Mr. Artinian has over 30 years of experience in domestic and international business development/management and specializes in creating profitable business growth by identifying and developing disruptive technologies in the energy sector. He successfully formed and increased the shareholder value of multiple start-up companies while previously serving as the Executive Vice President of Calnetix Technologies. From 2010 to 2016, Mr. Artinian was the Managing Director of Access Energy, a Calnetix subsidiary, where he was responsible for commercializing a complex waste heat recovery system in several applications (industrial, geothermal, marine, etc.) and putting together multiple global licensing deals to build a large installation base around the world. From 2005 to 2010, he was the Vice President of Business Development for Calnetix spin-off Direct Drive Systems (DDS), and played a major role in its acquisition by FMC Technologies in 2009. He holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mr. McMullen has over 35 years of experience in the magnetic devices field for high-speed equipment. Prior to joining Upwing Energy, he co-founded parent company Calnetix Technologies, where he served as the Chief Technical Officer and was the key subject matter expert on all of Calnetix’s technologies and integration capabilities. He played a major role in identifying, evaluating, developing, acquiring and selling IP for all Calnetix spin-off companies, including Upwing. While at Calnetix, he also led the formation of VYCON, another Calnetix subsidiary, where he served as its Chief Technical Officer from 2003 to 2013 and ramped up flywheel system production to 250 units per month. Prior to the establishment of Calnetix, Mr. McMullen was the Vice President of Research and Development at Avcon, Inc. He is the author of multiple patents and publications in high-speed turbomachinery and holds an MBA from the University of Southern California and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

Ms. Frey has 20 years of experience defining marketing and organizational strategies and evaluating emerging markets. She specializes in driving external communications efforts for early stage companies that effectively differentiate their market positioning, while building out and managing their internal operations infrastructure and talent to support organic growth. Before joining Upwing, Ms. Frey served as the Director of Marketing for Calnetix Technologies and its subsidiaries VYCON, Access Energy and Direct Drive Systems (DDS) from 2008 to 2016. She was instrumental in the sale and transition of DDS to FMC Technologies in 2009. Previously, Ms. Frey held multiple marketing, operations and communications management roles in the oil and gas industry, including positions with venture-capital backed ORYXE Energy, Gulf Oil, Conocophillips, Tosco and Mobil Oil. Ms. Frey holds an MBA from California State University, Long Beach and a B.A. in Public Relations from the University of Georgia.

Dr. Chen has over 25 years of experience in engineering and technology management. Dr. Chen has returned to Upwing after spending five years as the Vice President of Engineering and CO2 at Energy Recovery, Inc.  Previously, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Upwing, where he created technology strategies and built the engineering organization at the company’s outset.  Prior to that he served as the Senior Technology Manager for Halliburton, where he managed new product development and sustaining engineering.  Dr. Chen also served as the Vice President of Engineering for China National Petroleum Corporation USA and spent 17 years at Schlumberger advancing from an individual technical contributor to Technology Manager, managing global organizations. He is the author of over 50 patents and multiple publications and holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University.

Mr. Biddick has 15 years of experience in product development and project management. Prior to joining Upwing, he was the Project Manager for Integrated Completions at Schlumberger, where he was responsible for managing mechanical and electrical engineering, manufacturing and supply chain teams in the U.S. and Europe and developing reservoir monitoring and flow control technology into the first fully electric integrated downhole system. Previously at Schlumberger, he was the Technical Champion for Core Completions in Asia and the Business Development Manager, Completions for Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines. Prior to that, Mr. Biddick spent 7 years on Schlumberger’s Completions Team in Houston, advancing from Design Engineer to Project Manager to Team Lead. He is the author of multiple patents and holds a B.S in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Platteville.

Mr. Singh has 24 years of global experience in managing finance and initiating process improvements within manufacturing and service organizations. Before joining Upwing, he was the Controller at Royal Truck Body, a business unit of the SHYFT Group, where he managed the finance department and all internal and external stakeholders, implemented internal control policies and procedures and executed an operational KPI matrix that is now deployed across all SHYFT business units. Prior to that, Mr. Singh worked at ATPI Voyager as the Head of Finance, in charge of overseeing successful integration of a newly acquired business, rolling out new processes in relation to pricing models and developing P&L’s by state and business units. He holds a Bachelor of Business with a focus on Accounting and Commercial Law from Swinburne University, Melbourne.