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Eugene Beh
Eugene Beh is the founder and CEO of Quino Energy, a clean-tech startup commercializing water-based redox flow batteries that store grid-scale renewable energy using quinones - organic molecules dissolved in water. A chemist trained at Harvard and Stanford, he spun the technology out of Harvard's Aziz and Gordon labs and built a single-step, zero-waste manufacturing process that turns coal-tar feedstock into non-flammable battery electrolyte. Before Quino, he was Xerox PARC's most prolific inventor two years running.
Clinton Smith
Clinton Smith is Co-Founder and CEO of RIOS Intelligent Machines, a Menlo Park-based robotics and AI company deploying dexterous robots in factories across industries like wood products, food, and beverage distribution. A Princeton-trained electrical engineer with a Ph.D. on laser spectrometers for wireless trace-gas sensing, he spent years at Xerox PARC and Physical Sciences Inc. before co-founding RIOS in 2018 with fellow PARC engineers. Under his leadership, RIOS has raised $37.5M total including a $13M Series B in March 2024 co-led by Yamaha Motor Corp. and IAG Capital Partners, pioneering a Robots-as-a-Service model that shifts CapEx burden away from manufacturers and promises outcomes from day one.