JB Straubel is the Founder and CEO of Redwood Materials, a company creating a circular supply chain to drive down the environmental footprint and cost of lithium-ion batteries by producing domestic battery components from recycled content. Prior to founding Redwood, JB Co-founded Tesla and spent 15 years as Chief Technology Officer and currently serves on Tesla’s Board of Directors. As CTO at Tesla, JB built one of the best engineering teams in the world, and among many topics, led cell design, supply chain and led the first Gigafactory concept through the production ramp of the Model 3. JB had a direct role in both R&D, team building and operational expansion from prototype cars through to mass production and GWh-scale. JB holds a Bachelor of Science in Energy Systems Engineering and a Master of Science in Energy Engineering from Stanford University.