We’ve fostered a collaborative network of talented team members, advisors, and collaborators.
Our technologies benefit from nimble, multidisciplinary teams of creative innovators and veteran experts. We combine the best of both worlds.
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8 Rivers Patents Granted
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Graduate Degrees
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Industries Represented
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Former Companies
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Collaboration makes for better ideas. Find out how we can work together.
Bill Brown
Law, Finance, Banking, Sales and Trading, Teaching
Mike McGroddy
Project Management, Financial Modelling, Techno-Economic Engineering, Marketing
Jayne Baum
Accounting, Finance, Administration
Brock Forrest
Process Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Chemical and Mechanical Engineering
Xijia Lu
Power and Energy, Process, Environmental, Chemical, and Mechanical Engineering
BJ Brown
Product Development, Business Development, Photonics, Commercialization of University IP
Damian Beauchamp
Chemistry, Clean Energy, Batteries, Quantum Computing
Cam Hosie
Law, M&A, Financial Modeling, Infrastructure Finance, Investment Banking, Commercialization, Partnership and Strategy
David Freed
Project Management, Engineering Management, Market Analysis, Strategic Planning
Hannah Clark
Advanced Optics, Quantum Information and Communication Science, Computational Physics
Miles Palmer
Chemistry, Physics, Entrepreneurship, Energy, Communications, Aerospace
Jimmy Michaels
Law, Government Relations, Financial Modeling
Navid Rafati
Process Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Chemical and Mechanical Engineering
Jeremy Fetvedt
Process Engineering, Chemical and Mechanical Engineering, Hardware Design
Walker Dimmig
Communications, Policy and Regulation, Marketing, Sales, Operations
Scott Martin
Power and Energy, Aviation, Chemical Process, Mechanical Design
Rodney Allam
Industrial Gas, Power Generation, Chemical Production
Hideo Nomoto
Fluid Mechanics, Energy Efficiency, Turbine Design
Board of Advisors
Hilda Pinnix-Ragland
Former Vice President of Corporate Public Affairs at Duke and Progress Energy. Chair of the NC State Board of Community Colleges; Governance Chair of the American Association of Blacks in Energy
Peter Lange
Provost Emeritus and Thomas A. Langford University Professor at Duke University; Vice President at Isaacson, Miller.
Governor Jim Hunt
Four-term Governor of North Carolina (1977-1985, 1993-2001); Chairman, Institute for Emerging Issues at North Carolina State University and the Hunt Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of North Carolina.
David Goss
Former partner at White & Case LLP and at Sullivan & Worcester LLP. Former General Counsel of Edison Mission Marketing and Trading (founded as Citizens Power LLC), the first wholesale electric energy trading company in the US.
Ray Johnson
Former Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation; Former Senior Vice President and COO at Modern Technology Solutions, Inc.; Former Senior Vice President and Business Unit General Manager at SAIC.
Roger Ballentine
President of Green Strategies and Venture Partner of Arborview Capital LLC. Former Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force