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This list showcases the top California based CEO’ operating in the Nanotechnology space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Christopher Pickett
CEO & Board Member of DigiLens
Christopher Pickett is the President & CEO & Board Director of Pelican Imaging. Pickett is a seasoned Senior Executive and Business Strategist in both private and public company environments. During his more than 20 years of experience, Chris has helped to drive adoption and create financial success for companies with technologies spanning semiconductor packaging, camera modules, LCD displays, general lighting, cryptography, and memory systems. Most recently, Chris was the senior vice president of corporate licensing for Rambus – joining Rambus as part of the acquisition of Global Lighting Technologies where he was the President of the licensing division. At Rambus, he was responsible for global technology and patent licensing and helped grow Rambus’ aggregate revenue more than 50% during his two and a half year tenure. At Global Lighting Technologies, Chris developed the licensing, marketing and revenue plan resulting in acquisition by Rambus and market adoption of its technology by General Electric, Cooper Industries and others, as well as a broad array of contract manufacturers that act as a vibrant partner ecosystem. Before Global Lighting Technologies, Chris was the Executive Vice President of licensing at Tessera Technologies, bringing the company from start up phase to a successful mid-cap public company. During his 13 year tenure, Tessera achieved compound revenue and operating profit growth exceeding 50% annually which led to Tessera being cited in 2006 by Business Week as the Second Hottest Growth Company in America and by Electronic Business as the 4th Best Small Electronics Company in the US, also in 2006. He is the inventor on nine issued US patents. Chris has a JD from the University of San Francisco School of Law. BSEE from the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
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About DigiLens: DigiLens is an innovator in holographic waveguide display technology for extended reality (XR).
Gene Berdichevsky
CEO & Co-Founder of Sila Nanotechnologies
Gene Berdichevsky is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sila Nanotechnologies. Prior to co-founding Sila, Gene was the seventh employee at Tesla Motors where he served as Principal Engineer on the Roadster battery, leading the development of the world’s first, safe, mass-produced, automotive lithium-ion battery system. Gene holds two degrees from Stanford University; an MS in Engineering with a focus on energy and materials, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering. He has co-authored 42 patents and 4 academic publications. Gene has been named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list, the MIT Technology Review 35 Under 35, and was a recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.
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About Sila Nanotechnologies: Sila Nanotechnologies is a provider and manufacturer of higher energy density lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.
Christopher Anzalone
President & CEO of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals
President & CEO at Arrowhead Research.Dr. Christopher Anzalone has been President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Company since December 1, 2007. In 2005, Dr. Anzalone formed and served as CEO of the Benet Group LLC, a private equity firm focused on creating and building new nano-biotechnology companies from university-generated science. Prior to his tenure at the Benet Group, he was a partner at the Washington, DC-based private equity firm Galway Partners, LLC, where he was responsible for sourcing, structuring, and building new business ventures. Prior to Galway, Dr. Anzalone was an NIH-supported post doctoral fellow in Reproductive Endocrinology at the Smithsonian Institution’s Conservation and Research Center. Dr. Anzalone holds a Ph.D. in Biology from UCLA and a B.A. in Government from Lawrence University.
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About Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Galway Partners: Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that focuses on the development of medicine to treat diseases with a genetic origin.
Vivian Qu
CEO & Founder of ViaeX
Vivian Qu is a dedicated professional operating within the material science and biotech venture space in Silicon Valley. She is the CPO at ORA Nano Mask, and she founded ViaeX Technologies, Inc. in 2016 to contribute to the advancement of our society through sustainable technological developments. For her work across her career, Vivian Qu has earned recognition as the recipient of the Dow Chemical SISCA Award, the Clinton Global Initiative Award, and the Fung Fellowship. Additionally, she received the NSF Innovation Corp Grant and the Big Ideas Berkeley – Energy and Alternative Resources Prize. Vivian was also recognized in the Pulse by Business Insider for her work as a graduate from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Tidal Vision, ViaeX: ViaeX creates biological nanofiltration systems for water and air which are 400% more efficient than current solutions.
Anatoly Chubais
CEO & Founder of RUSNANO
Anatoly Chubais is the CEO & Founder of RUSNANO.
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About RUSNANO: Rusnano is a joint-stock company aimed at commercializing developments in the nanotechnology industry.
