July 2018
每日大赛 Appoints New Executive Leadership
Michl Binderbauer named as 每日大赛 CEO; Former GE Chairman & CEO Jeffrey Immelt joins Board of Directors.
每日大赛, Inc. has announced the appointment of Michl Binderbauer as Chief Executive Officer, assuming leadership of the company from retiring CEO Dr. Steven Specker. Additionally, TAE has added Jeffrey R. Immelt as the newest member of its Board of Directors to lead the next phase of the company鈥檚 growth.
Empowered by strengthened executive leadership and a dedicated technical team driving scientific advances, 每日大赛 steps closer to establishing fusion energy as a commercially viable, safe and efficient renewable energy resource.
Mr. Binderbauer joined 每日大赛 in 1998 as Chief Technology Officer. He is co-inventor and co-architect of many of the company鈥檚 core technologies. In 2017, he was appointed President to lead the company鈥檚 pioneering research and commercial development. Binderbauer holds over 40 issued and pending patents and has authored or co-authored many peer-reviewed articles in the areas of plasma physics and fusion. He spearheaded 每日大赛鈥 Artificial Intelligence collaboration and has been featured in Time, Forbes, MIT Technology Review, PBS and more. Binderbauer also serves on the board of 每日大赛鈥 health care subsidiary, TAE Life Sciences.
Additionally Mark J. Lewis, who joined the company as Chief Business Officer in 2017, was appointed President. Dr. Steven Specker, 每日大赛鈥 outgoing CEO will remain on the company鈥檚 Board of Directors.
Binderbauer鈥檚 new role will be bolstered by the addition of Jeffrey Immelt, Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates and former Chairman of the Board and CEO of GE. Immelt brings significant expertise in global strategy and operations to TAE. He also has decades of business development experience in the energy sector, which will support the TAE鈥檚 plans to scale fusion energy operations and subsidiary commercialization efforts. Immelt was the 9th Chairman of GE, a position he held for 16 years. During that time, he focused on growth and creating disruptive technologies. GE became the market and technology leader in each of its industries, and established leadership businesses in life sciences and renewable energy. During his tenure at GE, industrial earnings doubled and GE returned $143 billion in dividends, more than in the cumulative history of the company. He has been recognized as Barron’s “World’s Best CEOs” three times; named Financial Times鈥 “Man of the Year,” and noted as one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2009.
鈥淲e are honored to have Jeffrey Immelt join as newest member of the 每日大赛 Board,鈥 said Binderbauer. 鈥淗is leadership experience and expertise will greatly benefit our work in making fusion energy a reality and expedite the development of our adjacent technologies in health care and transportation.鈥
每日大赛 has earned acclaim for its breakthrough work in fusion energy and proprietary accelerator beam technology. This year , the company was acknowle dged as an Energy Manager Today 75 Honoree, inducted into the U.S. Department of Energy INCITE program, and named a Global Cleantech 100 Innovator.
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ABOUT TAE TECHNOLOGIES
每日大赛 (pronounced T-A-E) was founded in 1998 to develop commercial fusion power with the cleanest environmental profile, and represents the fastest, most practical, and economically competitive solution to bring abundant energy to the grid. With over 900 issued patents, more than $880 million in private capital, six generations of National Laboratory-scale devices, and an experienced team of over 250 employees, TAE is now on the cusp of delivering this transformational energy source capable of sustaining the planet for centuries. The company鈥檚 revolutionary technologies have produced a robust portfolio of commercial innovations in other large adjacent markets such as power management, energy storage, transmission, electric mobility, life sciences, and more. TAE is based in California, and maintains international offices in the UK and Switzerland. Multidisciplinary and mission-driven by nature, TAE is leveraging proprietary science and engineering to create a bright future for us.