Alexandra Manick Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

• Responsible for sourcing, diligence, negotiation, and portfolio support across venture and growth-stage tech and healthcare opportunities.• Select portfolio experience includes: Amplified Industries (formerly Acoustic Wells, Board Member), Commonwealth Fusion Systems (Board Observer), JETCOOL Technologies (Board Member), Mantle (Board Member), Millstone Medical Outsourcing (former Board Observer, acquired by Arlington Capital Partners), and Remedy Plan (Board Member).

San Francisco, California, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Gaithersburg, Md, Us

Littleton, Massachusetts, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

• Reported to CTO, JB Straubel, in analyzing energy use associated with current and future vehicle manufacturing processes.• Responsible for market research and valuation of automation technologies for possible acquisition.

Bedford, Ma, Us

• Managed daily production of solar wafers through gettering process (for the reduction of metallic impurities in Silicon)• Worked closely with Supply Chain Manager on cost modeling, tool design, and procurement for new full-scale factory. • Worked with equipment vendors and Supply Chain Manager to reduce the Cost of Ownership of equipment used in the gettering step by 40%. • Leveraged the Design of Experiments technique to improve the performance of the gettering process, and elucidated the potential for an absolute cell efficiency gain of 0.3%. • Selected to make several presentations to the full Board of Directors, investors, and customers.

Bedford, Ma, Us

• Began as an R&D engineer conducting optimization experiments as a member of a small team seeking to reduce metallic impurities in Silicon wafers (gettering). • Optimized Phosphorus diffusion processes for gettering and solar cell emitter (pn-junction) formation. • Optimized Silicon-Nitride deposition processes (Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition) at a supplier’s facility in France.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Conducted experiments to improve the chemical stability of Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene, a plastic used in hip and knee replacements. Second author on published abstract.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

B.S., Materials Science And Engineering