Stone is a focused team of world-class builders doing what the industry stopped doing decades ago: designing and manufacturing power generation turbines from a clean sheet. Our first natural gas turbine ships in 2027, with steam, geothermal, and advanced cycles to follow. We're building toward a large ambition: rebuilding the industrial capacity to make new turbines at scale.
Scaled manufacturing at Anduril and led hardware delivery as Head of Manufacturing at Rainmaker — shipping every drone, dispersion system, and radar. Started on the floor as a CNC/CMM programmer at Lockheed Martin and has built and run manufacturing companies since high school. Writes as 'Turbine Guy' on X and Substack.
Sebastian Bell
Head of Commercial & Operations
Youngest-ever Global Relationship Manager at ICE/NYSE, where he closed the largest infrastructure deal in the exchange's history and grew his territory from $55M to $85M+. Hardware roots at McLaren and Porsche.
Milos Ivankovic
Founding Engineer
Built a 15-stage axial compressor for a 500 MW gas turbine at Alstom (now GE), blank sheet to delivery, and a patented 50,000-rpm compressor at Pratt & Whitney Canada. 11+ years across GE Power, Alstom, and Pratt & Whitney.
Vladimir Belyaev
Founding Responsible Engineer
20+ years in the gas-turbine hot gas path. Built a scalable Dry Low NOx combustor for aeroderivative turbines; 15 years at GE Power and 3.5 in rocket propulsion at Blue Origin (BE-7 lunar lander).
Yidi “Ted” Tang
Founding Responsible Engineer
Senior aerodynamicist, 10 years in turbomachinery. Designed and tested 30+ turboexpander-compressors for LNG, hydrogen, and air separation; 8 years at L.A. Turbine.
James Allington
Build Engineer
20+ years in prototype engineering, PhD in robotics from UC-Irvine. Built the world's largest Calcite Wollaston prism for the Southern African Large Telescope and a leading controller for superplastic titanium forming.
Michael Alber
Head of Statics Engineering
Built the reactivity control system for Radiant's Kaleidos microreactor and the deployment mechanisms for SpaceX's Starlink V2 Mini, flown on 100+ missions. Head of Reactor at Radiant; 5 years at SpaceX on Falcon mechanisms.
Dmitry Klimko
Head of Finance
Took a company through a successful IPO — filing the S-1 and driving 300% growth in three years — and has raised $100M+ in debt and $25M+ in equity across Series A, B, and M&A. Managed a 1GW+ development pipeline and the consolidation of 15 project entities. 25 years of FP&A and audit expertise.
Carson Fugate
Responsible Engineer, Statics
Lead Mechanical Designer and Systems Engineer for Valar Atomics' WARD Zero microreactor and Nova cold-criticality demo — one of 11 in the DOE Reactor Pilot Program. 13+ years building mission-critical hardware across SpaceX, Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, and Blue Origin, to AS9100 and NQA-1 standards. Combat-decorated USMC Sergeant across two deployments.
Kat Suwoko
Build Engineer
Developed performance parts for IndyCar, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, and the Baja 1000, including two years at Honda Racing Corporation USA. Founded a neurotech startup leading hardware product development and project management. 7 years of CAD design.