Chris Haase

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Dr. Chris Haase is the Founder, President, and CEO of Gadolyn, Inc., a DARPA-backed, R&D 100 Award-winning company pioneering a generational leap in alloy production. Gadolyn’s proprietary platform directly co-reduces rare-earth and transition-metal oxides into finished alloys in a single step, delivering more than 95% lower costs, over 95%. Chris brings more than 25 years of executive leadership across critical materials, energy, defense and innovation. He is a Department of Energy Oppenheimer Fellow and a former Department of Defense Fellow at the University of Chicago. As Director of the DOE Critical Materials Institute at Ames National Laboratory, he led the $250M innovation hub spanning national laboratories, universities, and industry to mitigate supply-chain risk for clean energy and national security. He also has extensive experience in corporate venture capital and technology commercialization. At Aramco Ventures, Chris directed investments in hydrogen, energy-transition mat

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