Leadership Team Meet the team that’s leading the effort to transform industrial power. Colin Wessells, PhD CEO Colin Wessells is Natron Energy’s co-founder and CEO. Colin cofounded Natron in 2012 with two advisors as a spin out of his PhD thesis in the materials science department at Stanford University. He has raised over $130 million in venture capital investments and government awards. He also served as principal investigator for two ARPA-E awards and six funded user proposals at the Molecular Foundry, a user facility at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Colin is a co-inventor of twelve issued and allowed patents related to Natron’s unique Prussian blue cell chemistry and a coauthor of nineteen peer-reviewed papers. He holds PhD, MS, and BS degrees from Stanford in materials science and engineering. Rob Rogan, PhD Chief Business Officer Rob Rogan is the Chief Business Officer at Natron Energy. Rob was formerly the Senior Director of Strategy & Business Development at SunPower, where he led the Commercial Business Unit to over $500M in annual revenue. He also built SunPower’s energy storage business from scratch to become the market leader in less than three years, resulting in a realignment of company objectives to include storage as a key pillar of the business. Prior to joining SunPower, Rob held executive leadership roles at eSolar and Bionic Harvest. He holds a PhD in materials science from CalTech and a BS in Physics from Boston College. Ali Firouzi, PhD Vice President, R&D Ali Firouzi is Vice President of R&D at Natron Energy. Ali has 20 years of industrial experience with energy storage spanning a broad range of battery technologies from flow batteries, to alkaline systems, to intercalation chemistries. In 2005, he co-founded Deeya Energy (later known as Imergy Power Systems) which successfully commercialized flow batteries for Telecom applications in emerging economies. Ali earned degrees in Bachelor of Science and Doctorate of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering from University of Minnesota and University of California at Santa Barbara, respectively. Dr. Firouzi holds 12 issued patents and is well-published in international journals, including three in the journal Science. Jack Pouchet Vice President, Sales Jack Pouchet is the Vice President of Sales at Natron Energy. Jack joined Natron in early 2019 to lead the company’s customer engagement in critical power markets including the data center and telecom UPS markets. Jack has over twenty years of executive leadership experience in high technology firms, including Vertiv (formerly Emerson Network Power), where he was Vice President of Business Development and was the top sales executive for the Hyperscale Solutions group. As one of a handful of executive leaders who have built hyperscale solutions businesses from scratch, Jack is widely recognized as a thought leader in the critical power space. Jack holds a MBA from California Pacific University. Ron Mosso Vice President, Operations experience bringing new products from R&D to commercialization. Most recently, Mr Mosso, was the CTO of EnerVault corporation, a grid-scale electrochemical energy storage company. There, he led the technology development and scale-up from bench-scale systems to a full-scale field demonstration plant. Previously, Mr. Mosso has held executive positions in product development and operations for photonics, solar cell, nano-materials, polymer, and power systems product companies including NanoGram, NeoPhotonics and Raychem Corporation. Doug Countess Vice President, Operations Doug Countess is a Vice President of Operations at Natron Energy. Doug was formerly the Vice President of Manufacturing at First Solar, where he led the corporate transition from the Series 4 product to the Series 6 product. Prior to that, Doug built First Solar’s Program Management Office which guided and streamlined new technology development into international high volume manufacturing. Prior to joining First Solar, Doug held various Operations roles at Intel and Harley Davidson. He holds a MBA in Operations from Lebanon Valley and BS in Electrical and Computer System Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Powering the future. © 2012-2021 Natron Energy, Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use