Stone is a focused team of engineers and builders who have shipped hardware at scale, 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 nuclear, geothermal and advanced cycles to follow. Stone's ambition is to rebuild America's industrial capacity by building the factory to produce new turbines at scale.
Bought, built and delivered every drone, dispersion system and radar Rainmaker shipped as its Head of Manufacturing. Scaled manufacturing at Anduril for 3.5 years after starting on the floor as a CNC and CMM programmer at Lockheed Martin. Has built and run manufacturing companies since high school. Writes about turbines as Turbine Guy on X and Substack.
Sebastian Bell
Head of Business Development
Closed the largest multi-year infrastructure deal in ICE’s history and grew his territory from $55M to $85M+ in two years. Founded ICE’s proprietary trading vertical and was the youngest-ever Global Relationship Manager at ICE/NYSE. Hardware roots at McLaren and Porsche.
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 satellites, flown on 100+ missions. 3 years as Head of Reactor at Radiant and 5 years as a Responsible Engineer on Falcon mechanisms at SpaceX.
Dmitry Klimko
Head of Finance
Filed the S-1 and took a company through its IPO, with 300% growth over three years. Raised $100M+ in debt and $25M+ in equity across Series A, Series B and M&A. Managed a 1 GW+ development pipeline and consolidated 15 project entities. 25 years in energy FP&A and audit.
Tingcheng Wu
Head of Turbomachinery
Developed a seal analysis program licensed to 40+ companies worldwide, including Siemens, GE and Mitsubishi. Principal Engineer at Siemens Energy and Engineering Manager at Air Products Rotoflow, with 15 years in rotor dynamics, bearings, seals and vibration. PhD in rotordynamics from the Texas A&M Turbomachinery Laboratory.
Pat Brennan
Head of Product, Datacenter Solutions
Directed product delivery for Stargate Abilene (eight 200 MW hyperscale data centers) and led product definition for ~$28B of AI data centers at Meta. Launched new AWS data center regions across the Americas and spent 10 years as VP Critical Facilities at Bank of America. 35 years in mission-critical design and build, including 15 to 20 MW gas turbine plants early in his career.
Andrew Albert
Head of Manufacturing
Led the TECT Power business unit, manufacturing blisks, impellers and diffusers for two turbine engine primes. Ran non-destructive and product qualification testing facilities across multiple Element sites. 15+ years leading aerospace manufacturing and test businesses. PMP and Six Sigma Black Belt, with a B.S. in Business from CSULB.
Milos Ivankovic
Founding Engineer
Took a 15-stage axial compressor for a 500 MW gas turbine from blank sheet to customer delivery at Alstom (now GE). Designed a patented 50,000 rpm centrifugal compressor at Pratt & Whitney Canada. 11+ years across GE Power, Alstom and Pratt & Whitney.
Vladimir Belyaev
Founding Responsible Engineer
Built a scalable Dry Low NOx combustor for aeroderivative gas turbines and production-released combustion hardware for Blue Origin’s BE-7 lunar lander engine. 20+ years in the gas turbine hot gas path, including 15 at GE Power and 3.5 in rocket propulsion at Blue Origin.
Yidi “Ted” Tang
Founding Responsible Engineer
Designed and tested 30+ turboexpander-compressors deployed in LNG, nitrogen, hydrogen and air separation plants. 8 years as Senior Aerodynamicist at L.A. Turbine, taking machines from feasibility and aero design through test and validation. 10 years in turbomachinery.
James Allington, Ph.D., P.E.
Founding Mad Scientist
Built the world’s largest calcite Wollaston prism for the Southern African Large Telescope. Designed the gas pressure controller for superplastic forming of titanium aircraft parts at Boeing. 20+ years in prototype engineering, 13 of them running his own consultancy. PhD in robotics from UC Irvine and licensed Professional Engineer in California.
C.J. Nolen
Senior Responsible Engineer
Spent 10+ years at Southwest Research Institute on supercritical CO2 power, including STEP, the DOE-backed 10 MW sCO2 pilot plant in San Antonio.
Daod Mohammad
Principal Electrical Engineer
Led the electrical design and energization of a 3.2 GW AI data center complex with three high- and medium-voltage substations. Electrical engineering supervisor for the Torrance Refinery and lead electrical engineer at Jacobs Engineering and Suncor Energy, plus department leadership at DMC Mining. Ran short-circuit, load-flow, protective coordination and arc-flash studies for major capital projects.
Christian Duessel
Mechanical Engineer
Brought up and calibrated FMCW LiDAR systems for precision metrology as a systems engineer at SiLC Technologies, root-causing problems across optics, firmware, electronics and thermal behavior. Semiconductor fab process engineering at Intel, plus nanofabrication of photonic devices and machine-vision and robotics integration for manufacturers. MIT 2025, with a double major in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering.
Harris Davis
Principal Turbomachinery Engineer
Structural lead for the Westinghouse 501G and 501FD compressors. Designed a clean-sheet, high-speed (60,000 RPM) maglev bearing compressor for Ingersoll Rand. Structural development of the Pratt & Whitney F119 hollow fan blade and double-bore shaft. 35 years in military and industrial turbomachinery.
John Yenney
Talent and Retention
Built SEH America’s semiconductor team by recruiting from Intel, TSMC and Lam Research. Grew California Bank & Trust’s relationship manager division from 10 to 30, focused on bilingual Mandarin and Cantonese bankers. 10 years coaching college football, turning around three losing programs with a 99% graduation rate.
Arturo Chia
Principal Controls Engineer
60+ gas turbine field assignments across multiple countries: new unit deployment through first fire, testing and handover to commercial operation, plus post-maintenance startups, outage troubleshooting and dry low NOx combustion tuning. 14 years at GE Power Services, in field engineering then as P&L leader for gas turbine maintenance and services. Founded an independent technical advisory firm for gas, hydro and machine controls.
Jeff Foster
Senior Build Engineer
Ran the static structural load and pressure test campaigns for Haven-1, Vast’s commercial space station, after helping design, build and commission the test stand they ran on. Spent 10+ years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he overhauled the 3 MeV electron beam accelerator used to qualify Europa Clipper hardware against the radiation environment of Jupiter orbit and built thermal vacuum chambers that simulate the surface conditions of Europa and other icy moons.