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Ric Fulop
VP, marketing & dev, A123 Systems
Ric Fulop co-founded A123Systems in 2001 to commercialize novel technology developed at the Material Sciences and Engineering Department at MIT and is Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for the company. One of Ric's goals for A123Systems is to help promote clean energy technologies that can improve the world's carbon cycle by providing compelling energy storage solutions to the transportation, and electric grid services markets. His experience in entrepreneurship includes founding six technology companies that have raised over 370 million dollars in industries as varied as energy storage, software, semi conductors and wireless communications. Ric has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management where he was a Sloan Fellow.