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Robert Piconi is Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Energy Vault, responsible for the overall vision, strategic direction and operational performance of the company. Robert’s experience includes prior Executive leadership roles in Fortune 100 public companies across various industries including Diversified Energy (Amoco/British Petroleum), Telecommunications (Bell Labs Lucent Technologies), and Security/Network Management Software (Danaher Corporation). Within the private sector, he also founded and developed several innovative Healthcare service and medical device companies within the European market which were later acquired by Private Equity funds and/or large industry conglomerates. Robert completed his BS/BBA undergraduate studies at the University of Notre Dame and his graduate MBA studies at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Andrea Pedretti is Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Energy Vault, responsible for technology innovation. Energy Vault creates highly disruptive and innovative solutions for long duration, utility-scale energy storage that, for the first time, enables renewables to deliver baseload power 24/7 below the cost of fossil fuels. Prior to Energy Vault, Andrea founded and served as Chief Technology Officer in multiple solar and renewable technology companies. Andrea holds over 25 patents worldwide for a variety of applications in energy storage, solar thermochemical science for solar fuels, and civil engineering. Andrea completed his Masters of Science (MS) in Engineering at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland.

Andrea Wuttke is Chief Financial Officer of Energy Vault, responsible for finance and administrative functions. Andrea has over 15 years of experience in finance, management, complex M&A transactions, and capital markets including serving as CFO (Natel Energy) and  Managing Director (Canadian Solar). With Deutsche Bank, Andrea executed EUR 1.7B of infrastructure acquisitions and implemented a EUR 300M (equity) Renewable Energy franchise. She executed major M&A transactions (JP Morgan), advised the Council of Economic Advisors (White House & OECD Board) and is engaged with the Downtown Streets Team in Palo Alto. Andrea obtained her Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University and was awarded a Siemens Ph.D. fellowship. She holds a Master’s in Economics and Political Science from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.

Merrick Kerr is the Chief Commercial Officer of Energy Vault responsible for global commercial deployment. Merrick has prior experience in Executive, Financial, & Commercial roles within Energy/Renewable sectors (Advisian, Foster Wheeler AG, eSolar, Rentech, PPM Energy, PacifiCorp, and Scottish Power). Merrick has over 25 years of Energy industry experience, holding senior financial and commercial roles with renewable energy companies. Merrick earned his BSc in Social Sciences from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.

Marco Terruzzin is Chief Product Officer of Energy Vault, responsible for product vision, innovation, and design. Marco is a product innovator and internationally recognized expert in climate change mitigation strategies (200+ renewable energy projects, $3 billion in power purchase agreement), with proven track record of growing businesses at the intersection of clean-tech (renewable energy + environmental markets) and digitization. Founding advisor (Energy Block chain Consortium), Diversified Energy Sector (E.ON Climate & Renewables, GE, Evolution Markets, Roland Berger Management Consulting). Marco holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Energy Economics from the University of Padua (Italy), and earned his MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.

Laurence Alexander is Chief Marketing Officer of Energy Vault, responsible for global deployment of the marketing communications strategy for the company. Laurence has held Board positions and Executive Leadership Roles leading global brand strategy across a range of business sectors. His professional experience includes Marketing/Sales Enablement (Early WMC); Platform CMO – Security/Network Mgmt. (Danaher Corporation), Telecom (Emblaze, World Online, Genie, British Telecom, o2, SAB). Laurence is renowned for his relentless energy, delivering unparalleled rates of commercial and investment growth for multiple business. He has led and successfully managed several businesses from start up, M&A, and IPO into public companies and into trade sales. Laurence studied in Brighton (UK) and obtained an HND in Business Studies.

Chris Wiese is Chief Operating Officer of Energy Vault, responsible for Product Realization. Chris’s experience includes prior executive leadership roles in Fortune 100 public companies across various industries including RFID Barcode Scanning/Mobile Computing (Zebra Technologies), Network Emulation & Testing (Spirent Technologies), Security/Network Management (Danaher Corporation), and Telecommunications (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Alcatel). Chris completed his undergraduate and post graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin with a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering, and then entered into Doctorate studies at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken NJ.

Gonca Icoren is Chief People Officer at Energy Vault responsible for global people strategy including culture and employee experience, talent and performance management, learning and development, as well as compliance.

Gonca’s experience includes prior executive leadership roles in Biotech and Pharmaceuticals industry (Amgen, Actavis, Pfizer) and human resources consultancy work in the Financial sector (PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Turkey).

Gonca completed her Bachelor's degree in International Relations at Middle East Technical University - Ankara, TR and earned her Executive MSc, International Human Resource Management at Cranfield University - Cranfield School of Management - London, UK.