Management Team
Mike Lin, CEO
Mike Lin is the founder and CEO of Fenix International. A serial entrepreneur, Mike previously founded Vestal Design, an award-winning design firm, and B.MINIMA, an eco-solutions company. He has also lectured environmental engineering and design at Stanford as well as social entrepreneurship at Yale. Mike has served on the board of advisors to several eco-startups, consulted for Apple on climate change and environmental toxins, advised a sustainable design project with the d.school and Wal-Mart and worked with Al Gore on the “Inconvenient Truth” presentation as part of The Climate Project. Mike is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) accredited professional, a recipient of the US Environmental Protection Agency's People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Award, Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award and BusinessWeek IDEA Award. Mike earned both his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
Brian Warshawsky, VP Operations
Brian is a seasoned entrepreneur, engineer and operations manager with experience in fast-growth, high-volume consumer electronics manufacturing. Brian was an early member of the Apple iPod operations team, and was the operations lead for the development and introduction of the iPod mini. Brian went on to manage the introduction of a number of iPod products and manufacturing processes, and was responsible for evaluating and bringing up new production facilities in Taiwan, China, and Europe. Brian has also worked at startups in Boston and San Francisco, including co-founding Potenco. Brian earned a BS from Brown University and MS in Materials Engineering from MIT.
Luke Filose, VP Business Development
Luke has extensive experience marketing energy solutions at the base of the pyramid (BoP). He lived in Africa for three years and worked with micro-finance institutions and local entrepreneurs in Mauritania as well as launching a new energy-efficient cookstove in Chad, selling thousands of stoves in the first year. During business school Luke worked with Intel on its emerging markets and corporate affairs teams and previously managed marketing programs for several NGOs focused on Africa. Luke has also worked in public relations, representing high-tech firms in Silicon Valley. Luke earned a BA in Political Science and MBA, both from UC Berkeley.
Technical Team
Paul Jehlen, Mechanical Engineering Lead
Paul leads the design and testing of Fenix's mechanical and generator systems. He has nearly a decade of experience building human powered devices, and his prior work includes land-based solar concentrators, pico-scale wind turbines, competitive human powered vehicles and human powered generators. Paul earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on mechanical systems from the University of Central Florida.
Jonas Ketterle, Electrical Engineering Lead
Jonas is the lead engineer for electrical engineering, computer science and batteries research at Fenix. His previous work includes the design of human powered generators, low cost field microscopes with D-Rev, efficient HVAC systems at Rumsey Engineers, solar panel manufacturing processes with Lockheed Martin Space Systems, and wind turbine inspection robotics at the Fraunhofer Institute. Jonas is co-founder of the Energy Crossroads conference, a recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which supported his graduate work in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, and also a Morris K. Udall scholar and co-recipient of an EPA grant to conduct research on sustainable housing.