Board of Directors
Patrick Elliott, Chairman
Pat Elliott is a company director with 40 years’ experience in investment and corporate management. His early career was at Consolidated Gold Fields Australia, and covered investment analysis, management and marketing. He later worked in investment banking and became Head of Corporate Finance for Morgan Grenfell Australia and Managing Director of Natcorp Investments. Patrick has a BCom and MBA, and is a CPA. He is on the Remuneration and Audit Committees.
Anthony Kongats, Chief Executive Officer
Anthony founded CAP-XX in 1997. Prior to this, he was managing director of a passive electronic components manufacturer, a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and held a number of engineering positions in Australia and Europe. Anthony has a BEng (Hons) from the University of New South Wales, a BSc from the University of Sydney, and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management in Sydney.
Bruce Grey, Non-Executive Director
Bruce is a company director with a strong track record of management in engineering and manufacturing companies, and of commercialisation of automotive technology. This was gained during 13 years with Bishop Technology Group, a privately held Australian automotive technology development company, during which licensing agreements were secured with Robert Bosch, Mercedes Benz, Ford, and two Chinese component suppliers. He also secured an equity investment in Bishop from Mercedes-Benz, which was subsequently transferred to ThyssenKrupp Presta Steertec. Bishop’s technology is today present in over 20% of vehicles manufactured worldwide. In 2012 he was appointed to the Australian Federal Government’s Clean Technology Investment Committee.
Steen Feldskov, Non-Executive Director
Steen joins the CAP-XX board with nearly 40 years of experience working in the electronics industry, with approximately half of that time involved in the sale and marketing of electronic components and the remainder in senior management roles for electronics companies. He is currently the Country Manager for the Danish office of Hamamatsu Photonics Deutschland GmbH, a subsidiary of the Tokyo-listed Hamamatsu Photonics K. K. the Japanese manufacturer of optical sensors, electric light sources, and other optical devices.
Steen received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern Denmark and a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Marketing from the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Steen is also a Member of the Danish Management Society.
Executive Team
Anthony Kongats, Chief Executive Officer
Anthony founded CAP-XX in 1997. Prior to this, he was managing director of a passive electronic components manufacturer, a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and held a number of engineering positions in Australia and Europe. Anthony has a BEng (Hons) from the University of New South Wales, a BSc from the University of Sydney, and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management in Sydney.
Mike Taylor, Chief Financial Officer
Mike has over 25 years’ experience in operations and financial management, much of it gained with internationally listed companies. Mike graduated from Kuring-Gai College with a BBus, and from Macquarie University with a MAppFin. He is a Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA).
Alex Bilyk, Vice President Research
Alex is a Chemist with over 25 years’ experience in Research and Development. In the last 17 years he has been focused on industry R&D for materials and device development at both CAP-XX and CSIRO. Alex has worked extensively on improving the operational performance of energy storage devices. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Sydney and his BSc (Hons) from the University of Western Australia.
Pierre Mars, Vice President Applications Engineering & Quality
Pierre works closely with business partners and customers to develop supercapacitor-based energy storage and power management solutions. He has more than 30 years’ experience in electrical engineering and project management with major multinational corporations, including Honeywell. Pierre has a BEng (Hons) and MEngSci (Electrical) from the University of New South Wales, and an MBA from INSEAD in Paris.
Dallas Garratt, GM – Operations
Dallas has significant experience in design, construction and operations, with a strong focus on manufacturing best practices and optimising operational efficiencies. He has held a number of engineering and project management positions within large multinational companies across Australia, Europe and Asia. Dallas has a B.Eng (Hons) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Sydney, and is a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng).
Song Hee Lau, GM Sales & Marketing – APAC
Song Lau has more than 30 years in sales and marketing of electronic components with multi-national companies: Vishay Intertechnology, Thomson Passives (acquired by AVX in 1998) and STMicroelectronics (merger of SGS Semiconductor and Thomson Electronics in 1987) and was based in various APAC countries. Previously he spent 10 years with Robert Bosch in Malaysia, reaching the position of Quality Assurance Manager. Song graduated with a B.Eng. (Electrical) from University of Auckland (New Zealand).
Marco Ranalli, GM – Europe
Marco has more than 20 years’ experience in engineering and sales of mechanical and electronic components with large automotive multi-national companies such as Meritor, Faurecia, Gentherm. In his last assignment at Gentherm he was in charge of the complete energy systems global business unit. Marco graduated with a MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnical University of Milan (Italy) and has spent most of his professional life in Germany.
Jeff Colton, EVP – USA
Jeff has been an energy storage executive for 30 years with senior executive positions at Ioxus, Inc., General Electric, Sanyo Energy (now Panasonic), Saft Battery, Pentadyne Flywheels and Maxwell Technologies. He has achieved over US$1 Billion in energy storage product revenues with multiple technologies including Li-Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride, Nickel Cadmium, Lithium Manganese Dioxide, Flywheels and Ultracapacitors. Jeff’s most recent role was Sr. VP, Global Sales for Ioxus, Inc. (9 years) a leading manufacturer of ultracapacitors.