“Philip Less­ner com­bines deep knowl­edge of capac­i­tor tech­nol­o­gy with prac­ti­cal expe­ri­ence of turn­ing cus­tomer require­ments into prod­ucts and trans­fer­ring tech­nol­o­gy into man­u­fac­tur­ing. His con­tri­bu­tion will help us sharp­en our prod­uct pri­or­i­ties and strength­en the basis for cus­tomer adop­tion and indus­tri­al partnerships.”

Oskar Säf­ström, inter­im CEO of Smoltek

Dr. Less­ner is already famil­iar with Smoltek’s car­bon nanofiber met­al-insu­la­tor-met­al (CNF-MIM) tech­nol­o­gy through the ear­li­er col­lab­o­ra­tion between Smoltek and Yageo. He will now pro­vide advice in his own capac­i­ty, rather than as a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Yageo. The assign­ment includes strate­gic and tech­ni­cal advice to Smoltek’s board, man­age­ment and tech­ni­cal team. Pri­or­i­ties include prod­uct strat­e­gy, cus­tomer require­ments, qual­i­fi­ca­tion con­sid­er­a­tions and industrialization.

“I have fol­lowed Smoltek’s CNF-MIM tech­nol­o­gy for sev­er­al years and look for­ward to con­tin­u­ing the col­lab­o­ra­tion. My focus will be on help­ing the team con­nect the tech­nol­o­gy’s capa­bil­i­ties with cus­tomer require­ments, prod­uct qual­i­fi­ca­tion and man­u­fac­tur­ing con­sid­er­a­tions as it pro­gress­es towards com­mer­cial applications.”

Dr. Philip Lessner

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Read the offi­cial press­re­lease: Smoltek strength­ens semi­con­duc­tor com­mer­cial­iza­tion with for­mer YAGEO CTO Philip Lessner