Brian Bishop, PE
Joshua Campbell
Joshua Campbell is an accomplished financial executive with a Master’s in Accounting and a Bachelor’s in Business Administration. He possesses extensive expertise in strategic financial management and CFO services across a range of sectors, including manufacturing and technology. Joshua has demonstrated a proven track record in startups and strategic planning, and his leadership in implementing accounting systems has significantly enhanced financial processes and efficiency. His ability to drive innovation and support business growth uniquely positions him to drive success for organizations. Mr. Campbell is working for the company as an independent contractor and fractional CFO.
Madisen McCleary, PhD
Madisen McCleary, Ph.D. is the lab director and first hired employee of Skip Technology. Previous to taking the position of lab director, Dr. McCleary was lead hands-on cell development R&D. She is an expert in fuel cells, corrosion studies, coating technologies and material design and manufacturing. Madisen earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Portland and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Montana State University. Madisen cares deeply about our planet and has dedicated her career to bringing climate change solutions to fruition.
Joey Haber
Joey Haber is the Executive Vice President of Business Development at Skip Technology. Mr. Haber handles investor relations and business strategy both stateside and abroad. In 2020, Mr. Haber became the first investor in Skip Technology. In the years since he has executed a grassroots strategy to secure early funding. Mr. Haber has spent the last 13 years cultivating deep relationships in Beijing, China. Through these connections he has built strong relationships that have opened the doors to business opportunity.
Corporate Board
Benjamin Brown, PhD
Benjamin Brown, Ph.D. is the co-founder and president of Skip Technology. Dr. Brown is an expert in fluid dynamics, and he leads our research efforts. He earned his B.S. in Physics from Harvey Mudd college and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from University of Colorado Boulder. He has served as a tenured professor of astrophysics at CU Boulder for over a decade, and his academic work on the solar dynamo was recently featured on the cover of Nature magazine. Ben is passionate about helping develop the solutions we need for our warming and climate-changing world.
Brennan Gantner, PhD
Brennan is an accomplished rocket engineer. He has designed and flown space-certified hardware (equipment/machinery) successfully and has over 20 years of experience in project management as well as prototype design, building and testing with NASA, Lockheed Martin and NOAA.
He translates Ben’s designs into buildable devices: his skills in team leadership, modern additive manufacturing techniques, and material science have underpinned the development of our clean power infrastructure systems. Brennan also brings expertise in clean tech entrepreneurship, leading the core team who are developing our business.
Bradley Root
Bradley Root represents Puyallup Tribal Enterprises (PTE) on the Skip Technology board. He provides advising and expertise on manufacturing and coordinates between Skip Technology and PTE, Skip Technology’s manufacturing partner. Mr. Root is the CEO of PTE’s Manufacturing Division. His professional qualifications include over 30 years of manufacturing, process engineering, general business, entrepreneurship, and leadership. He ran GM Nameplate manufacturing with more than 1200 employees and over $160mm in annual revenues.