Battery Innovation Built for the Real World

Jaymes Winters

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

CEO of Solidion Technology since 2024, with more than 15 years of chief-executive experience across oil and gas, telecommunications and retail, plus extensive M&A background. Previously Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nubia Brand International Corp., a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (NASDAQ | NUBI) from 2021 to 2024. He has directed and negotiated four private-equity-backed M&A transactions and taught business strategy, M&A and venture capital for over nine years as an adjunct professor at Portland State University. He is a graduate of Oregon State University with a degree in Business and a minor in economics.

Mark N. Schwartz

Lead Independent Director

Mark is an accomplished CEO, CFO, and board director with more than 36 years of leadership experience across the consumer, technology and healthcare industries. His career highlights include co-founding Bodega Latina Corporation, which grew into a $7 billion grocery chain and the largest Hispanic retailer in the U.S, leading the IPO of DD Group plc, and overseeing the sale of Bartell Drug Company to Rite Aid. Mark has served on over a dozen public and private company boards, including Starbucks Coffee Company. He received his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Claremont McKenna College in economics and political science and a Master of Business Administration, with honors, from Harvard Business School.

Dr. Bor Jang

Board Member

Dr. Jang co-founded Honeycomb Battery Company in 2015, AEC in 2012, Angstron Materials in 2007 and Global Graphene Group in 2016. He earned his Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science from MIT and formerly served as Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Wright State University. He was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge and was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Inventors in 2019. He has more than 800 patents to his credit and filed the world's first graphene patent application in 2002.

Karin-Joyce Tjon

Independent Board Member · Audit Committee Chair

Ms. Tjon has served as a director since the closing of the company's IPO. She has served as a director of Volcon, Inc. and Kaleyra, Inc. and previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Alorica, Inc., President and Chief Operating Officer of Scientific Games, and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Epiq Systems. Earlier, she held several C-level posts at Alvarez & Marsal, advising global clients on restructuring, planning, negotiations, audit and regulatory compliance. She holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a bachelor's degree in Organizational Behavior from Ohio University.

John Davis

Independent Board Member · Nominating & Governance Committee Chair

Since 2022, Mr. Davis has served as President of BTECH, Inc., a battery monitoring technology company. From 2021 to 2022, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Primet Precision Materials, a lithium battery cathode materials company. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Global Graphene Group and as Senior Vice President of Operations for BrightVolt, a solid-state lithium battery company. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and an M.B.A. from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Kimi L. Ellen, CPA

Independent Board Member

Kimi Ellen is an award-winning CEO, Managing Partner, CPA, QFE, and board member with extensive experience in forensic auditing, consulting, governance, strategic planning, and business growth. She has advised organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies and government entities and has led complex forensic engagements, including investigations involving collaboration with the FBI. Kimi is Co-Founder, Managing Partner, and CEO of Benford Brown & Associates, LLC, where she has helped grow the firm to nearly 50 professionals and quadrupled revenue over the last three years. She currently serves on several boards and advisory councils, including Mainstreet Legacy Partners, Nestment, Inc., Access Community Health Network, the AICPA Governing Council, NABA Inc., Diverse Organization of Firms, Government Accounting Standards Advisory Council, and the Illinois CPA Society. Her recent honors include being named among the 2025 50 Women to Watch for Boards, Forbes’ Top 200 CPAs in the U.S., and Forbes’ Top CPAs Best-In-State. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from the University of Illinois and is a licensed CPA in Illinois and New York.

Dante W. Robinson, CPA

Independent Board Member

Dante Robinson is a business and financial leader with more than three decades years of experience in the finance industry and audit function. He is qualified financial expert (QFE) serving on an Audit Committee including leadership roles as the Committee Chair and is a CPA. Dante leads regulatory oversight relationships and drives corporate and functional regulatory improvement. Dante developed and implemented innovative technology strategy resulting in the implementation of transformation technology increasing revenue stream. He has successfully created and scaled resilient and sustainable organization structures/ models that are prepared for changing market conditions. He continues to refine his board governance competencies through the NACD as a Board Leadership Fellow. Dante created, and directed the implementation of an innovative B2C transformation technology strategy resulting in reduced operational inefficiencies and increase customer efficiencies (faster customer deal closure) by a combined 80%, increased business flow 24% by volume, increased revenue by $3M in first year, lowering service costs, and established the foundation for new B2B technology. Dante serves as the Chief of Internal Affairs for State Compensation Insurance Fund for one of California’s largest workers compensation insurance company while leading teams from 60 - 200 individuals, reporting to the Corporate Board’s Audit Committee Chair following years as an executive, including the C-Suite, and reporting to the CEO.