Management Team
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Said Al-Hallaj, Co-Founder, Chairman/CEO
Said Al-Hallaj is the co-inventor of AllCell’s PCM technology and a world-renowned expert in thermal management of lithium-ion batteries. He possesses 20 years of experience in renewable energy research and development (with a focus on thermal management and electrochemical engineering of lithium-ion batteries) and is an adjunct professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
Said’s research ranges from the design and optimization of renewable energy systems to the use of advanced battery and fuel cell systems in electric vehicles and has been published 32 times in peer reviewed journals. Additionally, he has been a featured speaker at over 25 alternative energy and battery conferences and has three registered patents.
Said holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in chemical engineering from the Jordan University of Science and Technology.
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Karen Orlich, COO/CFO
Karen Orlich has over 15 years of experience in business development, marketing, and finance. The majority of her career has been dedicated to the financial services industry, primarily in corporate banking, with LaSalle Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and GE Capital.
Karen most recently served as Director of Sales for a Chicago-based marketing services firm before founding her own consulting company, Apex Business Consulting, in 2007. Apex advises small to mid-sized businesses on sales development, marketing, financial planning, and general operations.
Karen received a BA in Financial Administration from Michigan State University.
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J. Robert Selman – Co-Founder/Senior Technical Advisor
Rob Selman is the co-inventor of AllCell’s PCM technology and a Senior Technical advisor to AllCell. He has over 30 years of experience in battery and fuel cell research and development, and the global commercialization of these technologies.
Rob has been involved in electrochemical engineering of batteries and fuel cells at Argonne National Laboratory, the University of California Lawrence Berkeley Lab, and the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). He has written over 135 journal papers and has six patents, among which are the basic patents for phase change material in Li-ion batteries (developed together with Said Al-Hallaj). In addition to his work at AllCell, Rob is a Distinguished Research Professor in chemical engineering at IIT. He won the Electrochemical Society’s Energy Technology Award in 2002.
Rob holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California Berkeley, an M.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin Madison, and is an alumnus of the Technological University Delft in the Netherlands.
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