Rebecca Goldberg, VersaVolt’s cofounder and CEO, is an accomplished entrepreneur and executive leader. She has 15 years of experience in building and developing new businesses and is skilled in scale-up, growth, and process engineering. She has worked in the light manufacturing, technology, healthcare, environmental, packaging, consumer goods, higher education, insurance, and financial services industries, as well as with the US Military. As a consultant, her clients have included Global Fortune 100 companies, Fortune 500 companies, top-25 universities, and the United States Army and Navy.

Ms. Goldberg is a Guest Executive Lecturer at the University of Virginia Darden School, where she holds a 2003 MBA. She is coauthor of The Lean Anthology: A Practical Primer in Continual Improvement (Productivity Press/CRC Press,) and has published over 20 articles in The Washington Post, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Business & Economy, and Strategic Innovators on a variety of topics, including strategy, operations design, leadership, change management, and employee engagement. She is a past member of the Center for Corporate Education’s corporate advisory board at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Dr. Martin Peckerar is VersaVolt’s Board Chair, co-founder, and consulting engineer. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and is the lead inventor of 24 granted US patents, including the VersaVolt technology. He is the author of over 110 peer-reviewed journal papers and the text Electronic Materials: Science and Technology (Academic Press.)

Dr. Peckerar has broad experience in industry and academia, as well as entrepreneurship. He was a group leader in advanced CMOS development for Westinghouse Electric and the manager of the nanoprocessing facility at the US Naval Research Laboratory, as well as the Navy Manager of the DARPA advanced Lithography Program. He has founded two startups at the University of Maryland commercializing his inventions, and is a past member of the board of visitors of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boston University.

Many of his inventions are in widespread use in the semiconductor industry, including the deep depletion CCD imaging device for x-ray and infrared imaging, the first “radiation hardened” CCD imager for space applications, and the first CCD imager capable of sensing ultraviolet radiation in a spectral range down to 120nm. He is also the lead author of the issued patent underlying the flexible, high-capacity VersaVolt battery.

Imagine your toughest or most expensive problem. What if you could collect more information in a hard-to-reach place, like the bottom of the ocean, the tip of an airplane wing, or the inside of a tomato? Under what circumstances is a battery with nearly infinite shelf life most valuable?

Sure, we aim to solve the toughest power-assisted challenges with our integrated, smart solutions. We also want to create the most good for the greatest number of people—and for our planet. Being “green,” safe in operation, nontoxic, and nonflammable is a great start, but we’re pushing further. Our goal is to help solve the humanitarian and environmental concerns of our time.

Our team is dedicated to adapting our patented battery technology and integrated, smart solutions in service of solving your toughest and most pressing business challenges. Our scientists and process engineers are leading experts in their specific fields and provide high levels of technology transfer support from start to finish.