MEET THE TEAM

Maddy is the lead materials engineer at Skip Tech. Her work involves the creation of novel carbon materials for various components of the Skip Tech Power Cell. She also manages laboratory activities and conducts research with the team.

She is an expert in fuel cells, corrosion studies, coating technologies and material design and manufacturing. She enjoys studying and working with materials of all types and is especially interested in applying expertise to renewable systems.

Maddy earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Portland and a PhD in Materials Science from Montana State University.

Aniketa has over 15 years of experience in materials characterization and electrochemistry, including six years with the DOE Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis at Caltech. Her work with the High Throughput Experimentation group resulted in over 25 publications and three patents.

Her experience also includes materials characterization techniques such as scanning probe microscopy (STM, AFM, KPFM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. Previous work encompasses a wide range of environments including academic laboratories, semiconductor high-volume manufacturing, and science education/outreach.

Aniketa has a BS in Physics from UCLA, MS and PhD in Physics (Chemical and Material Physics) from UC Irvine.

Karana is in charge of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) measurement and analysis, reference electrode manufacturing and testing and hydrogen absorption measurements at Skip Tech.

She started her career in battery technologies, gaining expertise in electrochemical cells that helped land a role in the flow battery industry as the R&D engineer at ESS Inc. She is passionate about new technologies and wants to transform the future through renewable storage.

Karana received a BS in Chemistry from Portland State University and a MS in Chemistry from the University of Oregon.

Ashley has over 15 years of experience in marketing and communications. She started her career in B2B software, focusing primary on digital marketing and web analytics. She’s originally from Texas, where she wrote for The Austin Chronicle (Austin’s alt-weekly) for 12 years.

In 2019, Ashley earned her BS in chemistry and has focused on science and technical communications and marketing ever since. She also holds a BA in English from the University of Texas at Austin and an MLA in literature from St. Edward’s University.

Heidi helps develop and implement power cell testing techniques, conducts cell electrode corrosion testing and assists in data analysis.

She enjoys the demands of a startup environment and is excited to be part of the fight against climate change.

Heidi received a BS in Physics from Walla Walla University and a MS in Physics from Washington State University.

Dave is the lead mechanical designer and drafts and refines all power cells and prototypes. He sources materials and equipment, and he heads up computer numerical control (CNC) operations to automate the manufacturing process.

Dave brings over thirty years of experience in product development, including designing and manufacturing custom-made products for aerospace and defense contracts. He produces high-accuracy parts for Skip Tech with excellent physical properties directly from a computer-aided design (CAD) file.

Morgan does a bit of everything at Skip Tech. She assists in the creation of carbon materials, routinely builds power cells and tests them and helps with numerous projects that pop up in the day of an emerging company.

She has extensive experience as a lab technician, primarily in the bioscience and health industries, mastering a skill set that is transferable to designing and building energy storage systems.

Morgan has a BS in Forensic Science with an emphasis on Biology from the University of Southern Mississippi.