Emily comes to Emrgy from AMT, Inc., where she managed $10+ million in R&D contracts to build new technologies for energy, military and transportation over 6 years. Since founding Emrgy, Emily has secured $1.6 million in grant funding, become the first company inducted into the City of Atlanta's Innovation Center, received the first ever equity investment from Atlanta's Development Authority, and won a VC-backed accelerator out of 600 applicants.

Curtis Watkins comes to Emrgy from the Emerging Technology Office at Duke Energy, where he led testing and verifying new technologies that have potential to become part of a new emerging energy portfolio. Prior to joining Duke 2007, Curtis grew a venture-backed startup company to almost 30 employees and received a successful exit in 2007. Curtis was named by the Charlotte Business Journal top ‘Forty Under Forty’ for 2013.

Thorsten Stoesser, Ph.D brings expertise in experimental and computational fluid mechanics and in particular its application to stream energy and to environmentally-friendly very low head hydropower. Thorsten has published numerous papers on this subject and is currently managing $1.6 Million in research grants. Thorsten has participated in the design of several hydropower schemes in the US, UK and Germany, as well as in Pakistan and Brazil.