number of successful software development efforts, including a GIS software business, remote pipeline monitoring and SupportCentral, a knowledge-based portal that grew to become the company’s second most used application worldwide. Terranova served as CIO of GE’s Oil & Gas division from 2002 to 2006. In that role he led efforts to migrate the entire business from legacy applications to ERP and a contemporary application stack.

In 2010, the CEO awarded him the Chairman’s Award for Technology and Innovation. That year—as head of GE’s subsea portfolio—he led a series of successful product launches, including a remotely enabled subsea control system that set industry records for market-share gains in a single year.

Since 2013, Manuel has been actively engaged as a committee member for the National Academy of Sciences and the National Transportation Safety Board. His involvement has helped advance the safety of offshore oil and gas operations. View LinkedIn →

Ashok Ganesan

DIRECTOR, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Ashok has over 25 years of experience in software development with expertise in building and bringing products to market for startups (Peaxy, MaxiScale, Attune) and enterprise companies (Cisco, Ciena, HP). Since 2012, Ashok has led product development at Peaxy, helping to bring multiple products to market. Ashok holds a BS degree in computer science engineering and a Product Management executive program certificate from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.

John Ervin, PhD

CHIEF SCIENTIST

John has devoted his career to the commercialization of novel technologies and tools in the life science and data science sectors. His focus on bringing nascent technologies to market has made him a key part of growing customer bases from nothing to over 40 in multiple contexts. John has held management roles with Eksigent Technologies (acquired by AB/Sciex), PerSeptive Biosystems (acquired by AB), Silicon Kinetics where he is a founder and his current Chief Scientist role at Peaxy. He holds a BS from Cornell University, and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Illinois. View LinkedIn →

Joshua Gallagher

SENIOR DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Joshua has 20 years of experience managing software teams in both startups and enterprise companies, and has delivered products to satisfy the data access requirements of several key verticals including heavy industry, Internet services and analytics, life sciences, CAD/CAM engineering, and film/entertainment. Joshua has a proven track record of delivering software projects on time with excellent quality, and is a passionate customer advocate, engaging with clients before and after sales in order to ensure their satisfaction. Joshua is an expert in networking and storage technologies with solutions deployed on-premises and in the cloud. View LinkedIn →

Lorrie Broderick

INVESTOR RELATIONS

Lorrie brings over 30 years of operations and project management experience to Peaxy. For several years she directed office and project management operations at Peaxy, and now primarily manages investor relations. She was one of Peaxy’s first employees when it was founded in 2012.

Melinda Sheehan

DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS

Melinda has over 30 years of experience working in marketing, sales, advertising and HR/operations. A graduate of Saint Mary’s College, Melinda holds a BA in Business Management and a Master’s in Management, Operations, and Business Administration.

Nigel Stolting

DIRECTOR, SERVICES AND SOLUTIONS

Nigel Stolting is a twenty-year veteran specializing in data access and communication technologies. Nigel joined Peaxy in October 2012 as a Software QA engineer and was responsible for developing several features in relation to data ingestion and data longevity for the Peaxy data platform. In 2015, Nigel became Director of the Software QA team, and in 2018, became Director of Services and Solutions, where he continues to help Peaxy customers find tailored solutions to unique data problems.

Prior to joining Peaxy, Nigel managed the US-based Software QA team for BlueArc (later acquired by Hitachi Data Systems), and spent two years working for Thales Defense UK. Nigel holds a BS degree in Information and Communications from Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. View LinkedIn →

Stefan Geens

DIRECTOR, PRODUCT DESIGN

For over two decades, Stefan has focused on user-centric design and communication. He co-founded the Swedish design agency Äventyret, where he helped major institutions develop digital product strategies. Working for the Swedish foreign ministry, Stefan developed and implemented the national digital strategies for public diplomacy in China and the Middle East, and helped design Sweden’s current brand identity. Stefan’s user interface design experience covers data visualization projects, augmented reality and virtual reality. Stefan holds an MA in International Affairs and Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. View LinkedIn →

Todd Beine

VICE PRESIDENT, PROGRAMS

Todd brings over 20 years of experience in technical product development, with management roles in both product management and engineering. He came to Peaxy from CloudShield, and prior to that from Ciena Communications, where he managed the metro optical transport, network management, and network planning and design product lines. Todd previously led product management for ONI Systems, an optical networking startup acquired by Ciena. Todd began his career at Nortel Networks. Todd holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and an MS degree in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University. View LinkedIn →

Mas Fukumoto

Chief Commercial Officer

Mas Fukumoto is a growth-focused global commercial leader with over three decades of power industry experience in leadership positions at GE and Samsung in the U.S.A., Asia, Middle East and Europe, and involved with lithium-ion batteries and energy storage since 2010. His roles have spanned across battery, energy storage system, renewables and conventional power technologies. Most recently, he was Samsung SDI’s Senior Vice President of Energy Storage Systems for the Americas. Mas holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University, and completed multiple GE leadership programs and Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management’s Corporate Strategy Program.

