Team

The people building TaiSan.

Battery scientists, manufacturing engineers, polymer chemists and operators — assembled to ship cells, not slides.

Sanzhar Taizhan

Founder & CEO

Former Jaguar Land Rover, Vertical Aerospace, and Faraday Institution battery scientist. Launched and led teams to SpaceX Hyperloop competition finals. Forbes 30 Under 30.

Ainur Zhumasheva

HR & COO

Former JP Morgan. Managed £50M.

Elena Vavriniuk

Technical Leader

10+ years in battery manufacturing. Former Nornickel and Happy Electron.

Ella Ramage

Polymer Scientist

Graduate of Cambridge University.

Orazaly Sultan-Akhmetov

Energy Storage Engineer

5+ years experience in battery manufacturing.

Raqeeb Rabbani

Lab Manager & Data Analyst

Gerard Calamba

Business & Strategy

Former King's Investment Fund and Single Family Office investor.

Atabek Zakirov

Business & Strategy

Expert in management.

Board & Advisors

Industry veterans backing the build.

Chairman

Tony Harper

Chairman

Former Head of R&D at Jaguar Land Rover and director at the Faraday Battery Challenge.

Directors

Deepak Pitrola

Director

Former Lead Battery Engineer at Jaguar Land Rover. Currently Head of Propulsions at Rivian.

Anna Teyssot

Director

Former Alliance Ventures (Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi), ex-CSO of Verkor, ex-Renault. Co-Founder at Exergon.

Jonas Nordlund

Director

Former Chairman of Heap Carsharing, Consultant at Deloitte. Sustainable Investor at InnoEnergy.

Mike Doswell

Director

Ex-Strategic Investments team at BGC Partners, LSE. Co-Founder of TSP Ventures.

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