Speakers

Spending a majority of his career in energy storage, Nick has held international sales and business development roles for a number of equipment suppliers. His specialty remains in formation, quality control and R&D testing. He has been with Kustan GmbH now for several years in the role of Global Vice President, Sales and Business Development and also acts as President of Inbatec Americas, the US entity for the Group owning Kustan. He also is one of the organizers of the Energy Storage Equipment Manufacturing Alliance (ESEMA) as a turnkey cooperation of companies supplying the battery and energy storage base with custom equipment and turnkey projects.

His core competence is to help expand both vertically and horizontally businesses that specialize in engineered products. He uses his background in lean manufacturing, lean enterprise, 6S, team leadership and decades in battery and cell production to assist with company growth. This includes a wide network of experts across the globe to augment the value to the client through partnerships and joint development.

Born and raised in Saint Louis, Nick attended the University of Missouri-Columbia and achieved a degree in electrical engineering. Later he attended the Olin School at Washington University St. Louis for his Executive MBA.