Joe Pinkerton
Co-Founder & CEO
Joe Pinkerton is an award-winning inventor and entrepreneur who has founded several technology companies. His ventures range from launching a research lab dedicated to developing high-efficiency devices to founding an advanced flywheel technology company that he successfully took public. With over 100 patented innovations, his products have generated more than $1 billion in sales while helping customers reduce their carbon footprints by approximately 1 million tons.
His dedication to entrepreneurship and innovation has earned him numerous accolades, including the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Central Texas, a SXSW Innovation Award, and recognition in Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2024. He studied physics at Albion College and Columbia University.
Dr. William M. Lackowski
Co-Founder & CTO
Prior to joining the parent company of Brane Audio, Dr. Lackowski was the Chief Scientist at the Center for Nano and Molecular Science and Technology at the University of Texas at Austin. In that position, he provided internal scientific consulting to over 300 center users, was instrumental in securing external funding (including a recently awarded $15 million Department of Energy Frontier research center) and managed the operation of a shared $50 million nanoscience instrumentation facility. Dr. Lackowski also held scientific positions at Sandia National Laboratories and Texas A&M; University.
Dr. Lackowski received his PhD and MS degrees from Northwestern University in physical chemistry. He received his BS degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in chemistry. He has authored or co-authored 19 papers on various aspects of surface nanotechnology including developing novel scanning probe microscopic techniques and has served as a reviewer of nanotechnology grants submitted to the National Science Foundation.
David A. Badger
Co-Founder and VP of Engineering
Prior to joining the parent company of Brane Audio, Dave Badger was the Principal Controls Engineer at Active Power (NASDAQ: ACPW, acquired by Langley Holdings). In this capacity he developed novel control methods for the company's core technologies including partial magnetic bearings for energy-storage flywheels, line-interactive utility voltage regulation and electromechanical energy conversion.
Dave received a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin where he also worked in research engineering at the UT Center for Electromechanics. After graduation, he worked for Texas Memory Systems in Houston, developing high bandwidth, multi-ported memory systems and high speed array processors. He is a named inventor on over forty patents.
