What We're About
Our Culture: The Uplift Way
- People first: A great workplace starts with awesome colleagues. A great workplace persists by taking care of ourselves and our colleagues as humans. We strive to recruit and empower highly capable and diverse teams because brilliance happens when varied perspectives converge on tough problems.
- Always raising the bar: We take pride in delighting our customers and partners. To be the best team we can be, we value constructively disagreeing, then committing, and adapting as needed. In our continuous pursuit of excellence, we celebrate successes and normalize good-faith stumbles along the way.
- Bias towards action: In the race against climate change, we weigh risks of action against risks of inaction. Many decisions are reversible and do not need exhaustive prior study. We encourage calculated risk taking.
Team
Daniel Nothaft, CEO
Peilong Lu, Staff Electrochemical Engineer
Daniel Nothaft, CEO
Geochemist with expertise in nickel-bearing magnesium silicate rocks and R&D management.
Ph.D. Geology,
University of Colorado Boulder
Kaveh Issapour, COO
Peilong Lu, Staff Electrochemical Engineer
Daniel Nothaft, CEO
Investment professional and computer scientist with laboratory experience in photovoltaics and operations experience in field services companies.
B.S. Computer Science, Columbia University
Peilong Lu, Staff Electrochemical Engineer
Peilong Lu, Staff Electrochemical Engineer
Peilong Lu, Staff Electrochemical Engineer
Electrochemical researcher with expertise in engineering practical solutions for waste valorization and industrial decarbonization.
Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
JB Liessmann, Senior Process Engineer
Peilong Lu, Staff Electrochemical Engineer
Peilong Lu, Staff Electrochemical Engineer
Chemical engineer with experience in battery recycling, acid-leach mining operations, electrochemistry, and hydrometallurgy.
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno
Han Zong, Staff Chemical Engineer
Chemical engineer specializing in innovative process development and scale-up, with expertise in heterogeneous catalysis, plastic waste upcycling, carbon capture and utilization, and critical material recovery.
Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University
Keerthana Goskonda, Chemical Engineer
Keerthana Goskonda, Chemical Engineer
Chemical engineer with hands-on experience in mineral processing, ICP-MS analysis, analytical techniques and process improvement.
M.S. Chemical and Biochemical Engineering,
UMBC