Bala Padmakumar

Bala Padmakumar is a materials technologist and serial entrepreneur who serves as the CEO of Amperics Inc., a high-performance energy storage company that originated at UCLA. During his tenure, Amperics has transitioned from proof-of-concept to fully characterized products that are scaling into volume production and revenue. Concurrently, from 2016 to 2019, Bala was an advisor to the Chairman of the ASTI Group based in Singapore, focused on transitioning a legacy backend semiconductor testing group into new businesses in energy and transport. He was also an advisor to the board of a data center company where he assisted with new technologies, business models in edge computing, and capital raising. In addition to holding founding and senior management roles over the course of his career, Bala was also a Venture Partner at XSeed Capital. He has a degree in Chemical Engineering from Stanford.

Bala enjoys working with technical teams to develop products from concept through customer readiness and to raise capital from a variety of sources to scale organizations to success. Over the years, he has become skilled in developing and closing strategic relationships which are agnostic to the underlying technology or business. He has extensive experience in both US and international markets.

Expertise:

Business development, capital raising, change management, contract negotiation, corporate finance, customer relations, debt, design, due diligence, engineering management, equity, finance, hardware design, IP/patent strategy, licensing, management, marketing, operations, partnerships, product design, product management

Sectors:

Biotech, consulting, IoT, legal, marketing technology, materials, nonprofit, renewable energy, venture, virtual reality

Roles:

Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Product Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Product Manager, Software Architect, Vice President of Engineering, Vice President of Marketing, Vice President of Sales, Investor

Traits:

Communicative, design-oriented, entrepreneurial, experimental, innovative, risk-taking, articulate

Location:

Silicon Valley