John Searle is Chairman of the Saft Groupe SA's management board. He has been in charge of the Saft group's operational activities since 2002. John Searle is also the President and Chief Executive Officer of Saft SA. He joined the Saft group in 1990, and held various sales and management functions in the United Kingdom and later in France. In 1999, John Searle was appointed head of the SBG division. Before joining the group, he was Director of Operations at Manchester Steel and Marketing Director at Saunders Valve in the United Kingdom. John Searle holds an engineering degree from Cambridge University.

Alessio Beverina is Principal in charge of investments in the energy related sectors, focusing in the semiconductor, components, materials and systems for storage, creation, metering... Alessio started as an analyst with Sofinnova Partners in April 2005. He began his career in 1997 as a researcher at LETI, one of the most important European Labs in the research field applied to electronics. From 2000 to 2003, he worked in the central R&D group for STMicroelectronics, in charge of advanced CMOS technologies. Alessio holds 5 patents and has published several publications. Alessio graduated from Politecnico di Milano, in chemical engineering, with specialisation in chemistry and physics of solid materials, and with an MBA from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP-EAP). Alessio is on the board of Revolt Technology (Switzerland) and Neosens (France).

Peter Räke is Vice President Venture Capital of RWE Innogy since 2008. He has more than 13 years of broad international energy and management consulting experience. Since 2003 Peter Räke has been a Director with responsibility for the German business of Convergence Utility Consultants which was sold to Pöyry Energy Consulting. During his more than five year tenure at Convergence/Pöyry, Peter acquired, led and executed numerous client projects in strategy, reorganization, business process design and re-engineering, portfolio & risk management, foundation of new companies as well as in technology and IT. He began his career in 1995 as a Consultant and later Manager for Accenture in the management consulting practice. Peter holds a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from Technical University in Aachen (RWTH Aachen). He is on the board of Mantex AB (Sweden).

Erik Hagen is Managing Partner of Viking Venture, one of Norway's leading venture funds. Viking Venture focuses on investments within ICT and Energy in Norway and the Nordic countries and manages funds of 100 mUSD. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from the Norwegian Institute of Technology and an MBA from INSEAD, France.
Erik's background includes McKinsey & Co. (project manager), NetCom GSM (VP Marketing - Distribution), Scandinavia Online (CEO), Arthur Andersen & Co. (Partner).
He is serving as board member in a number of Viking Venture's portfolio companies as well as in the Norwegian Venture Capital Association and listed Adresseavisen ASA.
Erick Hagen holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from NTH (Trondheim), MBA from INSEAD (France).

Hans G. Schreck is a General Partner at TVM Capital since 1999.
Prior to joining TVM Capital, Mr. Schreck was a founding member and Vice President of Mustang Ventures, the corporate venture resource of Siemens' Information and Communication Networks group.
Mr. Schreck currently represents TVM Capital on the boards of Axxom Software AG, Bitwave Semiconductor Inc., Cambridge Broadband Ltd., Enigma Semiconductor Inc., Hymite A/S, Revolt Technology A/S, Streaming21 Inc. and Ubidyne Inc. Earlier investments include TravelTainment AG (acquired by Amadeus), Comstock Systems Inc. (acquired by Hitachi) and Neolinear Inc. (acquired by Cadence).
He holds a M.Sc. degree from the Cranfield Institute of Technology (UK) and a Dipl.Ing. degree from Fachhochschule, Darmstadt (Germany).

Dr. Stori received his PhD in polymer chemistry at the University of Oslo in 1980. Following a period as a research scientist at SINTEF, Oslo, working with high temperature polymers and surface modification of polymers, he worked as research manager at the laboratory of Dyno industries. In 1988, Dr. Stori returned to SINTEF and has been working with the research institute ever since, initially as chief scientist and later as Vice President for Research at SINTEF Materials and Chemistry. Dr. Stori has a part-time professorship at the Technical University of Norway (NTNU) and sits on the Board of Directors at a number of SINTEF spin-off companies.

Tellef joined Northzone as a co-founder in 1996, and he has been instrumental in the fund raising and building of Northzone Ventures to a leading Nordic venture capital firm.
Tellef co-ordinates the activities in Northzone's offices, as well as being active with Northzone's new investments and portfolio companies. Tellef was instrumental in the foundation of the Norwegian Venture Capital Association and acted as its first Chairman.
Tellef serves as Chairman of the board of Mamut ASA and Revolt Technology. Tellef is also a Director at the University of Oslo's Technology Transfer Office (Birkeland Innovasjon AS), member of EVCA's Investor Relations committee and a board member of the Norwegian Venture Capital Association.

James is a battery industry veteran and entrepreneur with experience in commercializing new technologies. During the last 20 years he has held senior management positions in North America, Asia and Europe in the battery and printed electronics industries with companies such as International Components Corporation, where he held several executive positions in sales, marketing and operations in the U.S., China and Singapore and contributed significantly to the company's unprecedented growth of its battery charger business with companies such as Motorola, Black & Decker and Bosch. At Valence Technologies (VLNC) NASDAQ, he was responsible for the worldwide marketing and licensing of the company's extensive patent portfolio of lithium polymer batteries and related technology where he licensed battery technology to industry leaders such as SamsungSDI and Amperex Technology Limited.
Later, as a consultant to Dow Chemical, he was effective in the spin-out and formation of Aveso Displays, a flexible electrochromic display company where he later led the business development efforts as VP of Global Sales. During his last assignment and tenure at Solicore, he trademarked the Flexion^® product line of thin flexible lithium polymer batteries and took it from concept to contracts totalling millions of units per year with global OEMs and distribution partners in Japan, Korea, China, the U.S. and Europe. Throughout his career James has been instrumental in raising tens of millions of dollars in venture capital and private equity.
James has an MBA from Thunderbird, The School of Global Management and a B.S. of International Business Management from Ferris State University.