Yutaka Wakai

Yutaka has thirty years of experience scaling battery production from early stage to mass production at Panasonic, A123, Zeon, QuantumScape and 24M. He has served as Chief Engineer, Principal Engineer, and a Research Fellow. Prior to Blue Current, he was the Senior Director of Process Engineering at Desktop Metal where he developed the company’s metal 3D printer media for mass production. Before that, he was the Senior Director of Process Engineering at 24M technologies and built the manufacturing plan and selected machines for volume production. He has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Maizuru College of Technology and a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in Production System Engineering from Toyohashi University of Technology.