Silicon Valley, California, United States, February 2026 — Asma Sharafi has started a new position as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Ensurge, a company pioneering ultrathin, flexible solid-state lithium battery technology for wearable devices, connected sensors, and next-generation energy storage applications. In this leadership role, she will drive Ensurge’s technology roadmap, product development, and industrialization strategy as the company scales innovation across advanced battery manufacturing.
In February 2026, Asma Sharafi stepped into her new role as Chief Technology Officer at Ensurge. Her appointment comes after a period of strategic leadership in partnerships and product strategy, reflecting her ability to bridge deep technical expertise with commercialization focus in the evolving battery ecosystem.
Immediately prior to this appointment, she served as Senior Vice President of Partnerships and Product Strategy at Ensurge. Alongside this, she has continued her role as Strategic Advisor at InfiniCell, contributing part-time advisory support to advancing energy storage innovation.
Asma is also an Advisory Board Member — The Battery Show Asia, where she guides strategic direction and agenda development while contributing expert insights on advanced batteries, EV chemistry trends such as LFP vs. NMC, solid-state industrialization, and global manufacturing dynamics. In addition, she serves as an Author & Contributor to The Volta Foundation Battery Report, providing analysis on next-generation battery technologies, EV market trends, and manufacturing scale-up challenges and opportunities.
Prior to Ensurge, she held a high-impact executive role at Volkswagen of America, Inc. as Chief Executive Officer at PowerCo US, where she established and led U.S. operations for PowerCo and built cross-functional teams aligned with VW Group leadership and global partners. She built and led an ASSB (all-solid-state battery) industrialization unit, transitioned to automated pilot-scale production, improved first-pass yield, reduced sample cycle times, and accelerated B-sample readiness. She also led end-to-end product development cycles and played a key role as executive liaison with QuantumScape and PowerCo boards, influencing industrialization strategy and product maturity alignment. Her role included negotiating cross-border supply chain agreements across North America, Europe, and Asia and harmonizing standards and supplier contracts across three regulatory jurisdictions.
Earlier, Asma served at Cuberg as Senior Manager – Cell Design, where she strengthened execution discipline through a stage-gate process for technology programs and led automation transitions for cell design documentation and quality control processes (BOM, FMEA, QC, SPC), cutting manual reporting time by 50% and ensuring compliance for aviation and automotive applications. She integrated automated data capture into validation cycles and implemented JIRA-based dashboards that improved milestone adherence and reduced misalignment across stakeholders.
Before Cuberg, she spent over two years at Rivian as Staff Battery Engineer, where she defined technology roadmaps for solid-state chemistries, built advanced lab infrastructure, negotiated supplier agreements for Li-metal anodes and solid electrolytes, and rolled out standards for experimental design and reproducibility. She led manufacturing pivots during R1T/R1S ramp-up, reducing module scrap rates significantly and generating substantial annual cost savings, while also strengthening procurement effectiveness through supplier evaluation and contract negotiation.
Asma also spent over four years at Ford Motor Company as a Battery Research Engineer – Advanced Battery Technology, where she conducted global technology scouting and facilitated collaborations with startups, universities, and suppliers. She negotiated and managed R&D contracts to secure access to emerging solid-state and Li-metal technologies and executed advanced Design of Experiments to address high-impact failure modes. She also held an additional role in Home Energy Storage and Smart Grid battery research, contributing to experimental design, prototype evaluation, and advanced failure analysis.
Earlier in her journey, she served as a Research Assistant at the University of Michigan, where she pioneered novel ceramic oxide garnet-structured electrolytes, led solid-state battery prototype research, authored SOPs and technical reports, and directed multiple government-funded solid-state battery commercialization projects totaling over $4M. She also served as a Principal Investigator for I-CORPS Energy & Transportation, supporting early-stage ventures through customer research and business model validation. She began her academic research track as a Research Assistant at the University of Georgia, focusing on nanomaterial synthesis techniques and scalable solution-processing approaches for advanced functional materials.
About Ensurge
Ensurge is Energizing Innovation™ with ultrathin, flexible, and safe energy storage solutions for wearable devices, connected sensors, and beyond. The company’s proprietary solid-state lithium battery (SSLB) technology is designed to enable powerful, lightweight, and cost-effective rechargeable batteries across diverse applications.
Ensurge operates a state-of-the-art flexible electronics manufacturing facility in Silicon Valley, combining patented process technology and materials innovation with the scale advantages of roll-to-roll production, positioning its SSLB technology to support established markets and expanding next-generation applications.
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