Katie Gardner is a business and technical leader with a unique combination of mining, legal, and project finance experience. She served as Head of Product at Banyan Infrastructure, a ClimateTech SaaS platform specializing in sustainable infrastructure project finance, and she worked as an underground mine engineer at Newmont Mining Corporation's northern Nevada operations, with hands-on experience in deep shaft construction. Katie graduated from the Carey JD/MBA program at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Wharton School, and she holds a BS in Mining Engineering from the University of Kentucky. She is a professionally licensed mining engineer in the state of Nevada (ina) as well as a California Bar certified attorney. She brings the technical credibility and business acumen essential for scaling Terrament's underground gravity storage technology with her mining and legal experience.

Eric Chaves is a technical entrepreneur with 20 years experience spanning Architecture, Industrial Design, and Software Engineering. He was the co-founder of Antenna, a media-tech startup that reached millions and achieved a successful exit, he was a Founder Fellow at Newlab, and he was a member of the CEBIP accelerator at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Terrament's assigned IP, including two awarded U.S. patents for Modular Underground Gravity Storage and a pending patent for our Linear Drive Conveyance System, a key enabler for gravity storage scale.