Executive Officers
Dr. Bor Jang
Chief Science Officer & Board Chairman
Dr. Jang co-founded Honeycomb Battery Company (HBC) in 2015 and has since served as its President. Dr. Jang co-founded AEC in 2012 and has since served as its President. AEC is engaged in the development and commercialization of anode active materials for lithium-ion batteries. Dr. Jang co-founded Angstron Materials, Inc. (“AMI”) in 2007 and has since served as its Chairman. AMI is engaged in the development and commercialization of graphene processes and application technologies. Dr. Jang cofounded G3 in 2016 and has since served as its Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, and G3 is the parent of several subsidiaries engaged in the development and commercialization of graphene and battery technologies, including HBC, AEC and AMI. Dr. Jang received his Master’s & Ph.D degrees in Materials Science from MIT. Dr. Jang was the former Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Wright State University. He was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor (and an Overseas Fellow of the Churchill College) with the University of Cambridge (1991 – 1992) in the UK. Dr. Jang was elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in 2019. Dr. Jang has more than 800 patents to his credit. Most notably, Dr. Jang filed the world’s first patent application on graphene in 2002. This patent was later recognized by Popular Mechanics magazine as one of the “15 Patents That Changed The World".
Jaymes Winters
Chief Executive Officer & Board Member
With over 15 years’ experience as a Chief Executive Officer in the oil and gas, telecommunications and retail spaces with extensive M&A experience. Mr. Winters been Chief Executive Officer at Solidion Technology since 2024. Previously, Mr. Winters was CEO of Mach FM Corp. beginning in 2015 and oversaw 600 MHz spectrum acquisition via an auction conducted by the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC. He designed a Simultaneous Multiple Round (SMR) analysis using historical data from previous FCC auctions to predict the total amount bid by other participants within 5%.Prior to that, he was founder and Chief Executive Officer of United Energy 168 Table of Contents Inc., which for seven consecutive years was one of the largest African American owned businesses on the West Coast with annual revenues of nearly $100 million and 1,000 employees. Mr. Winters has directed and negotiated four M&A transactions utilizing private equity firms. For over nine years, he was an adjunct professor in the School of Business at Portland State University teaching business strategy, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and is the author of a college textbook titled “Chronicles of an Urban CEO” (Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, August 2021). Mr. Winters holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a minor in Economics from Oregon State University.
Vlad Prantsevich
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Prantsevich has served as Solidion’s chief financial officer since 2024. Mr. Prantsevich leads key corporate strategy, finance and operations planning responsibilities, as well as M&A initiatives that include identifying acquisition candidates, financial modeling, transaction structuring, and proprietary valuation models. Previously, Mr. Prantsevich served as executive vice president of operations at Mach FM Corp. Additionally, Mr. Prantsevich has more than 6 years of executive management level experience in charge of corporate finance at 64 Audio, a global pro audio and consumer electronics brand, where he helped lead the business through a period of rapid growth, implementing key processes, driving software-based improvements of operations, and development of manufacturing and sales channel partners. Mr. Prantsevich holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Portland State University.
Dr. Songhai Chai
Chief Technology Officer
Since September 2021, Dr. Chai has served as the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of G3, where he leads a group of scientists and engineers to develop high-capacity silicon anode and renewable biochar anode materials, provides scientific and technical guidance to research and development activities, supervises the pilot-scale production of silicon-anode materials and oversees a group of battery engineers and technicians to improve electrode formulation and preparation. From 2015 through September 2021, Dr. Chai served as Senior Battery Scientist of G3, where he developed a variety of novel energy-storage materials for different applications, such as lithium-ion batteries, electrochemical and hybrid capacitors. From 2010 to 2015, Dr. Chai was a Research Associate, working on carbon and energy storage materials, at Oak Ridge National Lab. Dr. Chai has co-authored seven issued U.S. patents, one book chapter, and 45 peer-reviewed research articles and has published in 30 internationally renowned scientific journals, including Nature Communications and the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Chai received a Ph.D in Chemistry from Tsinghua University and completed his post-doctoral training at the University of California at Berkeley.
Board Of Directors
Dr. Bor Jang
Chief Science Officer & Board Chairman
Cynthia Ekberg Tsai
Independent Board Member
Karin-Joyce Tjon
Independent Board Member
John Davis
Independent Board Member
Jaymes Winters
Chief Executive Officer & Board Member
Dr. Bor Jang
Dr. Jang co-founded Honeycomb Battery Company (HBC) in 2015 and has since served as its President. Dr. Jang co-founded AEC in 2012 and has since served as its President. AEC is engaged in the development and commercialization of anode active materials for lithium-ion batteries. Dr. Jang co-founded Angstron Materials, Inc. (“AMI”) in 2007 and has since served as its Chairman. AMI is engaged in the development and commercialization of graphene processes and application technologies. Dr. Jang cofounded G3 in 2016 and has since served as its Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, and G3 is the parent of several subsidiaries engaged in the development and commercialization of graphene and battery technologies, including HBC, AEC and AMI. Dr. Jang received his Master’s & Ph.D degrees in Materials Science from MIT. Dr. Jang was the former Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Wright State University. He was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor (and an Overseas Fellow of the Churchill College) with the University of Cambridge (1991 – 1992) in the UK. Dr. Jang was elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in 2019. Dr. Jang has more than 800 patents to his credit. Most notably, Dr. Jang filed the world’s first patent application on graphene in 2002. This patent was later recognized by Popular Mechanics magazine as one of the “15 Patents That Changed The World".
Corporate Governance Documents
Committee Composition
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee | Compensation Committee | Audit Committee | |
|---|---|---|---|
Dr. Bor Jang | |||
James Winters | |||
Cynthia Ekberg Tsai | |||
Karin-Joyce Tjon | |||
John Davis |
Member
Committee Chair
Board Chairman