Corporate Governance

Mr. Dixon has served as the Chair of the Amprius Board since December 2016. Mr. Dixon has also served as a director of Amprius, Inc. since June 2009. In 1993, he co-founded, and has since served as Managing Director of, Trident Capital, a venture capital fund, and in 2015, he co-founded, and has since served as the Managing Director of, ForgePoint Capital, an investment firm focused on cybersecurity. Prior to Trident Capital, Don was the Co-President at Partech International, a private equity fund associated with Banque Paribas, a Managing Director at Alex. Brown & Sons, and a Vice President at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Dixon has previously served on the boards of directors of the publicly held companies IronNet, Inc., Qualys, Inc. and Top Image Systems Ltd., and also serves as a director of several privately held companies. Mr. Dixon is a member of the Leadership Council of the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Mr. Dixon holds a B.S.E. degree in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Dr. Sun has served as Amprius’ President and Chief Executive Officer since February 2017 and as a director on the Amprius Board since December 2016. Dr. Sun has also served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Amprius, Inc. since March 2010. He also has served as a director of Berzelius (Nanjing) Co., Ltd. (formerly known as Amprius (Nanjing) Co., Ltd.) since 2017 and Apex (Wuxi) Co., Ltd. (formerly known as Amprius (Wuxi) Co., Ltd.) from November 2014 to November 2023, both entities of which were spun off from Amprius, Inc. in 2022. Prior to joining Amprius, Inc., Dr. Sun led two business ventures in the renewable energy space, serving as President and Chief Operating Officer of JA Solar Co. Ltd., a manufacturer of high-performance photovoltaic products, and as chairman and Chief Executive Officer of RayTracker Inc., an advanced solar tracking system company that was acquired by First Solar Inc. Prior to that, he held senior executive positions in several large business enterprises and technology start-ups, including Vice President and General Manager at Honeywell International Inc. and Vice President of Technology at Canon Production Printing (formerly Oce, N.V.). Dr. Sun holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Brown University, an M.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Georgia and a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Nanjing University, China.

Ms. Bayless has served as a director on the Amprius Board since April 2023. Ms. Bayless, currently retired, served as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Synaptics Incorporated, a leader in human interface technology, from 2009 until her retirement in 2015. Before Synaptics, Ms. Bayless served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary at Komag Incorporated, a leading supplier of thin-film disks to the hard disk drive industry, and held other financial leadership positions during her tenure with Komag from 1994 to 2008. Ms. Bayless was previously with the public accounting firm of Ernst & Young. Ms. Bayless currently serves on the board of directors, as audit committee chair, of Veeco Instruments, a manufacturer of semiconductor process equipment. Ms. Bayless also currently serves on the board of directors of Ballard Power Systems, a developer and manufacturer of proton exchange membrane fuel cell products. Previously, she also served on the board of directors of Energous Corporation, which specializes in the advancement of wireless charging technology. Ms. Bayless holds a B.S. in Accounting and Finance from the California State University, Fresno.

Dr. Chu has served as a director on the Amprius Board since December 2016. Dr. Chu has also served as a director of Amprius, Inc. since January 2014. Dr. Chu has served as the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology in the Medical School at Stanford University since May 2013. Dr. Chu is a co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to laser cooling and atom trapping and has received numerous other awards. Dr. Chu was the 12th U.S. Secretary of Energy from January 2009 to April 2013. Prior to his cabinet post, he was director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he was active in pursuit of alternative and renewable energy technologies, and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University, where he helped launch Bio-X, a multi-disciplinary institute combining the physical and biological sciences with medicine and engineering. Prior to that, he was head of the Quantum Electronics Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia Sinica, a foreign member of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Korean Academy of Sciences and Technology and the National Academy of Sciences, Belarus, and the Chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Chu currently serves on the board of directors of Zymergen Inc., a publicly held biotechnology company, and Oatly Group AB, a publicly held oat milk company. Dr. Chu holds an A.B. degree in Mathematics and a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley, and has 33 honorary degrees.

Mr. Satterthwaite has served as a director on the Amprius Board since August 2024. Mr. Satterthwaite is an accomplished industry veteran with over 30 years of experience in the transportation and power generation industries. Over his 36-year career at Cummins, Mr. Satterthwaite has held numerous leadership positions across the company's global businesses and operations, including serving as President of Power Generation, President of the Distribution Business, President and Chief Operating Officer, and others. He is currently a Senior Vice President at Cummins, Inc., where he is responsible for solving large enterprise challenges and aligning business units across IT and digital products and services. In addition, he is a graduate of the first Cummins Executive Leadership Development program. Mr. Satterthwaite holds a master's in business administration from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree in civil engineering from Cornell University. Outside of Cummins, he is a Director of The Chemours Company (NYSE: CC) and IDEX Corporation (NYSE: IEX) where he is a member of the Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. He is also a Board member of the National Association of Manufacturers. 

Dr. Hsieh has served as a director on the Amprius Board since December 2016. Dr. Hsieh co-founded Matter Venture Partners, a venture capital firm, in May 2023 and has been serving as a Founding Managing Partner since then. From February 2006 to May 2023, Dr. Hsieh was a General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm, where he focused on hardware-related investments. Prior to joining Kleiner Perkins, Dr. Hsieh was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company San Francisco and a leader of McKinsey’s Asia semiconductor practice. During his time at McKinsey, Dr. Hsieh focused primarily on serving leading companies across the global semiconductor value chain. Earlier in his career, Dr. Hsieh founded OnChip Technologies, a startup developing MEMS microfluidic biochips. Dr. Hsieh currently serves on the board of directors of Desktop Metal, Inc., a publicly held technology company, and as a director of several privately held companies. He previously served on the board of directors of AEye, Inc., a publicly held company. Dr. Hsieh holds a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a Biology Minor from California Institute of Technology.