The Team Bringing Fusion to the Table​

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Meet the Heroes behind the Micro Fusion Reactor revolution

Our growing world-class team of researchers, scientists, and engineers is committed to bringing our proprietary FusioNow™ technology to all people around the globe.

World Class team around the globe

ARI is proud of its world-class team of esteemed scientists, industry advisors and business leaders – all of whom share the same passion of making clean and safe energy for all a reality.

Leadership

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Peter Liu
Chief Executive Officer
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Founder and Chairman of WI Harper Group.
Foundation Member of the World Economic Forum

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Carl Bass
Chairman
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Special advisor to Google Founder Larry Page.
Former CEO of Autodesk.
Board Director of leading Autodesk, HP, and Zendesk.

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Peter Hsieh
Chief of Strategy
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Founder and Chairman, Advisory Committee of ARM IoT Capital.
Former President of ARM Taiwan and Freescale Asia Pacific R&D. Design and development of the first RISC chip at IBM in 1981.
PhD in EECS from MIT.

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Mark Saliman
Chief Finanical Officer
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CFO of several early-stage companies with successful exits in the tech industry including alternative energy, software, and biotechnology.
B.S. from UCLA in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Economics.
M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.

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Iskren Vankov
VP of Business Development
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Machine Learning instructor on Udemy with 600,000+ students.
10+ years of software developer experience.
Published author in the Quantum Science and Technology journal.
МSc Physics, Oxford

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Daniel Kammen
Advisor
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Professor of Energy at UC Berkeley & Co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment Laureate of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Founding Director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory
Ph.D. in Physics, Harvard University

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Enrico Cucchiani
Advisor
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Former Group CEO and Chairman of Intesa Sanpaolo Banking Group.
Former President of Allianz S.p.A. and member of the Management Board.
30+ years of experience in finance and insurance.
MBA, Stanford University.

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Egbert von Cramm
Advisor
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Managing Director of Sales and Finance at Entrenco GmbH.
Managing Partner of TR-Squared Capital.
Several decades of experience in management consulting and venture investment, especially in the European market

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Paul Lin
Advisor
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Partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
Experience in cross border corporate transactions and corporate finance, commercial disputes and intellectual property

Science

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Roger Falcone​
Chief Scientific Officer​
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Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley Former President of the American Physical Society Chairman of the ISAC for ELI APS Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

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Richard Petrasso
Advisor
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Senior Scientist at MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Former Head and Co-Originator of MIT High-Energy-Density Physics Division Co-founder and Chair of the Omega Laser Users Group John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research Edward Tellar Medal Recipient

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Alfred Wong
Chief Scientist
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Former Professor of Physics and Director of the Plasma Physics Laboratory at UCLA 60 years of experience in cutting edge physics research Ph.D. in Plasma Physics, Princeton University

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Lou-Chuang Lee​
Chief Scientist
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Former Minister of Taiwan’s National Science Council S. Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics Academician of Academia Sinica Elected Member, The World Academy of Science (TWAS) Foreign member, US National Academy of Engineering

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Alexander Gunn​
Senior Scientist
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Ph.D Physical Chemistry, University of California, Davis B.S. Chemistry with Physics minor, Brigham Young University, Provo

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Gianluca Gregori
Advisor
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Fellow of the American Physical Society and Institute of Physics Career highlights include positions at Oxford University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Multiple prestigious awards, including Daiwa Adrian Prize and John Dawson Award Academic background includes Ph.D. and M.S. from University of Minnesota and M.S. from University of Bologna

Alpha Ring Asia (ARA)

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Peter Kurz
Chairman
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Head of Country Research & Managing Director, Citigroup Global Markets Taiwan (2007-2019)
Established first Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor in Taiwan (1991)
Consistently top-ranked by Institutional Investor, Euromoney, and Asiamoney
Chief Strategy Officer at QIC, advising major biotech firms on international capital markets

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Richard Chang
Chief Executive Officer
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Former Chief of Staff and Spokesperson for China Develpment Financial Holdings
Former President of KGI Bank
39 yeards of experience in the finance industry, covering the fields of banking, securities, and financial holding companies

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Dr. Jyuo-min Shyu
Chairman
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Former Minister of Science and Technology Former President of Industrial Technology Research Institute

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Judy Chuang
Chief Operating Officer
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Former Emerging Product Partner Lead at VMware Greater China Former Senior Regional Alliance Leader at VMware Taiwan. Ex-IBMer

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Dr. Lou-Chuang Lee
Co-Founder & Director
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Former Minister of Taiwan’s National Science Council S. Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics Academician of Academia Sinica Elected Member, The World Academy of Science (TWAS) Foreign member, US National Academy of Engineering

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Dr. Shyue-Ching Lu
Director
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Independent Director of Delta Electronics Honorary Professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Former Chairman of Chunghwa Telecom

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YK Chu
Director
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Senior Partner, WI Harper Group Independent Director of Wistron Group Former President at Sasson International of MTI Group

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Dr. David Chu
Chief Engineer
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Chief Operation Office and Acting Director of Engineering dept. Visiting Specialist, Academia Sinica Chief Engineer, National Space Organization, Taiwan Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, USA