Mentor Advisory Panel

MENTOR ADVISORY PANEl

IMPEL Mentors serve two roles:

Provide technical and market guidance to IMPEL Innovators after the IMPEL Workshops
IMPEL Mentors also advise the IMPEL Executive Team to support the program's strategic growth

Our current Mentor Advisory Panel is below.

Investors

Ben Price

Investment Director

Orbia Ventures

Frank Yang

Partner

ADL Ventures

Victoria Smith

Investment Lead, North America

Zacua Ventures

Yi Jean Chow

Investment Principal

Clean Energy Ventures

Entrepreneurs and Industry

Jesse Roth

Startup Partnership Manager

HolcimUS

Kipp Bradford

Advisor

Gradient

Monica Roy

Intrapreneurship Manager, Innovation & Technology

Carrier

Sri Sukhi

Founder and CEO

Atrium Energy

Gurvinder Ahluwalia

Founder and CEO

Digital Twin Labs

Policy and Demonstration Experts

Abhijeet Pande

Vice President

TRC

Cedar Blazek

Program Manager, Emerging Technologies

GSA

Kurt Hurley

Building Sustainability, Energy, and Mobility

City of Berkeley

Rodney Sobin

Senior Program Director

National Association of State Energy Officials- NASEO

Smita Gupta

Director for Codes and Policy

New Buildings Institute

Technical Experts

Cindy Zhu

Technology Researcher

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Marco Pritoni

Research Scientist

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Peter Grant

Energy/Environment Technology Researcher

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Ralph Muehleisen

Chief Building Scientist

Argonne National Lab

Yan Chen

Senior Research Engineer

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory