Members of the Energy I-Corps teaching team gather in Golden, Colorado, for the Cohort 15 opening session.
The teaching team brings the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions' (OTT) Energy I-Corps curriculum to life. Energy I-Corps instructors are truly the backbone of the program and provide the time, energy, and intensity needed to successfully shepherd 12–18 teams through each cohort.
Instructors bring critical industry expertise to the program and introduce the language of innovation and commercialization to the participating teams. By leveraging deep technical backgrounds and advanced business experience, instructors bring their industry knowledge to each session—sharing lessons learned while incorporating program elements, professional development, and commercialization pathways.
Instructors leverage their business and startup experience to the benefit of OTT's Energy I-Corps teams through instruction, one-on-one advisory sessions, presentation coaching, customer discovery review, team building, and network expansion.
Steve Albers
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Living Ink Technologies
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Latane Brackett
Principal Manager, Innovation Programs
GEM i4
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Max Green
Founder and Managing Member
Ratio Flux
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Sally Hatcher
General Partner
Buff Venture Fund
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Rebecca Kauffman
Principal
Sun Raven
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Nakia Melecio
Senior Research Faculty
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Alice Nichols
Specialist
Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization
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Jean Redfield
CFO and Co-Founder
JM Redfield LLC
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Tom Teynor
CEO
Bell Plumbing and Heating
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