Kang Sun
Chief Executive Officer of Amprius
Kang Sun, Ph.D. serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Amprius Inc. Kang Sun is a Venture Partner at WI Harper Group. He has over 20 years business creation and management experience in various industries and also has experience in developing businesses and building strategic alliances worldwide and also in capital investment and enterprise management. Kang Sun has led business at Fortune 500 companies as well as startup ventures. He founded RayTracker, Inc. and served as its Chief Executive Officer since March 2009. Kang Sun served as Chief Operating Officer and President of JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (alternatively JA Solar Ltd) from September 2007 to August 2008. He served as a Managing Director of New Business Development and Chief Strategy Officer of new business and new product group at Applied Materials Inc. since 2005. From 2002 to 2005, Kang Sun served as the President and Vice President of Business Development of Microfabrica Inc. Before joining Microfabrica, he was responsible for business development and marketing at a semiconductor technology startup FlexICs. Kang Sun served as a Vice President of New Venture Business at Honeywell, General Manager of Optical Devices Business at AlliedSignal and Vice President of New Business and Technology at Oce Group, where he developed and executed financing, licensing, partnership, joint venture and acquisition deals. He also held senior management and engineering positions with Polaroid and IBM. Kang Sun served as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Index Capital Group in the U.S., since 2002. He founded and served as President of Index Technologies Inc. Kang Sun served as the Vice President at Microfabrica, Inc.
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About Amprius, Index Capital, RayTracker, WI Harper Group: Amprius develops an anode out of silicon nanowires for lithium-ion batteries.
Tom Afzal
Chief Executive Officer of Novum Medical
Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Novum Medical, Inc.
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About Neuroventis, Novum Medical: Novum Medical develops biocompatible materials with broad applications for musculoskeletal clinical practices.
Andre Watson
Founder, CEO & Chairman of Ligandal
Founder at Ligandal
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About Ligandal: Ligandal is creating cell-specific delivery systems for gene editing tools such as CRISPR using automation and peptide-based nanoparticles.
Sundip Doshi
Founder & CEO of AerNos, Inc.
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About AerNos, Inc.: Develops application specific nano gas sensors based on its breakthrough and proprietary AerN2S Technology to detect harmful gases.
Anil Narasimha
Founder & CEO of Mekonos
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About Mekonos: Mekonos creates a proprietary cell-engineering platform designed for cell therapies on a chip.
Ravi Srinivasan
Founder & CEO of Onconano Medicine
Ravi Srinivasan is the founder and CEO at Onconano Medicine.
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About Cage Bio, Onconano Medicine: OncoNano Medicine is a biotech company that develops pH-activated compounds that digitalize and exploit the variability of pH in disease.
Timur Bazhirov
Founder / CEO of Mat3ra.com
Founder / CEO at Exabyte.io.
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About Mat3ra.com: Mat3ra.com powers the adoption of materials modeling to design and discover advanced materials and chemicals from the nanoscale.
Nicholas Dyner
CEO of Moleaer
Nicholas Dyner joined Moleaer as Chief Executive Officer in 2017 and brought with him over 13 years of experience in water treatment. Prior to Moleaer, Nicholas led the global sales and marketing efforts of LG Chem Water Solutions, established by Korean chemical giant LG Chem when they acquired the membrane manufacturer, NanoH2O, where he served as the company’s Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing. He also previously held the role of Global Product Manager for GE Water & Process Technologies. Nicholas is a graduate from Cornell University in New York, USA. He is a graduate of GE’s Experienced Commercial Leadership Program and Six Sigma BB certified. Mr. Dyner is a graduate from Cornell University with a BS in Economics and a BA in History.
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About Moleaer, NanoH2O: Moleaer™ (Latin for tiny air), a Los Angeles-based company, develops industrial scale nanobubble systems.
Aihua Fu
President & CEO of Nvigen
Aihua Fu is a Co-Founder and CEO of NVIGEN Inc. She is a nanobiotechnologist and an entrepreneur with over 12 years’ experience in developing nanoparticles for biomedical applications. Aihua holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from University of California at Berkeley in the research group of Dr. A. Paul Alivisatos. Aihua has a M.S. degree from Rutgers University and a B.S. degree from Beijing University of Chemical Technology. Aihua’s postdoctoral research at Stanford University was supervised by Prof. Shan X. Wang and Prof. Sam S. Gambhir to engineer nanoparticles with enhanced properties for in vitro diagnostics and in vivo cancer imaging and drug delivery applications. Aihua has won many awards and honors including Dow Chemical Award, Du Pont Award, the Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award and the NIH Pathway to Independence Award.
