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

Member

Global Women in VC

Yi Jean Chow

Investment Principal

Clean Energy Ventures

Entrepreneurs and Industry

Jesse Roth

Startup Partnership Manager

HolcimUS

Kipp Bradford

Advisor

Gradient

Monica Roy

Senior Director, Corporate Engagement

QuantumCT

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

Director, Climate Action Policy

City and County of Denver

Kurt Hurley

Building Sustainability, Energy, and Mobility

City of Berkeley

Rodney Sobin

Senior Program Director

NASEO

Smita Gupta

Principal of Policy @ CalMTA

Resource Innovations

Technical Experts

Cindy Zhu

Director of Customer Success

Gridium

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