Primary Job Title Chairman of the Board of Directors and Head of the Compensation Committee Primary Organization 
Ideal Power
Location Cohasset, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
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David B. Eisenhaure is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Head of the Compensation Committee at Ideal Power. From 1985-2008, David served as the President and CEO of SatCon Technology Corporation, a developer of products for utility, hybrid vehicle, ship building, industrial automation, semiconductor processing, and defense markets.
He
founded SatCon and was also a director from 1985-2009. SatCon is well known for its work in advanced electric drives; inverter technology for smart grid and photovoltaic applications; and the development of lightweight, high-power electronics, which contributed to the development of practical hybrid and electric vehicles.
David brought SatCon public in 1992 and subsequently oversaw the acquisition of eight private companies and one public company, reorganizing SatCon from an R&D company into a diverse organization with four plants in the United States and Canada.
Prior to SatCon, David was the Technical Director of the Energy Systems Division at Draper Laboratory, where he oversaw the development of magnetic bearings, flywheels, energy storage, advanced solid state power converters, advanced motors and generators, and adaptive control systems for highly dynamic and otherwise unstable systems.
Prior to Draper, David worked at MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory, as a graduate student research assistant and later staff engineer, designing and developing electromagnetic and thermal control systems to support the national space and defense programs.
From 1985-1997 he was a Lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT. He has been awarded over 20 patents covering inventions in magnetic suspensions, motor drives and controls, flywheel systems, automotive components, energy storage, and solid state power converters.
David holds a B.S., M.S., and an Engineer's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.
