JB Straubel, Founder & CEO of Redwood Materials and Tesla co-founder & former CTO joined as Keynote Guest of Honor at Benchmark Battery Gigafactories USA 2022 in Washington DC.
JB Straubel 在特斯拉工作了15年，是Elon Musk的铁杆合作伙伴.
Straubel joined Tesla as its fifth employee in 2004,[5] and is named as a co-founder.[6] He was its inaugural chief technical officer[3] until moving to an advisory role in July 2019.[4]
At Tesla, Straubel led battery cell design, supply chain and led the first Gigafactory concept through the production ramp of the Model 3. He had a direct role in research and development, team building, and operational expansion from prototype cars through to mass production and expanding battery production to gigawatt-hour scale. Straubel also had responsibility for new technology evaluation, technical due diligence review of key vendors and partners, intellectual property, and systems validation testing.[7] In addition to his work at Tesla, Straubel was also on the board of directors at SolarCity. As the result of a court settlement, Straubel is legally considered to be a co-founder of Tesla.[8]
He was also a lecturer at Stanford University for the 2015-2016 academic year, where he taught the energy storage integration classes (CEE 176C & CEE 276C) in the Atmosphere and Energy Program.
