About Us
A Vision to Make a Difference...
Quidnet Energy was launched in 2013 with the vision of building breakthrough energy technology to accelerate the energy transition. Utilizing existing hydroelectric and industrial machinery supply chains, Quidnet Energy is about repurposing existing resources to quickly marshal implementable solutions to our most pressing energy and climate challenges.
Quidnet is exciting imaginations in the clean energy business for its potential as a game-changer in the energy transition for its modular, long duration, low-cost storage and grid balancing capabilities. In the past two years, leading energy innovation organizations—all with extremely rigorous technical review processes—have registered their support for Quidnet’s solution through significant financial backing.
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2013
10+ years of technology innovation
$60+M
Investor and government funding
4+
Development projects
The resources to make it happen
Quidnet Energy partners with leading investors and agencies to fund the development of our solution
Our Team
Joe Zhou
Chief Executive Officer
Joe leads the Quidnet team in its mission to revolutionize energy storage and facilitate the transition to a zero-carbon electric grid.
Joe leads the Quidnet team in its mission to revolutionize
energy storage and facilitate the transition to a zero-carbon grid. As a child,
Joe traveled around the world with his parents who worked for large energy
companies. That experience inspired his life-long commitment to game-changing
energy innovation. He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the
University of Alberta, going on to work as an energy consultant across the
globe prior to entering Harvard Business School to earn his M.B.A. Following a
successful run with a battery storage company that he helped grow, Joe was
introduced to Quidnet and became its Chief Executive Officer.
Bunker Hill
Vice President Of Engineering
Bunker joined Quidnet in January 2021 after more than two decades of directing engineering and development for Schlumberger, a global leader in the energy industry.
Bunker joined Quidnet in January 2021 after more than two
decades of directing engineering and product development for Schlumberger, a
global leader in drilling, production, and processing technology for the
energy industry. He earned his B.S. in physics from Texas A & M University
and an M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering – robotics from the
University of Texas at Austin.
Jason Craig
Chief Operating Officer
Craig is responsible for assembling and managing the people and systems necessary to catalyze Quidnet’s rapid scaling across North America.
Scott Wright
Vice President of Operations
Scott is an experienced project manager with expertise in renewable power and energy storage as well as petroleum engineering and geology.
Scott is an experienced project manager with expertise in energy
storage as well as petroleum engineering and geology. Scott has over a decade
of engineering management experience, spanning drilling, completions, and
surface facility construction across North America. He is a registered
Professional Engineer in the state of Texas and earned an B.S. in Mechanical
Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
Henry Lau
Project Manager
Henry has led a variety of complex exploratory, resource extraction, processing, refining, and storage, projects in the oil and gas sectors.
Henry has led a variety of complex , resource extraction,
processing, and refining, projects in the oil and gas sectors. Prior to joining
Quidnet, Henry managed drillings and completions operations for Chevron across
the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. He earned a B.S. in Chemical
Engineering from the University of Alberta and an M.B.A. from the University of
Cambridge.
Cliff Mauroner
Staff Geologist
Cliff is responsible for geologic siting and project development, including working with regulatory agencies to permit individual projects and develop permitting processes.
Cliff is responsible for geologic siting and project development,
including working with regulatory agencies to permit individual projects and
develop permitting processes. He previously worked as an exploration geologist
for the Hunt Oil Company. He earned a B.S. in Geology from the University of
Tennessee at Knoxville and an M.S. in Geophysics from Southern Methodist
University.
Jeremy Magness
Operations Engineer
Jeremy relies on his completions engineering expertise to leverage data storytelling, drive informed decision-making, and optimize operational performance in the field.
Carl Thaemlitz
Fluids Technology Director
Carl Designs and implements sealing systems to improve storage well performance and efficiency.
Carl Thaemlitz
Fluids Technology Director
Carl Designs and implements sealing systems to improve storage well performance and efficiency.
Billy Clark
R&D Engineer
Mary Shouse
Business Operations Manager
Board of Directors
Howard Schmidt
Co-Founder
Extensive career in subsurface technology development: Saudi Aramco’s advanced reservoir research center, Advanced Energy Consortium, and Rice University as senior fellow and adjunct professor.
Christina Karapataki
Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Investor at Breakthrough Energy Ventures; Venture Principal at Schlumberger Corporate Venturing, Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy
Mike Biddle
Evok Innovations
Managing Director at Evok Innovations; founded MBA Polymers, the world’s leading multi-national company recovering plastics from end-of-life durable goods (300 million lbs/yr in Europe and China).
Matthew Nordan
Prime Impact Fund
Co-founder and Managing Director of Prime Impact Fund; more than two decades focused on cutting-edge technologies as an investor, advisor, and analyst.
Our Advisors
Dan Goldman
Advisor, Project Finance & Development
Founding Partner of Clean Energy Ventures & New Energy Capital; VP InterGen; President/CFO GreatPoint Energy
Aaron Mandell
Co-Founder and Advisor
Co-founder Coatue (acquired by AMD), GreatPoint Energy, Oasys water, AltaRock, Sirtris (acquired by GSK), and Zafgen (IPO)
Mark Zoback
Geomechanics Advisor
Stanford Professor of Geophysics, Secretary of Energy’s committee on shale development & environmental protection
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