Martin Klein

Marty Klein is an internationally recognized expert in the battery-fuel cell field with over 40 years of experience as an engineer-entrepreneur. He founded EEI in 1992 to develop and commercialize a novel concept for bipolar nickel-metal hydride batteries and has managed the technical and business direction of the company since inception. In 1970, Marty co-founded Energy Research Corporation (now Fuel Cell Energy; NASDAQ:FCEL) and served as Executive Vice President through 1990, and Director through 1992. During his tenure at ERC, the company grew from a start-up to a publicly traded company with 140 employees and sales of $13 million per year and became internationally recognized for the research and development of advanced batteries and fuel cells. Marty directed all battery activities at ERC and contributed to a number of fuel cell projects. He was responsible for engineering management, international licenses and joint ventures covering a broad range of battery chemistries including silver-zinc, nickel-zinc, nickel-cadmium, nickel-hydrogen, silver-hydrogen, zinc-oxygen, and zinc-bromine rechargeable batteries. Prior to ERC, Marty held positions in the battery field at U.S. Army Signal Corps, Yardney Electric Corp., Electrochimica Corp., and Electro Optical Systems. He has served as a visiting scholar at Rutgers University and as a volunteer member of the Rutgers Battery and Electrochemical Engineering Laboratory. He has authored and coauthored numerous papers, articles and reports and has contributed to three books on battery technology. He is the inventor/co-inventor of 18 U.S. patents and numerous companion foreign patents in the field of advanced electrochemical systems. He holds a degree in chemical engineering.