People
Meet our teams
Supervisory Board
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Francesco co-founded Renaissance Fusion in 2020 after 24 years of physics research in Frascati, Garching, Culham, San Diego, Madison and New York. His accolades include the 2003 Otto Hahn Medal for his PhD on Wendelstein 7-AS, and the 2011 DOE Early Career Award for the first stabilization of a “Locked Mode” -the main cause of tokamak disruptions. As one of few physicists with direct experience on stellarators, tokamaks and spherical tokamaks, he concluded that HTS stellarators with liquid walls are the most viable, efficient reactors, but they need to be simplified, shrunk and made economically attractive. With that in mind, in 2019 he earned an Executive MBA from ESCP Europe. Until 2025, Francesco was also the inaugural CEO of Renaissance, which he grew to 100 people, over € 60M of funds raised, and 3 locations in 2 countries.
Francesco VOLPE
Sylvie RICHARD
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Sylvie holds a master's degree in nuclear engineering from ENSTA Paris, and an Executive MBA from IMD Lausanne. Sylvie began her career as a neutronics engineer at EDF. She then held management positions in nuclear plants until taking over the management of the Tricastin power plant (4 reactors of 900 MWe). After being deputy director of the nuclear production division (56 EDF reactors in France and 2 engineering centers - 23,000 employees), she is, since April 2022, in charge of the French nuclear fleet Long Term Operation Program overseeing major maintenance and modifications, for an annual CAPEX budget of 4.7 billion euros.
Clay DUMAS
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Clay is a founding partner at Lowercarbon Capital, where he works closely with unreasonably ambitious founders to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere. He is also a partner at Lowercase Capital, one of the industry’s highest-performing early-stage venture funds. Previously, Clay served as an aide to the Senior Advisor and the Deputy Chief of Staff in the Obama Administration. His work spanned operations and security to media and political strategy. He later helped rebuild the Office of Digital Strategy. Part of his mandate was to reinvigorate how the White House built online support for its conservation, energy, and other planet-healing initiatives.
Philippe VERCHERIN
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Philippe is Investment Director at Crédit Mutuel Impact since 2020. He focuses on investments in innovative companies with high environmental impact and in infrastructure for the energy transition. He previously spent eight years at VINCI, a world leader in concessions, energy and construction, financing major highway and railway projects through public-private partnerships. Philippe holds a Master of Science in civil engineering from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and an MBA from Collège des Ingénieurs.
Sam GUILAUMÉ
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Sam is a seasoned technology executive with over 30 years of leadership experience in the Semiconductor, MEMS, IoT, and Digital Health sectors. He began his career at Technicolor, working in Germany, the USA, and France, before joining Schlumberger to deepen his semiconductor expertise. In 2007, he co‑founded and led Movea, expanding it from France to subsidiaries in the USA and Korea until its acquisition by TDK InvenSense. Since then, he has held several CEO roles in technology start‑ups like Aryballe, combining strategic vision with operational leadership and venture capital experience. A French native, Sam holds a degree in electronics from the Grande École d’Ingénieurs ESEO and completed leadership training at the University of Denver. He is an avid trail-runner and crossed the Atlantic on his sailboat with two friends.
Executives
Francesco VOLPE
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Francesco co-founded Renaissance Fusion in 2020 after 24 years of physics research in Frascati, Garching, Culham, San Diego, Madison and New York. His accolades include the 2003 Otto Hahn Medal for his PhD on Wendelstein 7-AS, and the 2011 DOE Early Career Award for the first stabilization of a “Locked Mode” -the main cause of tokamak disruptions. As one of few physicists with direct experience on stellarators, tokamaks and spherical tokamaks, he concluded that HTS stellarators with liquid walls are the most viable, efficient reactors, but they need to be simplified, shrunk and made economically attractive. With that in mind, in 2019 he earned an Executive MBA from ESCP Europe. Until 2025, Francesco was also the inaugural CEO of Renaissance, which he grew to 100 people, over € 60M of funds raised, and 3 locations in 2 countries.
Philippe LAMOTTE
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After obtaining his Master’s degree in finance and accounting in southern France, Philippe held various international management positions in the nuclear industry. In 2000 he restructured a mid-size company in Germany. In 2006 he became ERP Program Director and introduced project management techniques in the finance core model of Framatome. Back to Germany in 2011, he took the position of Corporate Controller at the Enrichment Technology Company, which develops and manufactures centrifuges. Philippe then joined the Olkiluoto 3 project as CFO and spent more than four years in Finland focusing on stabilizing the project, before moving back to France in 2018 to become Finance and Procurement Head of ITER. Philippe joined Renaissance Fusion in 2024.
Diego CAMMARANO
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Diego joined Renaissance Fusion as its first employee in 2021, he became its COO in 2022 and the inaugural CEO of its Italian subsidiary in 2025. Always looking for ways to put his skills at the service of others, he previously held field positions in several automated hematology projects in public hospitals in Italy, for Dasit spa. He then became part of the team in charge of installing the proton therapy centre of Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK for IBA. Starting as a field engineer, he quickly became lead engineer for the entire installation and ultimately during clinical operations. Diego holds an MBA from ESMT Berlin, an MSc in Nuclear engineering from Politecnico di Milano and an MSc in Industrial engineering from École Centrale Paris.
