A Vision to Make a Difference...

Joe leads the Quidnet team in its mission to revolutionize energy storage and facilitate the transition to a zero-carbon grid. As a child, Joe traveled around the world with his parents who worked for large energy companies. That experience inspired his life-long commitment to game-changing energy innovation. He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta, going on to work as an energy consultant across the globe prior to entering Harvard Business School to earn his M.B.A. Following a successful run with a battery storage company that he helped grow, Joe was introduced to Quidnet and became its Chief Executive Officer.

Howard oversees of the technology development of Quidnet’s Geomechanical Pumped Storage solution. He grew up in San Antonio, Texas and attended Rice University in Houston where he earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry. He went on to teach at Rice and direct the University’s Carbon Nano Technology Lab. As part of this program, Dr. Schmidt worked with private sector companies in chemical battery storage. That work honed his understanding of the challenges facing chemical batteries as grid-scale storage. Combined with his experience in petroleum geology, he developed Geomechanical Pumped Storage technology with Quidnet co-founder Aaron Mandell to establish the company in 2013.

David is responsible for overseeing Quidnet corporate and project operations to advance the company’s North American demonstration projects toward widescale commercialization. He grew up in a mining town in France along the Belgium border, where his grand-father worked in the coal mines. With a deep curiosity about the world and about energy, David attended the French School of Mines, where he earned his Master of Earth sciences and Energy. He then earned a Master of Sciences in Management from the Stanford University. As a professional, David worked all over the world overseeing the development of billion-dollar subsurface energy projects, then shifted to structure corporate innovation in transitioning oil and gas companies toward renewables and power. With his extensive experience and ability to advance and deploy new technologies, he is now focused on making Quidnet Energy a leader in energy storage.

Bunker joined Quidnet in January 2021 after more than two decades of directing engineering and product development for Schlumberger, a global leader in drilling, production, and processing technology for the energy industry. He earned his B.S. in physics from Texas A & M University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering – robotics  from the University of Texas at Austin.

Scott is an experienced project manager with expertise in energy storage as well as petroleum engineering and geology. Scott has over a decade of engineering management experience, spanning drilling, completions, and surface facility construction across North America. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas and earned an B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.

Henry has led a variety of complex , resource extraction, processing, and refining, projects in the oil and gas sectors. Prior to joining Quidnet, Henry managed drillings and completions operations for Chevron across the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. He earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta and an M.B.A. from the University of Cambridge.

Cliff is responsible for geologic siting and project development, including working with regulatory agencies to permit individual projects and develop permitting processes. He previously worked as an exploration geologist for the Hunt Oil Company. He earned a B.S. in Geology from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and an M.S. in Geophysics from Southern Methodist University.

Wilson heads up Quidnet’s data analytics team to process the large amounts of data generated from the field operations and extract critical insights to enhance storage performance. Prior to joining Quidnet, Wilson founded Aatonomy, a technology firm that developed and deployed sensing infrastructure for self-driving vehicles. He earned bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University.