Management
ENOVIX Corp., founded in 2006 under the operating name microAzure, has assembled a diverse section of proven technology innovators uniquely capable of developing and cost effectively producing the revolutionary 3D Wave Array™ energy storage cells.
Harrold Rust - President & CEO
Mr. Rust has served as CEO and President of ENOVIX since its founding in late 2006. He has 25 years of leadership experience in technology development and driving operational innovations that enable complex 3d structures to become highly cost effective. Prior to ENOVIX he was Vice President of Operations for FormFactor, a Global Top 10 MEMS based Manufacturer, where under his operations leadership the company experienced a highly successful IPO along with significant capacity, revenue, and gross margin expansion . Following his Stanford graduate degree, he spent 17 years at IBM's industry leading magnetoresistive recording head group driving high volume manufacturing of the lithographically based heads that were increasing in areal density by over 60% each year. Hard drive storage systems saw a areal density increase of 1000x during this period.
Ashok Lahiri - Chief Technology Officer & Vice President of Engineering
Mr. Lahiri is the CTO and head of Engineering for ENOVIX. He has 25 years of experience in technology development and process expertise in 3D architectures having been the Senior Director of Engineering at FormFactor and a Senior Engineering Manager at IBM. At Formfactor he took complex 3 dimensional electromechanical devices yielding near zero percent and drove yields to well above 90%, while scaling them to large arrays capable of massively parallel large area probing, an industry first. This resulted in dramatic reductions in manufacturing cost, increased gross margins, and a significant customer value proposition advantage over the competition. In addition Mr. Lahiri brings deep electrochemical systems knowledge from his work experience and educational background at UC Berkeley and has authored or coauthored 10 patents on battery technology and 3 dimensional architectures.
Jim Gilbreath - Vice President of Business Development
Mr Gilbreath has extensive Executive Business Development and Marketing leadership experience in the consumer and industrial mobile computing & communications segments, with an extensive understanding of the value chain. He has successfully initiated and driven significant revenue ramps of hardware and software products into both Tier 1 OEMs & distribution channels in areas such as Mobile phones, mobile computing, Bluetooth, & industrial computing. As marketing head of both NEC and Marvell's embedded processor groups he drove revenue ramps in excess of $100M/yr with P&L responsibility. Immediately prior to ENOVIX he was Vice President of Marketing at Sensory Inc. where he initiated and drove a successful business with Tier 1 OEMs in the Bluetooth & Mobile segments.
Cameron Dales - Sr. Director of Operations
Mr. Dales runs Operations for ENOVIX. Previously he served as Vice President and General Manager for Symyx Technologies, a $150M+ public company that develops high throughput robotic tools for the discovery and processing of advanced materials. At Symyx, he built and managed strategic, long term partnerships with several of the world’s leading energy and materials companies including ExxonMobil, Dow and P&G and was responsible for process development, integration and installation of over 150 multi-instrument, robotic materials processing systems worldwide. Earlier in his career, Mr. Dales identified and built the global supply chain for an automotive MEMS sensor and contributed to cutting edge satellite systems at Lockheed. He holds engineering degrees from Cornell and Stanford and is a named inventor on over 20 US and International patents in the field of automated materials processing.
Dr. Murali Ramasubramanian – Director of Research & Development
Dr. Ramasubramanian is the ENOVIX Director of R&D and has carried out cutting edge research and developed numerous innovative processes involving electrochemistry and electrochemical techniques. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Carolina, during which he worked on understanding multi-component electrodeposition systems from a theoretical and experimental perspective. As a researcher in IBM Corporation’s T. J. Watson Research Center, and subsequently at IBM Storage Systems Division, Dr. Ramasubramanian was responsible for conducting research, development, and implementation of new high moment magnetic materials that were integral to increasing the areal density of hard disk drives by greater than 10X. Prior to being part of the founding team at ENOVIX, he was involved in developing new materials and structures for FormFactor’s MEMS based semiconductor probing devices. Dr. Ramasubramanian has been cited inventor on over 20 US and International Patent & Patent applications on electrochemical materials, processes, and architectures; and has over 10 referred publications.
Dr. Robert M. Spotnitz – Director of Battery Modeling
Dr. Spotnitz is the Director of Modeling for ENOVIX and a 25 year veteran of the battery industry. Concurrently he is the President of Battery Design LLC, a worldwide leader in battery design and modeling software for the battery industry. Dr. Spotnitz was formerly the Director of Li Ion Battery R&D for Polystor and a Staff Scientist and Engineer for Celgard and W. R. Grace & Co where he was a co inventor of the leading Li-ion battery separator film used in the industry today. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has over 30 patents in the battery field.Dr. Venkat Srinivasan – Strategic Technical Counsel
Dr. Srinivasan guides the performance testing & optimization efforts at ENOVIX. He has over 10 years of direct experience in the battery space using mathematical simulations to design, test and characterize batteries for a variety of applications. He holds the position of Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, where he serves as program manager for the Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies (BATT) program, funded by the U.S. DOE. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Carolina and has authored over 25 papers on battery technology.
Dr. Laurie Lauchlan – Director of Process Development
Dr. Lauchlan is the Director of Processing for ENOVIX. She has 30 years of experience in technology and process development of 3D architectures having been a Senior Process Engineer at FormFactor and a Senior Engineering Manager at IBM. At Formfactor she was responsible for driving significant yield improvement and cost reduction through her understanding of yield issues by a methodical analysis of test and process data. Prior that she ran the pilot production facility for IBM’s advanced thin film development line, where 10 generations of industry leading thin film 3D recording heads were developed and perfected. Dr. Lauchlan also worked for a number of years at IBM’s Advanced Semiconductor Technology Center in New York. She holds a PhD in Materials Science from University of Pennsylvania under Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger.
