Our Team

Meisam Bahari is the CTO of Quino and holds Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Sc. degrees in chemical engineering. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University where he worked with Prof. Mike Aziz and Roy Gordon on developing novel approaches to extend the lifetime of aqueous organic redox flow batteries. His passion is renewable energy and electrochemical systems.

Masahiro Sameshima is the General Partner at ANRI. ANRI is one of the most active seed/early stage VC firms based in Japan. Masa has nearly 10 years of venture investment experience and company creation in Deep Tech sectors.

Prior to joining ANRI, he spent 6 years at Mitsubishi Corporation. Masa earned a master’s degree in Astronomy from the University of Tokyo.

Michael J. Aziz, the Gene and Tracy Sykes Professor of Materials and Energy Technologies at Harvard University, is a co-founder of Quino Energy. He is co-inventor of the organic aqueous flow battery and is the co-recipient of the 2019 Energy Frontiers Prize from Eni.

Roy G. Gordon is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science at Harvard University. A co-inventor of Quino Energy’s aqueous organic flow battery, Dr. Gordon is also a co-founder of Quino Energy and Chair of its Scientific Advisory Board. He jointly received the 2019 Energy Frontiers Prize — the “Energy Nobel” — from Eni together with Dr. Michael Aziz.

Dr. Marc-Antoni Goulet is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at Concordia University. Within the field of microfluidic electrochemical cells, Dr. Goulet is known for the in operando deposition technique and optimized reactor design which produced the highest power density of any microfluidic fuel cell today. In the field of flow batteries, Dr. Goulet is best known for the symmetric cell testing methodology which has been integral to the development of the most stable organic electrolytes currently known.

Brett A. Perlman serves as the CEO of the Center for Houston’s Future, a nonprofit organization working to address matters of highest importance to the long-term future of the greater Houston region. His career has spanned senior positions in business, government and community service organizations. Perlman served for four years as a Commissioner on the Public Utility Commission of Texas, where he was appointed in 1999 by then-Governor George W. Bush.

Joe is a Director on the Arevon Investment team, where he leads sourcing, underwriting, and execution of renewable energy and energy transition investments. Joe has led Arevon’s investments into over 1 GW of solar and storage projects, marshalling over $1.9 billion of capital including development capital, sponsor equity, project finance, and tax equity. Prior to Arevon, he worked at NextEra Energy for four years where he was responsible for M&A, evaluating and investing in distributed generation and community solar, storage, microgrids, fuel cells, hydrogen, and mobility opportunities.

Ed is an entrepreneur and investor with 20 years of experience co-founding, growing & investing in venture-stage start-ups, with three successful exits through acquisition. Ed served as founding CEO of Amber Kinetics, an award-winning energy venture spun out of UC Berkeley’s Power Systems Laboratory, which has grown to over 200 employees and an installed customer base in six different countries. Prior to starting Amber, as an early employee of pioneering solar developer Cleantech America (acquired by Meridian Energy in 2009), Ed helped develop a 380 MW solar project pipeline & brought online California’s first grid connected utility-scale solar power plant.

Ed also previously worked in sales/marketing & operations for a Palo Alto-based server-based computing start-up (acquired by HP in 2007). The experience led Ed to become a founding early-stage investor in Splashtop, which has grown to become a global leader in remote desktop software & Silicon Valley “unicorn”. In assisting Splash top, Ed leaned on his industry experience to advise the Company on a highly successful & scalable early-stage go-to-market strategy.