Celina Mikolajczak

Celina leads the battery engineering team at Lyten in commercializing and manufacturing the first North American-based lithium-sulfur cell technology at scale. Having been a battery technology executive at some of the top companies in the industry, such as Tesla, Panasonic, Uber, and Quantumscape, Celina has unparalleled experience and knowledge in the highly sophisticated areas of material engineering, cell engineering, manufacturing engineering, manufacturing operations, supply chain, and battery regulatory strategy that work in concert to deliver commercially viable, high-quality, and qualified battery architectures for the automotive, aerospace, micromobility, and consumer electronics sectors. As an expert in the field of new battery technology, Celina has contributed to dozens of papers and delivered numerous speeches in the automotive, battery, and clean tech industries. She is currently a member of multiple Advisory Boards in the battery field and is the “Manufacturing & Infrastructure Committee Chair” at the Li-Bridge Initiative. She was most recently named to Business Insider’s “2022 Top 100 People Transforming Business” list and was named by the Silicon Valley Business Journal as one of its “Women of Influence” for 2022. In 2020, Celina was also named to Automotive News’ “100 Leading Women in North America”.