Our Team — Volterra Technologies Leadership & Advisory Board

Board of Directors

Established 2020. Elected annually at the AGM.

The Volterra Board of Directors provides governance and strategic oversight as the company scales from pilot to commercial deployment. Our enabling legislation allows up to five directors.

Ian B. McAvoy

Co-Founder · Chairman & Director

Co-Founder, Chair & CEO of Volterra and founder of its IP holding company, VEMX Technologies. A three-time cleantech founder with over three decades in transportation and technology — including two decades as a transit and municipal executive operator across the UK and California. Architect of the EVCare™ platform; previously co-founded GreenPower Motor Company (President & Board Director) and Thomson Power.

Peter McCree

Independent Director

Independent director bringing extensive experience in technology commercialisation, corporate governance, and enterprise software markets. Provides independent board oversight and strategic counsel across Volterra’s commercial and capital activities.

John L. Parker

Director

Director bringing strategic and financial expertise to the Volterra board. Joined in Q4 2024 and contributes governance experience and network across the cleantech and technology investment community as Volterra executes its seed round and commercial expansion.

Founder & CEO

Built by someone who's been on both sides of the problem.

Ian McAvoy

Co-Founder, Chair & CEO

Three-Time Founder Fleet Electrification Corporate Strategy Transit Operations

Ian McAvoy is the Co-Founder, Chair, and CEO of Volterra Technologies and founder of its IP holding company, VEMX Technologies Inc. A three-time cleantech founder, he brings more than three decades of experience across transportation and technology — including two decades as an executive operator inside municipal and transit organizations in both the United Kingdom and California.

Volterra is his third venture. His first, GreenPower Motor Company — which he co-founded and served as President and Board Director before it was taken public — established his track record in electric mobility. His second, Thomson Power, developed a novel driver-focused energy-efficiency platform. Before co-founding GreenPower, he spent much of his career inside public transit: at the San Mateo County Transit District, Caltrain, and the San Mateo County Transportation Authority he held a wide infrastructure remit — strategy, planning, engineering, construction, maintenance, real estate, and project finance — as Chief Development Officer. Earlier UK municipal roles, including the London Borough of Barnet, gave him a transatlantic view of how fleets are actually run.

Educated in Edinburgh, Scotland, Ian today divides his time between California and British Columbia. EVCare™ integrates data mining, predictive analytics, and AI-driven telemetry — linking real-world EV performance data to cloud-based management systems and giving fleet operators real-time, actionable insight to extend battery life and lower operating costs. It is the platform he was uniquely positioned to build: designed from inside the problem, not around it.

Career Background

GreenPower Motor Company Thomson Power Inc. SamTrans · Caltrain · SMCTA London Borough of Barnet VEMX Technologies EVIM Strategies

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Executive Leadership

The leadership driving EVCare™ from platform to market.

Volterra's leadership pairs deep technical and product expertise with the finance, operations, intellectual property, and business development experience required to scale a complex B2B platform — and to turn the EVCare™ IP portfolio into durable commercial advantage.

Nima Evans

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Nima Evans joined Volterra as a late-stage co-founder in 2023, brought in by Ian McAvoy to deepen the company's expertise in data analytics and software engineering. Assuming the CTO chair, he leads all technology strategy and platform architecture for EVCare™ — responsible for the design and delivery of the three-layer intelligence stack, from CareStar™ cell-level sensing through to FitStar™ fleet fitness intelligence, ensuring EVCare™ performs at enterprise scale across complex transit agency environments.

Co-Founder Platform Architecture AI/ML Systems

Quinn Griesdale

Vice President, Product Development & Customer Experience

Quinn leads EVCare™ product strategy, roadmap, and user experience — translating the platform's complex electrochemical intelligence into intuitive, role-specific dashboards that fleet managers, maintenance supervisors, and transit executives can act on immediately. Quinn ensures every module delivers measurable value to the specific personas it serves.

