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SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR ON BATTERIES, BALANCE, AND HOW SHE BUILT A GLOBAL BUSINESS IN CONNECTICUT

As the demand for electric vehicles, consumer electronics, and grid energy storage systems continues to grow, so does the demand for safer, cheaper, high-performing lithium-ion batteries, which power most of these devices. The problem? Lithium-ion batteries are expensive to produce, have a history of exploding—one merely has to Google “Samsung phones exploding on planes” for more on that front—and have less capacity to store energy than do fossil fuels. Dr. Christina Lampe-Önnerud, CEO and founder of Cadenza Innovation, is solving these challenges and more. Her company, in which CI is an investor, has patented a battery architecture that is safer than existing designs, creates greater energy output, and is cheaper to produce. CI caught up with Christina recently to learn more about her company and her experience running a global business right here in Connecticut.

Lampe-Önnerud on the board of lithium producers

The Chairman of the Board describes Christina Lampe-Önnerud as a “respected business leader and researcher in energy storage, with deep expertise in the development of lithium batteries for electric vehicles, energy storage in electricity grids, portable electronics and industrial applications”.

Behold the era of the ‘super battery’

China’s BAK and US new energy firm Cadenza to construct a battery production line in the Shenzhen industrial park.

Christina Lampe-Onnerud at World Ecomomic Forum Global Future Council In Dubai – Moving from Thought Leadership to System Leadership

Christina Lampe-Onnerud at World Ecomomic Forum Global Future Council In Dubai

Christina Lampe-Onnerud Featured in CERC “Choose Connecticut” Promotional Video

Cadenza Innovation CEO Christina Lampe-Onnerud is featured in the Connecticut Economic Resource Center’s new Choose Connecticut promotional video, highlighting the state’s great environment for technology entrepreneurs.

Profiles in Connecticut innovation: High-energy Cadenza makes power storage more efficient

As befits the head of a company advancing ion-lithium battery technology, Dr. Christina Lampe-Onnerud, founder and CEO of Cadenza Innovation, exudes positive energy. She terms the seven-year startup, whose “Collaboration Center” is in Bethel, as a “think tank-like company with an execution track record” .

Calgary’s Energy Disruptors conference imagines future for an industry at a crossroads

The second annual Energy Disruptors conference is being staged in a province that has for years struggled with an economic downturn – and where new pipelines and expanded oil and gas infrastructure are widely viewed as the solutions. It is also taking place against the backdrop of a federal election campaign in which both climate change and the expansion of Alberta’s oil sands are significant issues.

Lady Business: Scandinavian gender utopias and International Women’s Day lip-service

That’s from my second feature in the March/April issue of Inc., a profile of Christina Lampe-Onnerud, a Swedish scientist and American serial entrepreneur who’s spent decades trying to build better batteries for the computers and cars and residential grids that we all depend on:

Charging Ahead

Lithium Ion Batteries were created in the 1970’s, long before smartphones or Teslas, yet today they power these devises and many other parts of our modern lives.  Lithium-ion batteries are essential to our lives and businesses- but struggle to keep up with modern demands.  Inside the race  to build a better battery.  

Christina Lampe-Onnerud lives in motion.  Whether she’s whisking visitors through her beige offices and “dry room” laboratories, scribbling an impromptu industry analysis on a whiteboard, or just grabbing the nearest can of Coke to help a visitor visualize her companies technology, the founder and CEO of Cadenza Innovation exudes energy, even in the most prosaic settings.