Mission Statement
Sienza’s Mission is to be the primary supplier of pure silicon anodes to the rechargeable battery industry at the lowest cost and the highest quality. We will secure the highest profit for our investors while improving people’s lives and preserving our planet by adhering to the three key principles of sustainability: reduce, reuse, and recycle!
Message from our Chairman
“We believe our unique 3D electrode architecture will change lithium battery technology the way the transistor changed vacuum tube electronics. It will enable electric vehicle batteries to be built at half the current cost and provide twice the range for the same size battery.“
Dr. Gharib is the Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bio-Inspired Engineering at Caltech.
Management Team
Dr. Mory Gharib
Chairman of the Board and Principal Technical Advisor
Dr. Matthew Tasooji
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Azin Fahimi
Chief Technology Officer
Alan Wong
Director of Operations
Board of Directors
Prof. Mory Gharib is the Hans W. Lipmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bio-Inspired Engineering and served as the Vice Provost for Research at Caltech. Dr. Gharib is a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He has over 90 US patents and has founded 8 start-up companies. In addition to his role as board member, Prof Gharib also provides technical oversight and as-needed guidance to Sienza.
Patrick Soon-Shiong, M.D., a physician, surgeon, scientist, inventor, technologist and philanthropist, has devoted his career to understanding the fundamental biology driving life-threatening diseases and translating these insights into medical innovations with global impact.
He serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NantWorks, an ecosystem of companies with deep understandings in a wide variety of complex industries, from medical science to physics, from data to AI and from communications to mobility.
Jim Demetriades is a lifelong inventor, entrepreneur, and investor. With only $5,000, he started his own software company, SeeBeyond, at the age of 26, and cultivated it into the world’s largest organically-grown integration software company, whose products were ranked #1 globally by the Gartner Group.
Dr. Sobhani graduated from Georgetown University in 1989 with a Ph.D. in Political Economy with a focus on energy economics. He is a highly accomplished business executive with 25+ years of advisory work for the highest levels of government in the United States, and multinational energy companies. Dr. Sobhani has served as CEO of Caspian Group Holdings (CGH) since 1990, serves as an Executive Board member of Z Advanced Computing, an Artificial Intelligence company focused on 3D image recognition, and is a founder and CEO of Sparo Corporation, a global venture philanthropy platform. In 2016 CGH launched a project in Bahrain for “smart solar”. Dr. Sobhani has authored several books and penned numerous articles on a wide variety of topics ranging from foreign policy to renewable energy.
Dr. Fabio Albano has extensive experience in advanced battery technologies development and manufacturing, both in large scale energy storage and electric mobility. Dr. Albano has invented and patented novel solid-state electrolytes and manufacturing methods for lithium batteries and is responsible for more than 50 domestic and international patents and publications. He holds or has held leadership roles in established and startup companies like NexTech (Lithium-Sulfur), NantEnergy (Metal-Air), Fisker (EVs), ZAF (Zinc-Air), XALT Energy (Li-Ion), Sakti3-Dyson (Solid-State). Dr. Albano received his Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from The University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (USA) and Engineering Diploma from Grenoble School of Physics (France).
Matthew Tasooji did his undergraduate and PhD studies at USC in Communication Systems. Matthew also received his MS from Stanford University in Engineering Economic Systems. Matthew joined DIT as a professor in EET in 1984 and later served as the department chair. He joined Qualcomm in 1995 and headed the engineering technology training department and was responsible for Evangelizing and commercializing Qualcomm’s CDMA technology. Matthew also has worked for Ericsson, Gtran, and Nokia prior to establishing his own company in 2012. Matthew has managed the development of a number of products for Nokia as well as HP. He joined Sienza as CEO in January 2019.
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