Carol Maldonado currently serves as a Grants Management Specialist at the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E).

Dr. Robert Mellors currently serves as a Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) at the U.S. Department of Energy. As a geophysicist, his areas of interests include geothermal energy, seismological monitoring, distributed acoustic sensing, and satellite radar.

Dr. Othon Monteiro currently serves as Technology-to-Market Advisor at the Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) where he supports the transition of breakthrough energy technologies from concept to commercial markets. Monteiro has extensive engineering experience in materials engineering, advanced materials, process development, and new product deployment. 

Driola Morrill serves as a Grants Management Specialist for the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E).

Farwa Nawaz currently serves as a Grants Management Specialist at the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E).

Dr. David Nye currently serves as a Technology-to-Market Advisor at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). For the past two decades, Dr. Nye has led R&D, product management, and high-performance engineering teams in in the industrial energy, display glass and HVAC industries.

Lisa Persson currently serves as a Contract Specialist at the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) where she is responsible for full life-cycle management of contracts and financial assistance awards. Prior to ARPA-E, Ms. Persson served as a Contract Specialist within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Headquarters Procurement Services providing procurement support to the DOE Loan Programs Office.

Dr. Cory Phillips currently serves as a Program Director for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). His focus at ARPA-E is on Catalysis (discovery & scale-up) & Reaction Engineering (CRE) for renewable fuels and energy related applications and process technology, as well as tribochemical engineering of surfaces for energy conservation applications

Dr. Laurent Pilon currently serves as a Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA‑E). His focus at ARPA-E is on solar, thermal, and electrical energy storage.

Dr. Brent Ridley currently serves as a Technology-to-Market Advisor at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), supporting technology development and commercialization efforts for a range of programs, including those focused on energy use in data centers.