Product Strategy UX & Roadmap Fleet Intelligence

Ian Winter

Fractional Chief Financial Officer

Ian Winter leads Volterra's financial strategy and discipline — overseeing financial modeling, planning, controls, and capital management as the company scales EVCare™ from pilot program to commercial deployment. As Fractional CFO, he bridges the technical delivery team with Volterra's commercial and investor-facing activities, ensuring financial execution matches the company's product and market ambitions.

Financial Strategy Capital Management Planning & Controls

Simon Kim

Interim Chief of Staff

Simon Kim leads corporate operations and drives execution of the CEO's strategic initiatives — aligning cross-functional priorities, operational cadence, and key programs to keep Volterra moving from plan to delivery. As Interim Chief of Staff, he turns strategic intent into coordinated action across the company. Simon also serves on Volterra's Advisory Board.

Corporate Operations Strategic Execution CEO Initiatives

Joel Goertz

Director, IP & Business Development

Joel Goertz leads Volterra's intellectual property strategy and business development — stewarding the EVCare™ IP portfolio and building the licensing, commercial agreements, and partnerships that convert technical depth into market position. He brings deep experience in IP, licensing, and commercialization.

IP & Licensing Business Development Commercialization

Delivery Team

The specialists who build and ship EVCare™.

Volterra's delivery team brings the specific disciplines required to take a complex battery intelligence platform from architecture to production — and keep it performing reliably across demanding transit agency deployments.

Rasmus Storjohann

Software Engineering Lead

Leads EVCare™ platform architecture and full-stack engineering. Responsible for the software infrastructure that turns complex electrochemical data streams into real-time actionable fleet intelligence, and for building the integrations required to connect EVCare™ to existing transit agency telematics and operations systems.

Platform Engineering

Jeremy Rodriguez

Battery Engineering Lead

Deep expertise in battery electrochemistry and diagnostic modelling. Ensures that EVCare™'s analytical models — from CareStar™ cell-level sensing through BattHealthScore™ synthesis — are grounded in real battery physics and continuously validated against empirical fleet data. The scientific backbone of EVCare™'s IP defensibility.

Battery Science

Srishti Jha

Sr. Program Development Manager / TPM

Technical Program Manager driving pilot delivery, agency onboarding, and cross-functional execution. The operational backbone of Volterra's commercial rollout — ensuring EVCare™ deployments across leading transit agencies and pipeline agencies deliver measurable results on schedule and within scope.

Program Delivery

Hemanth Reddy

Data Scientist

Applies data science and machine learning techniques to EVCare™’s battery intelligence platform. Develops the predictive models and analytical frameworks that power BattHealthScore™ and FitStar™ — turning raw electrochemical data into actionable health insights for fleet operators.

Data Science & AI

Munkhzul Nyamdorj

Data Pipeline Engineer

Designs and maintains the data pipeline infrastructure that moves battery telemetry from EV fleets into the EVCare™ intelligence platform. Ensures reliable, high-throughput ingestion of real-time vehicle data from diverse telematics and BMS sources across transit agency deployments.

Data Engineering

Roger Dcunha

Cloud Project Engineer

Leads cloud infrastructure design and deployment for the EVCare™ platform. Responsible for the scalable, secure cloud architecture that supports real-time battery health monitoring across multiple transit agency deployments simultaneously.

Cloud Infrastructure

Shivam Patidar

Data Platform Specialist

Intern contributing to EVCare™’s data platform — supporting pipeline development, data quality processes, and analytics infrastructure. Brings strong technical skills in data engineering and cloud platforms to Volterra’s growing engineering team.

Intern

Advisory Board

Domain expertise across every dimension of the opportunity.

Volterra's advisory board brings targeted expertise spanning battery engineering, software architecture, energy storage, data analytics, government relations, and cleantech strategy — providing strategic counsel as EVCare™ scales from pilot to commercial deployment across North America and beyond.

Geoff Crocker, P.Eng.

Professional Engineer

Battery Engineering Advisory

Former Chief Battery Engineer · Volterra Technologies

Geoff brings deep professional engineering expertise in battery systems to Volterra's advisory board. As the former Chief Battery Engineer, he retains a unique insider understanding of EVCare™'s technical architecture and provides ongoing advisory on battery engineering challenges, product validation, and IP development as the platform matures.

