Christopher K. Wiese has served as Energy Vault’s President of EV Labs since 2024. Prior to this role, Chris acted as Energy Vault’s Chief Operating Officer from 2022 - 2024. Mr. Wiese also served as Energy Vault Inc.’s Vice President of Engineering from February 2021 to September 2021. Prior to Energy Vault, Mr. Wiese served as Vice President of Global Procurement for Zebra Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq:ZBRA) from 2015 to 2019. Prior to joining Zebra Technologies Corporation Mr. Wiese served as the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Danaher from 2013 to 2014, and the Chief Operating Officer for Spirent Communications plc from 2007 to 2013. Mr. Wiese began his career at Bell Labs in 1988 and progressed through increasing roles of responsibility to Vice President of Wireless Engineering and Supply Chain Networks. Mr. Wiese holds a B.S. and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, and Doctoral studies at the Steven Institute of Technology.