COMPANY : LEADERSHIP
Steven Amendola
President, Inventor & Chief Technology Officer
Steve is the inventor and founder of RSi and has over 30 years of experience in renewable energies. Steve has also co-founded, and invented and patented the technology for, Eos Energy Storage, which develops low-cost energy storage solutions for the electric utility and transportation industries. Prior to RSi and Eos, Steve founded the company Millennium Cell, which developed a very high energy density battery/fuel cell technology. Steve managed the company (which grew to 50 employees and later went public) before leaving to develop new technologies in 2002. Steve has been awarded more than two dozen U.S. patents, with approximately 20 additional patents pending and many corresponding foreign patents related to new fuels, turbines, diesel fuels, and hydrogen production. Steve’s area of specialty is process development in both inorganic chemistry and metallurgy. He has a deep knowledge and decades of experience evaluating and developing related technologies. Steve has a BA in Chemistry from Kings College (NY) and an ABD in Chemistry from Ohio State University.
Greg Mandor
Executive Vice President
Greg joined RSi in 2010 to lead the Company’s business development and financial efforts. Prior to RSi, Greg was part of a private equity investment team at JPMorgan, and before the merger with Bear Stearns, where he invested over $500 million across multiple sectors and geographic regions, including technology, renewable energy and emerging markets. Greg led deals from venture capital through leveraged buyout stage, including public to private takeovers, as well as debt, real estate and structured transactions. While at JPMorgan, Greg participated in the management of a listed private equity investment trust, leading investment, marketing and accounting efforts. Greg speaks English and French, and earned a BS in Finance and International Business from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.
Michael Oster
Senior Advisor
Michael’s experience includes real estate, emerging markets, technology and renewable energy. In addition to his work with RSi, Michael co-founded Eos Energy Storage with Steve Amendola and was the first investor in the company. Prior to Eos, Michael launched Clean Energy Holdings as a vehicle to develop solar power and invest in energy technologies. He had developed several of the larger commercial solar power systems in New Jersey in partnership with a major European utility. Michael began his career in strategy and business planning based at IBM’s largest development and testing facility, and he later joined the international management consulting firm of A. T. Kearney. In 1991, Michael moved to Russia as privatization was starting and built what was one of the first and largest real estate investment and development companies in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In 1994, Michael established the first institutional real estate investment fund in Russia in partnership with the AT&T pension fund, and developed numerous successful projects. In the last decade, Michael formed and capitalized an early stage technology venture capital firm in New York City. He was one of the original partners to launch the global energy technology firm Aspect Enterprise Solutions together with Steve Hellman, where he populated the board and investor group with OPEC oil ministers, US cabinet members and other energy industry leaders. Michael has been quoted or profiled in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, the London Observer, the Moscow Times and other publications. Michael received his BA from Brandeis University and his MBA from NYU where he won an award for best thesis for his work on evaluating risk. He speaks Russian and French.