Dr. Louay A. Eldada

Louay Eldada is founding CEO of Quanergy and Scidatek, his fourth and fifth startups. As a serial entrepreneur, he founded 5 companies and sold the first 3 to Fortune 100 companies.
Prior to Quanergy, Dr. Eldada was CTO of SunEdison, CTO of HelioVolt (acquired by SK Energy), and CTO of DuPont Photonic Technologies (formed by the acquisition of Telephotonics, where he was founding CTO). His first job was at Honeywell, where he started the Telecom Photonics business and sold it to Corning.
He holds 80 patents and is a recognized expert in quantum optics, nanotechnology, photonic integrated circuits, advanced optoelectronics, sensors and robotics.
He studied business administration at Harvard, MIT and Stanford, and holds a Ph.D. in optical engineering from Columbia University.