Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, the world’s largest and best-capitalized fusion energy company. Co-founded the company with a mission to commercialize the high-field approach to fusion and has grown it to more than 1,000 employees, raising almost $3 billion from the world’s leading investors including NVentures (NVIDIA's venture arm), Google, Morgan Stanley's Counterpoint Global, Temasek, Eni, Mitsubishi Corp., Mitsui & Co. Ltd., Breakthrough Energy, and Khosla Ventures, among others. Has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a BS in Engineering Physics from the University of Nebraska, an MS in Nuclear Engineering and a PhD in Applied Plasma Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.