lowell-massachusetts
(2)Chris Holmes
Chris Holmes is the President and CEO of AvCarb Material Solutions, a Lowell, Massachusetts maker of engineered carbon materials - the felts, fabrics, and papers that quietly sit at the heart of hydrogen fuel cells, electrolyzers, and flow batteries. An MIT-trained systems engineer with a hybrid technical-and-business background, he is a turnaround specialist who has led high-technology businesses from start-up scale to north of $200M in revenue, largely inside private-equity portfolios. At AvCarb he is steering a company with 1960s roots toward the center of the clean-energy transition.
Mike Zimmerman
Mike Zimmerman is the founder and CEO of Z-Polymers, the Lowell, Massachusetts company behind Tullomer, a melt-spun super polymer marketed as stronger than PEEK and stainless steel yet light enough to print on a desktop 3D machine. A career materials scientist with a PhD in mechanical engineering, he spent nearly 15 years at Bell Labs and Saint-Gobain before founding a string of deep-tech ventures including Quantum Leap Packaging and the solid-state battery company Ionic Materials. He has also taught materials science at Tufts University for more than three decades.