About Us
Sion Power is a privately owned company that began as a spin-off from Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1989 as Moltech, which focused its efforts on research and development. Since then, the company has grown, attracting an impressive group of scientists, engineers, and partners who relentlessly developed the technology needed to reach the next generation of rechargeable battery technology.
Today the company consists of over 100 employees, many of whom have Ph.D.’s. This impressive group of individuals has acquired over 470 international patents and patent applications. The company’s 67,000 square foot production and R&D facility include a dry room for fabrication as well as test, analytical/materials, and electronic assembly labs. In addition, the company completed a 5,300 square foot battery test facility.
Years of research and development have yielded the Licerion® lithium metal technology, which is poised to dramatically change the lithium battery landscape, delivering the highest combination of energy density and specific energy available.
Leadership
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Pamela Fletcher
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Tracy Kelley
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Carlos Restrepo
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David Casperson
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Pamela Fletcher has been at the forefront of the automotive industry, leading award-winning product, technology, and new businesses teams. She has a passion for innovation and a track record of scaling high-growth business ventures, disrupting established industries, and attracting new customers. At General Motors, she led the teams that delivered the electric Chevrolet Bolt and Chevrolet Volt — both recognized as Motor Trend Car of the Year — as well as the first true, hands-free driver assistance technology — Super Cruise. In the aviation industry, a hard to decarbonize sector, she set a strategy at Delta Air Lines to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and activated initiatives across the organization to achieve short to long term goals, an industry first.
An engineer by trade, Fletcher’s experience is broad and global. She has a passion for innovation and is a mastermind for what’s next beyond traditional automotive. She has an impressive track record of spearheading and scaling new, high-growth business ventures, disrupting established industries, entering new markets and attracting new customers, as seen through her leadership of BrightDrop, GM Defense, General Motors Insurance, OnStar Guardian and more.
Fletcher has been recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People, featured twice on Motor Trend’s Power List, named in the top 100 Leading Women in the North American Auto Industry by Automotive News and one of the top 100 Most Influential Women by Crain’s. Most recently, she was recognized by Sustainability Magazine as a top 100 Chief Sustainability Officer in 2022 and 2023 and was also a featured speaker at Fortune’s 2023 Most Powerful Women Summit.
Tracy Kelley has been with Sion Power for 20 years with his current role being President / Chief Science Officer. Tracy has held various positions previously at Sion Power, including CEO for eight years and CTO for five years. Before joining Sion Power, Tracy worked for Valence Technology, a developer of lithium-ion batteries.
As CTO of Sion Power, Carlos Restrepo oversees everything from the core electrochemistry to the incorporation of cells into application-specific battery packs. Restrepo has more than 20 years of technology experience in a variety of industries with a focus on energy storage within the solar market. Before joining Sion Power, he was the CTO for Eos Energy Enterprises, a developer of zinc aquos battery technologies, where he led the Innovation, R&D, Engineering, and IT.
David Casperson, CPA, currently leads the Finance and Accounting functions at Sion Power, leveraging a decade of expertise. His career is marked by a significant tenure at Grant Thornton, where he successfully managed complex SEC engagements, including Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR) and international operations across the manufacturing and technology sectors.
Board of Directors
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Stefan Jacoby
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Gaurav Ahluwalia
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Scott Brady
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Hansol Kim
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Robert McIntyre
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Lydie Derebreu
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Pamela Fletcher
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Stefan Jacoby, past president of General Motors’ international operations, is a senior consultant who works with leading companies on overall strategy, market position and growth. He has worked and lived in Europe, Asia and the United States. With more than three decades of experience in the automotive industry, he has recently been a key player in the transformative move to autonomous and electrified vehicles. He built a reputation for identifying and creating strategic vision and direction combined with consistent operational implementation. He has a unique perspective on market growth through experience in finance, sales and marketing. Jacoby recently held the position of president of General Motors International Operations, where he led the transformation and consolidation of the Asian market. Prior to GM, he was global CEO of Volvo Car Group and was CEO of Volkswagen Group of America. Accomplishments include increasing profitability, streamlining business structures and negotiating strategic alliances. Jacoby has served on international boards of GM, Volvo and Volkswagen and has served the supervisory board of LeasePlan in the Netherlands. Jacoby was also chairman of the Auto Alliance in Washington, DC.
Gaurav Ahluwalia is Managing Director, Venture and Direct Investments at Euclidean Capital, based in New York City. Prior to joining Euclidean, he was a Principal at KKR & Co. He has also worked for TPG (Growth) and Morgan Stanley. Gaurav has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Macalester College.
Scott is a Founding Partner at Innovation Endeavors and a four-time entrepreneur. He co-founded three publicly-traded tech companies and is a board member at some of the most ambitious startups in tech. In his role as an investor, Scott looks to partner with entrepreneurs that are leveraging breakthrough technologies to disrupt and transform industries.
Scott led investments in and sits on the board of: Replica, a next-generation urban planning tool that can help cities answer key transportation and land use questions; Plenty, which is driving the super evolution of the $3-trillion-dollar agriculture industry with indoor farms that are powered by machine learning, data science, and automation; Afresh, which reduces food waste and increases access to nutritious food globally by transforming the fresh food supply chain; and Citrine Informatics, which uses AI and massive data sets to accelerate materials discovery and product development.
Prior to joining Innovation Endeavors, Scott was CEO and co-founder of Slice; Co-Founder and CEO of FiberTower; Co-Founder and CTO of Clarus Corporation, and Co-Founder and CTO of SQLFinancials.
Scott is the MBA Class of 1978 Lecturer in Management for 2022-2023 at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches in the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. Additionally, he spent nine years on the GSB Advisory Council and served as the Chairman of the MSx board for 13 years. He was recently awarded the 2022 MSx Teaching Excellence Award and the 2023 Jack McDonald Military Service Appreciation Award.
Scott earned a Masters in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Florida with high honors. He received the University of Florida, Distinguished Alumni Entrepreneur Award in 2016. He holds multiple software and technology patents.
Robert McIntyre is a Managing Director at LG Technology Ventures and has over twenty years of experience as an investor, entrepreneur, and advisor with technology start-ups in Silicon Valley. Prior to LG, Robert was Partner at CMEA Ventures, VP of Business Development at NextBio (acquired by Illumina), and an investor at H.I.G. Capital. Robert holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from the Wharton School.
