Executive
Leadership Team
Ambient’s leadership team combines leading edge low light PV scientific expertise with practical, global experience in high volume electronic device manufacturing.
Bates Marshall
Co-Founder and CEO
Bates Marshall is Ambient’s Chief Executive Officer, co-founder, and a member of the company’s Board of Directors. Among his diverse responsibilities, he considers his role as growth champion his most significant — focused on helping both Ambient and its customer partners transform ambitious never-before-imagined ideas into market-transforming products at scale…Read Full Bio
Kethinni Chittibabu, Ph.D.
Co-founder and CTO
Ambient co-founder Dr. Kethinni Chittibabu is a renowned material scientist with specific interest on opto-electronic properties of materials and related devices. Throughout his 30 year career, he has leveraged his uniquely interdisciplinary expertise in synthetic material chemistry, device physics and highly specialized opto-electronic and photovoltaic material development to advance photovoltaic innovation…Read Full Bio
Glenn Gengel
COO
Throughout his career, COO and recognized manufacturing expert Glenn Gengel has successfully brought high technology products from the lab to mass scale over and over again…Read Full Bio
Chris Turkstra
CPO and CMO
Having spent 25 years envisioning, designing, launching and scaling products and platforms for hundreds of millions of users worldwide, Chris leverages his experience building devices….Read Full Bio
Joshua Wright
VP of Engineering
Joshua leads engineering with a focus advancing Ambient’s energy harvesting technology and delivering proof of concepts for customers seeking to deploy Ambient technology in their products….Read Full Bio