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Sam GUILAUMÉ
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Sam is a seasoned technology executive with over 30 years of leadership experience in the Semiconductor, MEMS, IoT, and Digital Health sectors. He began his career at Technicolor, working in Germany, the USA, and France, before joining Schlumberger to deepen his semiconductor expertise. In 2007, he co‑founded and led Movea, expanding it from France to subsidiaries in the USA and Korea until its acquisition by TDK InvenSense. Since then, he has held several CEO roles in technology start‑ups like Aryballe, combining strategic vision with operational leadership and venture capital experience. A French native, Sam holds a degree in electronics from the Grande École d’Ingénieurs ESEO and completed leadership training at the University of Denver. He is an avid trail-runner and crossed the Atlantic on his sailboat with two friends.
Business Leaders
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Domenico held various positions with Air Liquide for more than 30 years in France and abroad. Starting at Vernon on the Ariane 5 cryogenic rocket engine, he was then appointed Product Manager for the microelectronics and chemical industries. After that, he embarked on a 7-year expatriation to Shanghai as General Manager, successfully establishing the Asian Advanced Technologies branch, expanding business operations, and fostering collaborations in new markets. Back in France, Domenico actively contributed to international fusion projects for Big Science. He joined Renaissance Fusion in 2022 to fulfill his dream of working on Fusion by leading the business development and sales team.
Domenico D'ANDREA
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Martin KUPP
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Martin is a Professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at the ESCP Business School, Paris and at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), Berlin. He has had a passion for deeptech entrepreneurship ever since meeting Francesco for the first time in 2019. Martin’s research focuses on entrepreneurial decision-making, venture scaling and team dynamics in deeptech ventures.
Technical & Project Leaders
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Nathaniel BAKER
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Nathaniel is an experimentalist in fluid mechanics. He earned his PhD in 2017 from the University of Grenoble (FR) and Coventry University (UK). For that, he experimentally showed that liquid metal turbulence subject to strong magnetic fields can sustain inverse energy transfers at scales which are topologically 3D (see PRL article). As a post-doc at ONERA (the French aerospace laboratory), he benchmarked a novel method to reconstruct the full pressure field from tomographic velocity measurements alone. He joined Renaissance Fusion in 2021 when the lab was still an empty hall. He made major contributions to the Skyfall series of experiments in meter-size cylindrical chambers and was promoted to Group Leader in 2023 and Head in 2025.
Marion HUDSON
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Marion started her career in 2007 in bp in UK, where she held various technical leading roles in Product Development and Deployment. She developed and launched many of the Castrol lubricant products in Europe, working with multi-disciplinary and multi national teams. She then joined Tokamak Energy on its fusion mission in 2020. There, as a program and portfolio manager, she implemented its PMO, recruited the team and put in place an agile framework to project management whilst delivering its AMR program funded by UK government. After 17 years in the UK, Marion joined Renaissance Fusion to take a similar role and bring her skills to the team and its ambitious business plan.
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Danilo LONGO
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During his PhD, earned in 2019 at Sorbonne University, Danilo studied the interaction between magnetic molecules and ultra-thin superconducting films of lead (Pb). He subsequently joined the DEIMOS beamline at the SOLEIL synchrotron to investigate molecular magnetism and its interaction with superconducting substrates by X-ray magnetic circular dichroism. In 2021 he moved to CIC nanoGUNE to upgrade a commercial scanning tunneling microscope and detect the first electron spin resonance signal in Spain from individual atomic spin qubits on ultra-thin oxide layers, which he achieved in 2023. In 2024 he joined Renaissance Fusion and accepted the challenge of manufacturing the world's widest HTS tapes.
Ruben FAIR
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Ruben received a BSc, with honors, and a doctorate degree in electrical engineering from Imperial College London, respectively in 1985 and 1991. He has worked on conventional power generation and motor systems, low temperature and high temperature superconducting systems for NMR magnets, offshore wind turbine generators, propulsion motors and experimental nuclear physics experiments at Oxford Instruments, General Electric and the Jefferson Lab. He has extensive experience in leading diverse and multinational teams in the UK and USA, and led the team at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory designing plasma facing diagnostic instruments for ITER. Ruben joined Renaissance Fusion in September 2025.
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Victor joined Renaissance Fusion in 2021 after earning his engineering diploma from Ecole Polytechnique and PhD at MIT on machine design and structural optimization. He has worked on a wide range of projects, from prosthetics to high performance car engines and wave energy harvesting machines, resulting in 4 patents and 11 publications. Starting with the early days of Renaissance Fusion, Victor has completed major published works on stellarator system optimization, blanket and neutronics design, and multiple magnet prototypes. He has grown along with the company and the teams and is now dedicated to realizing fusion energy!
Victor PROST
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Andrea (PhD 2018 Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) is a physical chemist with a diversified background ranging from R&D to project and consortium management. He started his career as a material scientist in Grenoble's large-scale research facilities: the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) and the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) for neutron science and technology. In 2022, Andrea worked as a European consortium manager at CEA-Liten Grenoble focusing on circular economy of polymers and material for hydrogen production. Finally, he joined Renaissance Fusion in 2024. Passionate about Science, he strongly believes that the scientific progress goes hand-in-hand with fostering collaborations.
Andrea TUMMINO
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