Konstantin Solodovnikov
Chief Executive Officer
Konstantin Solodovnikov is the Chief Executive Officer of Innolith. He brings 25 years of experience in international business development, sales and marketing having held leading management positions across a number of multibillion mining and agro commodities trading businesses in Switzerland, Cyprus, Latvia and Russia.
Konstantin has an MBA from Chicago Booth School of Business, following a BA in Business Administration from the University of Brighton.
Florian Wolf
Chief Financial Officer
Florian Wolf is the Chief Financial Officer of Innolith. Having spent fourteen years in Investment Banking in London, Florian brings deep sector expertise in the electric vehicle ecosystem and a wealth of experience in corporate finance to Innolith.
Prior to joining Innolith, Florian was an Executive Director within J.P. Morgan’s Diversified Industries Investment Banking team. His sector focus was on origination and execution of complex corporate finance transactions (including IPO, SPAC, Private Capital, Debt and M&A) for Automotive clients with a particular focus on the electric vehicles’ ecosystem as Head of Electric Vehicles EMEA. Prior to this role, Florian held the position of Vice President within Barclays’ Industrial Investment Banking team. He started his career at Dresdner Kleinwort in London and New York. Over the course of his professional career, Florian has advised clients on more than €50bn of transformative corporate finance transactions.
Florian holds a Diplom Kaufmann degree in Business Administration from University of Mannheim, Germany.
Dr. Laurent Zinck
Managing Director Germany, Chief Scientist
Laurent Zinck has over 18 years’ of experience in research and development of lithium batteries and is the specialist for inorganic liquid electrolyte systems for rechargeable lithium batteries. His work has been dedicated to new concepts of inorganic nonflammable lithium battery chemistries.
Laurent is Chief Scientist for the international team responsible for Innolith’s breakthrough battery technology and Managing Director of Innolith’s R&D laboratory and pilot production in Germany. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Innolith AG.
After earning his engineering degree from the University of Strasbourg, Laurent completed a doctorate in electrochemistry at the University of Witten-Herdecke for his work with lithium-ion batteries. This doctorate focused on rechargeable devices that utilize inorganic components which would much safer and longer lasting than previously available. This research led directly to the first non-flammable lithium accumulator based on inorganic electrolyte, a technology that has now reached production readiness.
Laurent has continued his fundamental research into electrochemistry and, together with his team, works continuously to improve Innolith’s technology further. He has invented numerous patented technologies.
Breakthough innovations:
First lithium-ion chemistry using inorganic electrolyte and showing stable cycling behavior (2007)
Introduction of 3D-electrode design to allow cost-efficient large-scale production (2013)
Dominik Rehbock
Strategy Director
Dominik Rehbock is Strategy Director at Innolith and responsible for strategy development & implementation.
Prior to joining Innolith, Dominik worked for the international consulting firm Bain & Company in Zurich. His focus was on the development of business & expansion strategies for high-tech companies and industrial goods companies. Additionally he was part of the Bain Private Equity Group, in which he carried out several post-acquisition & value creation plan projects and market analysis for international private equity funds.
Dominik holds an engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (Master of Science ETHZ in mechanical engineering).
Anna Sergeenko
Head of Accounting & Reporting
Anna Sergeenko is Innolith’s Head of Accounting and Reporting and joined the company in October 2021. Anna leads the financial reporting function of the Innolith Group where she oversees the optimisation of accounting processes and implements controls to ensure a fair consolidated financial statement for the Group. Anna has more than 20 years’ experience in accounting, financial reporting, consolidation and ERP implementation and has worked across commodity trading, service, logistic, retail and audit companies. For the past 13 years Anna has worked with one of the leading Swiss energy trading companies where she provided professional support to the management of the company to set up accounting, tax and financial reporting processes, the implementation of SAP-based ERP system and to develop internal control systems. Anna is certified as a Chief Accountant by the Moscow center of Prof. Sheremet and holds a BA Diploma in Accounting, Financial Reporting, Audit & Financial Analysis of Moscow University of Consumer Cooperatives.
Markus Borck
Managing Director Germany, Chief Engineer
Markus Borck has over 18 years’ of experience in battery engineering, battery formation and testing, cell design and application related evaluation for rechargeable lithium batteries.
A co-inventor of many of the technological breakthroughs in Innolith’s products, Markus serves as Chief Engineer and Managing Director of Innolith’s R&D laboratory and pilot production in Germany. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Innolith AG.
Markus’ experience includes cell design, module design including electrical and thermal management. He was defining the first large format cell based on the Innolith Technology and has successfully transferred latest R&D results into new cell generations with improved performance. With an electrical engineering degree from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Markus has wide-ranging experience in battery applications, primarily lithium-ion and lithium-ion polymer systems. His previous roles included management of battery test department, development of new battery concepts and sample production for large format cells.
Breakthrough innovations:
First large format cell design (2009)
First certified product based on Innolith electrochemistry (2013)
First demonstrator for grid tie applications (2014)
First 1 MWh-System for frequency regulation based on the latest cell and module design went into operation (2017)
Carrie Lin
Chief Representative for China
Carrie joined Innolith in 2019 as the company’s Chief Representative for China, where she leads Innolith’s sales and marketing in the country. Prior to joining the company, Carrie worked as the National Executive for General Electric’s Grid Solutions.
Carrie brings over two decades of experience in senior sales and marketing roles within China. In addition to working with General Electric, she served as the Chief Executive Officer at Landis+Gyr, overseeing a leading energy management and smart grid company.
Carrie areas of expertise include new market development and policy advocacy. She obtained a B. Eng. In electrical engineering at the Tsing Hua University in Beijing, China, and later went on to study Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba in Canada.
Stefan Häseli
Product Director
Stefan Häseli is the Product Director at Innolith. He brings 23 years of experience working on and leading projects in the energy industry in Switzerland, Canada and China.
Prior to joining Innolith, Häseli defined and introduced the Product Manager function at the Swiss subsidiary of General Electric. During his time at GE, Häseli led the supply chain during the start-up phase of a new production site in China and led a cross-factory project aiming at business process standardisation.
Häseli has an MBA from FHBB in Switzerland, following a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering from FHBW.
Stephane Rogazy
Director Supply Chain
Stephane heads up supply chain management and logistics for Innolith. He oversees technical and commercial negotiations and the management of supplier contracts. Stephane was previously SVP Operations and SVP Supply Chain at battery manufacturer Alevo during a four year period.
Prior to his career in the battery industry, Stephane worked with Preziontechnik AG, a component supplier in the automotive and construction industries, where he rose from Continuous Improvement Manager to CEO. Other career experience also includes Altran Technologies AG and Volvo Powertrain North America.
Stephane holds an Executive MBA from IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland, a Masters Degree in Technology and Innovation Management from EM, Lyon, Franc and an engineering degree from ECAM, Lyon, France.
Nicole Roth
Director of Sales
Nicole Roth is Innolith’s Director of Sales and joined the company following a series of senior commercial roles in the automotive sector. She is responsible for Innolith’s engagement with customers and partners in the automotive and energy sectors.
Nicole has worked extensively throughout the automotive sector with roles that have included senior account management with A123 Systems, business development with Continental Automotive and product marketing for Renault Deutschland.
Following study at Cooperative State University DHBW Stuttgart, Germany, Nicole received a Diplom-Betriebswirt in Business Administration. She then went on to receive an MBA from ESB Reutlingen.
