Mike previously worked for 20+ years at the former United Technologies Corporation where he led multiple teams focused on advanced electrochemical-flow-cell technologies, such as fuel cells, redox flow batteries, and electrolyzers. This work included developing what DOE’s ARPA-E office has described as a “breakthrough flow battery stack.” This technology was successfully scaled up to a complete product via a close collaboration between Mike’s team at the former United Technologies Research Center and Vionx Energy (which was subsequently acquired by Largo and now is known as Storion Energy). Mike has been the Principal Investigator on four different ARPA-E projects. In 2019, Mike was inducted as a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society in recognition for his “key innovations in fuel cells and redox flow batteries,” and he is a named inventor on 90 issued U.S. Patents to date. Mike earned his M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering at U.C. Berkeley in 1996, where his key mentors were Profs. Elton J. Cairns and John S. Newman. Prior to starting his R&D career, Mike was an officer and aviator in the U.S. Navy, and he is a veteran of the 1991 Gulf War.