Antonio Montomoli

DIRECTOR, PEAXY EUROPE SRL

Antonio has more than 25 years of professional experience in the information technology and digital transformation sectors of industrial, energy, retail and digital service companies. He spent over 15 years as a CIO at General Electric company (GE) as divisional Chief Information Officer in the Energy/Oil & Gas sector leading digital programs worldwide and global teams. Antonio spent 10 years at Pactera/Centific, where he built new capabilities in Europe leading Sales and Delivery efforts with a focus on extracting value from business data through analytics and Business Intelligence solutions. He is a certified Six Sigma Quality “Master Black Belt” with significant experience leading Lean Quality programs, as well as an experienced underwater sports fishing instructor.

Blake Rector

Blake Rector has extensive experience applying mathematical optimization to energy storage solutions. His models have been used to manage utility-scale assets in energy markets, and have been applied to stand-alone storage, solar storage, and behind-the-meter resources.

Blake has worked at Powin Energy since 2016. Currently, as Principal, Markets & Optimization, his work is focused on battery cell-level analytics and directly connecting battery systems with economic optimization. Prior to that, he conducted wholesale electricity market analytics, resource valuation, and revenue forecasting with a focus on energy storage and renewables at Energy GPS LLC. Blake holds a Ph.D. in mathematical science from Portland State University.

Vice Adm. Bruce Grooms, Ret.

Bruce Grooms retired from the U.S. Navy as Vice Admiral after a distinguished leadership career spanning 35 years. As his last duty assignment, Mr. Grooms served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Capability Development at Allied Command Transformation. Among other accomplishments, he has served as Commander of Submarine Group TWO and Vice Director of the Joint Staff.

Most recently, Mr. Grooms served as Raytheon’s Vice President of U.S. Business Development for Navy and Marine Corps Programs. He holds a B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and earned a master’s degree with distinction from the Naval War College, and later served as National Security Fellow at Stanford University.

Dave Summa

Dave Summa is a consultant and executive coach with expertise in consultative selling and corporate development. Dave spent 12 years as CEO for science-based startups Mendel, Acumen and Kinestral, and prior to that spent 10 years in consulting with McKinsey and Technology Pathfinders. Dave’s leadership experience and expertise with startups has enabled him to be a catalyst for growth in the life science, material science and clean tech industries. He has been advising Peaxy since 2016.

Jim Rodman

Rear Admiral Jim Rodman, USN (ret) is an engineer and an attorney. From 2011 to 2014 he served as the Chief Engineer of Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR, formerly SPAWAR), San Diego, CA, leading NAVWAR’s worldwide engineering workforce in the design, development, deployment, and sustainment of the Navy’s C5ISR, Enterprise Information, and Space Systems. Before NAVWAR he served in various assignments in fleet maintenance, ship and weapons systems, and space and network systems acquisition and operations. He commanded three Navy Reserve units and served as the Vice Commander of the Navy Net Centric Warfare Group. He is the Chief Executive Officer of XSITE LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business providing systems engineering and integration services to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community.

He is a graduate of West Virginia University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering. He also earned his Juris Doctor from the Villanova University School of Law and his Master’s in Technology Management from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and serves on the Board of Advisors of two technology companies.

Gary Leonard

Gary Leonard spent 34 years at GE and led its $3 billion Distributed Power Gas Turbine business from 2013 to 2016. He brings deep expertise in research, engineering, product management and development, and power plant design. Leonard led a global team of 400 engineers focused on developing GE’s next generation of aircraft engines, gas turbines, diesel engines, wind turbines and solar/geothermal thermal products. He has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.

Milton Venetos

Milton Venetos has more than 20 years of energy industry experience and a deep understanding of power generation technologies with direct experience in combined cycle, coal, IGCC, oil & gas, renewable, nuclear and advanced energy systems. He has worked in a variety of capacities from equipment design and selection, to on-site troubleshooting, to plant modeling and optimization. He has trained hundreds of engineers around the world to use GateCycle and consulted on the design, development and operation of dozens of power plants using the EBSILON®Professional and GateCycle heat balance software packages. Milton holds an MSME from Stanford University.

Tracy Moore

Tracy has 35 years’ experience in global energy and aviation businesses spanning F50, PE backed and start-up companies. At GE she was responsible for their $400M Hydro business based in Oslo, Norway and at Landis+Gyr she led their smart metering SaaS business serving North American utilities.

Most recently Tracy has led several start-ups that leverage machine learning in aviation, e-discovery, and impairment detection. She is currently co-President of Georgians United, a non-profit focused on electoral innovation. Tracy has a degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University.

Emilio Ghiani

Emilio Ghiani is  a part-time Associate Professor of power systems at the University of Cagliari, where he teaches power generation, control and electricity markets for electrical and energy engineering students.

He has more than 20 years of experience in design and planning and management of systems for electric power generation, transmission, and distribution. His research focuses mainly on the development of methodologies and tools for decision making processes in planning and operation of power distribution networks with large penetration of distributed energy resources.

His research interests include all aspects related to network integration and control of renewable generation with smart grid operation, such as energy communities and microgrids. He has published more than 100 papers in international journals, presented at various conferences, and contributed to eight book chapters dealing with smart grids.