Executive Team

Lars is a Norwegian national with broad international experience, having more than thirty years' leadership experience from reputable multinational corporations, ABB Ltd and Rolls-Royce Holdings plc, and non-executive Chairman roles in Private Equity owned companies. Throughout his career he has held executive positions (CFO/EVP Strategy & Business Development, and CEO) and been instrumental in driving profit improvement projects, M&A and divestment projects, and financial restructuring.

He holds a Master of International Business from the Norwegian School of Economics & Business Administration (NHH), with a major in international finance and strategy.

Arvind Kamath joined Ensurge in January 2014 from Kovio, Inc., where he served as Sr. Director, Technology Development. At Ensurge, he has built and led several teams in the areas of Technology Development, Engineering and Operations.

Most recently, he was responsible for the flexible substrate roll to roll PDPS (Printed Dopant Polysilicon) manufacturing scale-up and led the teams that built a global ecosystem to enable this. At Kovio, Dr. Kamath led materials and process development and integration of a revolutionary printed electronics platform based on silicon ink, from feasibility to qualification and yield enhancement. Prior to Kovio, he worked at LSI Logic in various managerial and specialist roles, including process engineering, group management, R&D operations, SRAM integration and yield enhancement.

Dr. Kamath earned a B.Tech degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai and a Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering from the microelectronics program at The University of Texas, Austin.

Shannon Fogle joined Ensurge in January 2014 from Kovio, Inc. She leads the human resources and administrative functions for all Ensurge locations.

Ms. Fogle led the human resources functions at Kovio from 2007 until 2014. Prior to Kovio, Ms. Fogle worked in various Operations roles at Spansion and Advanced Micro Devices.

Shannon holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from San Jose State University and is Certified by the Society of Human Resource Management.

Jay Tu joined Ensurge in October 2021 and leads all aspects of manufacturing, supply chain, and quality. He brings more than 20 years of experience in high-tech manufacturing and operations and has scaled up multiple semiconductor, assembly, and roll-based technologies and products into high-volume production.

Most recently, he served as vice president, operations at RFID leader Alien Technology, where he built a global supply chain to support a billion-unit business.

Jay holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Ståle Bjørnstad joined Ensurge in August 2020 and heads the Corporate Development and IR department.

He has almost two decades of experience in leadership positions from Equity Research, Equity Sales and Corporate Finance. He has also been CEO of Cxense, a Norwegian listed Big Data and personalization company.

Ståle holds an MCS in Economics and Business Administration from Norwegian School off Economics in Bergen and a degree in International Trade from JKU - Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, Austria.