Kourosh Khajé

Battery Technology Advisory

Battery Failure Scientist & Energy Storage Lecturer · Lakeland College Canada · 20+ Years

Provides the academic battery science layer underpinning EVCare™'s IP defensibility. Research focus on AI/ML battery prognostics and early degradation detection is EVCare™'s technical architecture in published form — making Kourosh the peer-review equivalent that battery-focused investors and transit engineers require before trusting health assessment claims.

Jonathan Soper

ESS & Energy Market Advisory

Co-architect, Corvus ORCA Energy Storage System · Maritime & Industrial Battery Markets

Co-architect of the Corvus ORCA — one of the most widely deployed marine energy storage systems in the world. Jonathan bridges Volterra's transit fleet focus to the broader ESS landscape, including marine, port, and industrial battery systems that represent EVCare™'s longer-horizon adjacent market expansion.

Mark McLaughlin

SaaS Market Advisory

B2B SaaS Go-to-Market · Enterprise Software Commercialization

B2B SaaS commercialization expertise including enterprise sales motion, channel partnerships, and product-market fit execution. Advises on EVCare™'s go-to-market architecture — pricing, packaging, contract structures, and the customer success model required to scale recurring revenue across enterprise transit agency accounts.

Aida Tahiri, MBA, CGA

Advanced Data Analytics Advisory

VP Finance, Planning, Data & Analytics · Mattamy Homes · Apotex · Pitney Bowes

Enterprise data governance for EVCare™'s analytics and reporting layer. Ensures EVCare™'s dashboard and BI outputs meet the institutional data standards that transit agencies and their auditors require — bridging technical platform outputs with the business accountability requirements of large public-sector organizations.

John McPherson

Canadian & Government Market Advisory

Senior Manager, Vancouver Economic Commission · Architect, Project Greenlight

The key to the Canadian transit market. Project Greenlight — which John architects and manages — connects cleantech companies directly with regional transit authorities, utilities, and municipal partners for rapid pilot demonstrations. A near-decade trusted professional relationship with Ian McAvoy ensures this advisory role converts to real commercial pipeline.

Simon Kim

Industry & Market Advisory

EV & Cleantech Markets · Fleet Electrification Strategy

Real-time competitive and market intelligence for the EV fleet sector. Keeps EVCare™'s positioning, feature priorities, and pricing grounded in what the market is actually demanding. Simon's network across the North American EV and cleantech ecosystem provides early signals on competitive moves, procurement trends, and partnership opportunities.

Todd Bredo

Aviation Strategy Advisory

Electric Aviation & Fleet Decarbonization · Okanagan College

The AviationStar™ module advisor. BC's Harbour Air and magniX ecosystem make electric aviation a near-term adjacent market for EVCare™. Todd navigates the regulatory and operational requirements of aviation battery health monitoring — a market where battery performance standards are measured against the highest possible safety stakes.

Emerson Gallagher

Cleantech & Hydrogen Advisory

Technology Associate, Infinity Fuel Cell Technology · 27+ Years Cleantech · UBC

The hydrogen and fuel cell market bridge. As Volterra's IP portfolio expands into FCEV battery management, Emerson's 27 years across hydrogen, power electronics, and cleantech product development provides the adjacent market navigation capability needed to credibly address fuel cell fleet opportunities alongside battery-electric deployments.

Join the Team

We're building something that matters. Come build it with us.

Volterra is a focused team with a clear mission and a large market opportunity. We hire for depth, curiosity, and the ability to work at the intersection of hard science and real-world operations.

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Battery & Data Engineers

Electrochemical modelling, battery diagnostics, data pipeline engineering, and AI/ML for battery health prediction. If you understand batteries at the cell level and love turning that knowledge into software, we want to talk.

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Transit & Fleet Specialists

Fleet operations, transit agency experience, business development, and customer success. People who understand how transit agencies actually work — and can help EVCare™ become indispensable to them.

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Commercial & Capital

Enterprise sales, investor relations, partnerships, and strategic finance. As Volterra scales from pilot to production, we need commercial builders who can help grow a category-defining company.

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