Before co-founding Electric Hydrogen, Raffi served as Chief Technology Officer at First Solar, the only U.S. solar manufacturer to withstand global competition from low-cost producers. Before that, he was founder and CEO of Touchdown Technologies. Raffi serves or has served on the boards of a number of companies including ESS Inc. (NYSE: GWH), Fulfil Solutions, and Covalent Metrologies. He has a long history of innovation and entrepreneurship in “hard-tech” ranging from automotive components to telecommunications subsystems. He holds over 20 U.S. issued patents.