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Cambridge-based Sun Catalytix Corp. announced Wednesday that it has named a veteran of several startups as its CEO and president.
The energy storage and renewable fuels firm said the position goes to Mike Decelle, who most recently was CEO of Boston-based LumenZ Inc., a venture-backed LED lighting company.
Prior to that, Decelle had served as CEO of three photonics companies — NoblePeak Vision, Apogee Photonics and ASIP, Sun Catalytix said. Decelle started his career on the technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs and later became a senior executive at Lucent Technologies, according to the announcement.
The CEO position at Sun Catalytix had been vacant, though at one point Polaris Venture Partners general partner Amir Nashat had been serving as acting CEO.
The company announced in October that it had completed a $9.5 million Series B funding round, led by Tata Limited and including participation from Polaris and other investors.
Sun Catalytix had said the funding would support continued development of the company’s technology, which aims to enable the conversion of electrical, solar or wind energy to storable energy at “transformative” cost targets.
The technology uses catalysts that split water and generate hydrogen and oxygen from water, producing renewable electricity in “benign and simple operating conditions,” according to the company.
Sun Catalytix spun out of MIT to commercialize water-splitting research from the labs of Daniel Nocera, an MIT chemistry professor.
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