Zenzo Hashimoto, Chief Technology Officer

Zenzo Hashimoto is EnerDel's Chief Technology Officer. He has over 20 years of high-level technology development, operations, and manufacturing experience with leading Japanese manufacturing companies, where he developed lithium-ion battery and production process technologies. His experience includes lithium-ion production line start-up, process design, quality control, automation engineering, and production equipment design for Sony Energytech, Inc., Sony Corporation's battery division. From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Hashimoto was Chief Research Officer of Enerstruct, Inc., EnerDel's major technology partner, where he focused on development of high-rate lithium-ion battery technologies. Mr. Hashimoto was Technical Advisor in a subsidiary of ITOCHU Corporation, a significant investor in Ener1, Inc. and Ener1's partner in Enerstruct. There, he focused on design and manufacture of lithium-ion battery production lines.

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