Team

Mr. Marten earned his B.A. from Vassar College and his J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1980. As an attorney and business consultant he has represented clients in real estate development, film and television, food distribution, satellite communications, oil and gas, solar energy and manufacturing. He was the co-founder of Atlantic Film Studios, Virginia’s first full-service motion picture production facility. Mr. Marten is Chairman of PrimeStar Technologies, a technology development and licensing company.

Today one of the foremost lithium-ion battery experts in the world, Dr. Chen earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Chen’s First Principle Thinking later led to a teaching position at the University’s Business School, developing technology entrepreneurs in the program now known as IC2 Institute. Dr. Chen began his career in the field of spectroscopy, researching solid-state surface chemical processes. Later he was enrolled as a Senior Research Scientist in the Star Wars Program in the Administration of President Ronald Reagan. As a consultant in the battery field, he has been engaged by major companies to solve technical issues, and was involved with one of the world’s largest logistic EV manufacturers. Dr. Chen served as Vice President of Business Development for KLD Energy Technologies, Inc., an American high-tech startup with a superior EV drivetrain technology (including battery and motor system) now deployed in millions of vehicles in Southeast Asia. He oversaw the construction of Qian Jiang Motor Group’s lithium-ion battery production facility in Wenling, Zhejiang, China. In 2000, Dr. Chen founded GotoAuto.Com, an intelligent auto parts sorting network, the methodology behind which was extracted into Para-Synchronous Communication Theory.

Dr. Levy earned a B.S. with honors in Molecular Biology and Neuropsychology and an M.S. in Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering from the University of Oregon, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. He is a licensed engineer in Oregon and California. He has overseen every stage of commercial plant design, has served as chief engineer and project manager on more than two dozen plants, including the design, construction and commissioning of a plant producing a proprietary separator coating and cathode binder for lithium-ion batteries.

Mr. Hutchison is a highly accomplished senior-level executive with more than 25 years’ experience in business development, operations management, customer experience, financial analysis and strategic planning. A former operations officer for the U.S. Army and decorated helicopter pilot, Mr. Hutchison has spent the past two decades as a leader in the aviation industry and as such, worked closely with federal and state bureaus of government, including law enforcement agencies, TSA, Customs, OSHA, DOT and the FAA.

Mr. Lau received his B.S. degree in 1976 and M.S.P.A. degree from the University of Hartford in 1978. He is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of New York and has held Series 7, 63 and 79 securities licenses. Mr. Lau began his career at Deloitte and then worked at the Department of Commerce under the Reagan Administration. Later, he was a member of the Sun Hai Kai Corporation team in Hong Kong (a joint venture/partnership with Merrill Lynch). He worked as a senior management-level accountant and corporate executive for several decades before forming his own advisory company assisting domestic and international clients. Mr. Lau was the Managing Director of the investment banking department at Buckman, Buckman & Reid, and was the lead investment banker providing mergers and acquisitions services, bringing companies public through IPO, APO and SPAC offerings. During the course of his career as an investment banker, he has led a team and participated in raising over a half billion dollars for clients in debt and equity.

Mr. Kao has more than two decades of experience in sales, business development and capital markets across banking, technology, financial services, insurance and energy. Earlier in his career he worked in investment banking alongside Peter Lau, on a team that raised more than $500 million in equity and debt for corporate clients, including public offerings on the NYSE and Nasdaq.

Mr. Marten holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from the College of William & Mary and an M.B.A. from the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business. He has served as Controller of PrimeStar Technologies since 2016, managing financial operations and strategy, and has supported business development for several startups, including one that completed an initial public offering on the Nasdaq.