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About Nvigen: NVIGEN is a nanobiotechnology company revolutionizing the field of multifunctional nanoparticles for biomedical applications.
Charles Schaper
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Transfer Devices
Charles D. Schaper, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, has raised for TDIheadshot2 Series A and Series B preferred stock financings, as well as project-based financing. He developed the founding technology for TDI comprised of novel nanolithography processes, materials, and applications as a Senior Research Scientist of Stanford University, which has been granted approximately twenty international patents associated with this technology platform. His Ph.D. is in chemical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Schaper was also a principal investigator with DARPA and the National Science Foundation.
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About Transfer Devices: Transfer Devices (TDI) was founded in 2004 to commercialize research in molecular transfer lithography.
Virginia Klausmeier
President & CEO of Sylvatex Inc
Virginia founded SVX and has been President and CEO since 2012.
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About Sylvatex Inc: Sylvatex has developed a next generation cathode active material manufacturing process for electric vehicles and energy storage that lowers cost, capital, and carbon footprint.
Mark Peterman
CEO & Founder of OndaVia
Mark is a serial entrepreneur with broad technical and business experience. He founded a recycling company at thirteen, led programming efforts for environmental compliance software at a start-up during his undergraduate studies, and invented the core technology that would become the foundation for two later start-ups during graduate school.
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About OndaVia: OndaVia develops microfluidics- and nanotechnology-based solutions that are capable of detecting contaminants.
Jeffrey Draa
Co-Founder and CEO of Grolltex, Inc.
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About Grolltex, Inc.: Grolltex, the largest US producer of electronics grade graphene, is also designing and manufacturing graphene biosensors on plastic
Joel Meeks-Matous
Founder & CEO of TMM Disruptive Advanced Materials
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About TMM Disruptive Advanced Materials, TMM Disruptive Advanced Materials: TMM creates sustainable and low-cost Nanomaterials for commercial markets from waste products
Sherif Soliman
Founder and CEO of Matregenix
Sherif Soliman currently works as Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Matregenix. He previously worked at Biostage, Inc. as Director of Biomaterials Research.
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About Matregenix: Matregenix is a medtech company offering advanced nanofibrous materials for medical applications.
Tatsunori Suzuki
Co-Founder, CEO of Zeptor
Prior to founding Zeptor, Suzuki led the Micro Fuel Cell research project at Intel Corporation. His passion for that project led directly to the formation of Zeptor. Prior to join Intel, Suzuki worked on engine management systems for the automobile industry including the development of a Formula-1 racing engine. From there he branched out into EV research. His goal is to guide the world into a regime of economic and environmental sustainability.
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About Zeptor: Zeptor develops an innovative silicon anode that enables battery makers to produce lithium-ion batteries that exceed 700Wh/L.
Ryan Gerakopulos
CEO & Co-Founder of NanoQuan
Ryan Gerakopulos is CEO and heads NanoQuan’s business strategy. His teams have gained recognition for commercializing innovative nano-fabrication and nano-materials technologies. He developed advanced aircraft instrumentation systems with Bombardier Aerospace, and advanced nano-materials manufacturing processes with GABAE Industries.
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About NanoQuan: NanoQuan develops and manufactures advanced nanocomposite materials.
Chris Yu
Founder & CEO of AnPac Bio-Medical Science
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About AnPac Bio-Medical Science: Anpac Bio-Medical Science is a biotechnology company focusing on early cancer screening and detection.
Hector Cavazos
CEO, Managing Director of Adama Innovations
Hector is the CEO and managing director of Adama Innovations. He attended University of California, Santa Barbara and studied applied mathematics.
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About Adama Innovations: Adama Innovations have a disruptive technology for advanced manufacturing.
Ohad Bendror
Founder and CEO of NanoSpun Technologies
Ohad Bendror is the founder and CEO of NanoSpun Technologies.
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About NanoSpun Technologies: NanoSpun Technologies develops and produces live-active biological tissues for cosmetics and health applications.
