Company
Terrament Team
Terrament's founders bring a rare combination of underground mining engineering, energy project finance, legal and business expertise, and decades of hardware and technical product leadership.
Katie Gardner | Co-Founder, CEO
Katie Gardner is a business leader with deep technical roots. Her broad expertise spans mining engineering, infrastructure, and law. She worked underground as a mine engineer at Newmont's Twin Creeks operation in northern Nevada, then served as Head of Product at Banyan Infrastructure, a ClimateTech SaaS platform specializing in sustainable infrastructure project finance. She holds a JD from Penn Law, an MBA from Wharton, and a Professional Engineer license in mining.
Eric Chaves | Founder, COO
Eric Chaves is a technical entrepreneur with 20 years of experience spanning architecture, industrial design, and software engineering. He co-founded Antenna, a media-tech startup that reached millions of users and achieved a successful exit. He was a Founder Fellow at Newlab and a member of the CEBIP accelerator at Stony Brook University. He is the inventor of Terrament's core technology and leads engineering, product, and operations as Founder and COO.
Advisory Support Team
In part through grants and accelerator programs, we've been fortunate for amazing support from many advisors across a broad range of expertise.
Wei Li, PhD
Geo-scientist, Civil Engineer, PhD
Professor, Stony Brook
Steven DeCarlo
Electrical Engineer, MBA
Grid Energy Storage, Pumped Hydro
Shruti Sharma, PhD
Materials Science, Engineering, Clean Tech
Courtney Reich
Mechanical Engineering, M.S.
Battery Tech, Statistics
