• Business plan review for investors and venture capital firms. • Performed market analysis of specialty carbon in supercapacitors for a large activated carbon manufacturer. • Advised startups on product strategies and business plan development.

Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer, & Board Member, Apr 2011 – Feb 2013Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer, & Board Member, Oct 2007 – Apr 2011• Led a team of up to 10 individuals, which included scientists, engineers, and non-technical staff. • Led efforts for exclusive licensing of 9 patents on carbide-derived carbon technology from Drexel University covering a wide range of applications. • Raised $6 M from corporate partners and federal/state agencies. • Developed and commercialized several new products: carbon materials and electrodes for supercapacitors, capacitive desalination, and batteries; carbonaceous adsorbent for gas and liquid chromatography application; carbonaceous adsorbent for decolorization related applications. Successfully transformed basic research into products and sales. Successfully licensed technology to a Fortune 500 company for analytical application.• Led financial planning and analysis including 2-year P&L forecast development, Board communications, and monthly P&L management.

• Developed and defined carbon characteristics (structure, porosity, chemical composition, surface chemistry) required for high energy and power density supercapacitors.

• Developed understanding of material degradation in molten carbon fuel cells and proposed a solution to overcome it.

• Synthesized and characterized a family of tunable nanoporous carbon called carbide derived carbons, produced by thermo-chemical etching of metal atoms from carbides. Conducted a systematic study on the effects of porosity on the hydrogen storage capacity of carbon material.• Work led to the formation of Y-Carbon, Inc.

• Developed software code for back office and web based front office products and services.

• Led a multi-disciplinary team in Dolomite manufacturing department.