OPEN SV Chai & Gup Shup with Mujeeb Ijaz and Faysal Sohail

Mujeeb Ijaz, is the founder & CEO of ONE.ai., the hottest battery technology startup based out of Michigan. ONE.ai has demonstrated a proof-of-concept battery that powered Tesla Model S, 752 miles without recharging.

Mujeeb is a battery systems engineer with over 30 years of experience in the development of electric vehicles and battery systems technologies. Mujeeb led teams at Ford Motor Co., where he developed Ford’s Edge with HySeries Drive, the Ford Fusion Hydrogen 999 that set a land speed record at Bonneville in 2007, and the Chrysler ENVI project. He was president of A123’s Venture Technologies unit, where he and his team led the development of Li-Ion battery solutions for electric vehicles, and more recently, a senior director at Apple, where he developed novel energy storage solutions. Mujeeb holds 31 U.S. patents in the field of battery technology and energy management systems.

Faysal Sohail is the Managing Director at Presidio Partners

Faysal Sohail became a venture investor in 2002 after seventeen years of experience as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. He has led several investments in technology and energy space, including robotics, information security, energy, semiconductors and software.