Max Kushner-Lenhoff is the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Mitra Chem, an AI-enabled innovator and manufacturer of materials critical for energy, AI, and defense applications. Mitra Chem’s Acceleration platform reduces the lab-to-scale product development timeline and cost by >90%. Our first product at scale is lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode active material (CAM) in Muskegon, Michigan.
Max’s role at Mitra includes developing a resilient supply chain and establishing scale-up and commercial partnerships in the defense, BESS and EV markets. Max joined Mitra from Tesla, where he served as Group Manager for Cathode Supply Chain, determining the supply chains for several critical battery materials while contributing significantly to the ramp-up of battery factories on three continents during his five-year tenure. Max previously worked in strategic planning in the CEO’s Office of Dow Chemical. He holds an MBA with honors from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and an MS in Inorganic Chemistry from Yale.