Meet the Team
Founder, Inventor, President, CTO
Dr. Tony Iacovelli, M.D.
Tony has enjoyed a dual career both as an emergency room physician and 20 years in renewable energy research and development with the NextPower design as the latest in a line of profound innovations. He has invented and internationally patented a novel family of fuel cells that have 14 times the power density of the industry standard. Previously, he has developed a medical device that helps make surgery faster and safer as well as another device that can be used for the emergency treatment of children. He studied medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine and biology at Syracuse University.
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Board of Directors
Maureen Stancik Boyce, PhD
Maureen is a Managing Partner and co-founder at Good Growth Capital. Maureen’s 30+ years of start-up and strategic leadership experience includes serving as co-founder and COO of Ignition Ventures, where she helped start companies out of science labs at MIT, Harvard, Cambridge, and Columbia. Maureen started her strategy career at Bain & Co as a consultant and team leader, in both the Boston and Sydney offices, then became an Associate Partner at IBM’s strategy practice leading Global Strategy Thought Leadership for four industries.
Maureen has been a Mentor for MIT’s Sandbox Innovation accelerator since its launch in January 2016 and has been a part-time Consultant to Sandbox to help with its own growth strategy as it grew from 40 startups a year to 400+ startups each semester. She is an active member of MIT’s Angel community and has been a lecturer at MIT. Maureen won the highest award for MIT alumni for her service to the Institute, the Great Dome Award. She serves as a board member for Eden GeoTech, Aralez Bio, and Blue Ocean Gear in addition to being an observer at Liminal Insights, Radical Plastics and Robigo.
Maureen has served in the US Peace Corps in Fiji, designing and helping to build small water systems as a civil engineer. Maureen has traveled to 60 countries and lived in four, including more than seven years of international work experience in Asia. Maureen received her BS in Civil Engineering, magna cum laude, from Carnegie Mellon, an MBA from MIT Sloan School and a MS and PhD in Engineering from MIT.
Investor, Technical Advisory Board
Dr. Khalid Hamied
Dr. Hamied spent over 25 years working in Wireless and Mobile Communications, Machine Learning, and Statistical Analysis. He was the Head of R&D of the Plan, Build, and Optimize Product Development Unit at Ericsson, where he directed the development for planning and optimizing 4th generation wireless networks and Multi-Technology Self Organizing Networks. Before his role at Ericsson, he was the President and Chief Technology Officer of Optimi Corporation and one of its founders in 2003. Optimi, a leading supplier of advanced planning, optimization, and management solutions for GSM, UMTS, and LTE wireless networks, was acquired by Ericsson. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1994 from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Member, Board of Directors, Board of Advisors
Tom Jones
As an advisor to NextPower360, Tom adds extensive experience helping early stage companies grow from startup to successful exit. As an early employee at a string of successful tech companies, Tom will help guide NextPower360 through early growth stages and set the foundation for future hypergrowth. Tom complements the founders with a wealth of experience in sales, marketing, partnerships, product management, and go-to-market strategy. Tom is a passionate believer in NextPower360's mission to commercialize innovative electric generators and motors that will significantly reduce green-house gas emissions. Tom also worked in the US Federal Government with extensive experience in government grants and grant applications.
Technical Advisory Board
Dr. Norm Shilling, D.Sc.
Prior to entering private consulting practice, Dr. Norman Shilling was the Senior Product Manager for General Electric (GE) Energy’s gasification product line, responsible for developing policy and regulatory strategies and providing advocacy in Washington and international forums on solutions for greenhouse gases. Dr. Shilling’s experience in environmental and utility power generation includes serving as Product Line Leader for gas turbines, focusing on applications involving unconventional fuels, integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC), and the integration of power production with chemical refinery plants and steel mills. He previously served as Program Manager for low-emissions locomotive diesel development and as Environmental Systems Engineering Manager at GE’s Research Center, collaborating with many GE businesses on pollution prevention and energy efficiency initiatives. Dr. Shilling holds an M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and B.S. and D.Sc. degrees from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has taught in the graduate engineering school at Penn State University and is a licensed Professional Engineer.