CHICAGO, IL – August 25, 2025 – Battery technology company Natrion announced new board leadership as it scales its American-made Active Separator product for lithium-ion batteries. This development comes on the heels of Natrion’s preparations to commission new manufacturing capacity in service of a burgeoning demand for 45X/OBBBA-compliant lithium battery materials.
Natrion has named Manas Gosavi as its Chairman. Gosavi, an experienced deep-tech investor, was previously a venture capital and growth equity investor with Mubadala Capital, the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi. Prior to Mubadala Capital, Gosavi was a private equity investor at Adams Street Partners. He started his investing career in mergers and acquisitions and corporate strategy at Molex, a division of Koch Industries, where he helped drive large scale acquisitions and capital projects in the electronics manufacturing space.
Gosavi first became involved with Natrion as an angel investor and later joined the company’s board of directors in June 2024. His appointment to Chairman became official in June 2025.
As Chairman, Gosavi’s priorities are capital strategy, geographic strategy, and key stakeholder relationships.
"Natrion is at the forefront of battery technology, pioneering new materials that will power the next generation of energy storage,” Gosavi said. “Natrion is uniquely focused on building domestic production capacity in the United States for advanced separators, which have historically been an underinvested part of the battery technology stack and have the ability to dramatically improve Li-ion cell performance. I firmly believe in the transformative potential of Natrion's work and look forward to helping guide the company as it continues to innovate and lead the industry forward."
Gosavi is also a member of the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches a class on commercializing deep tech enterprises and serves on the Military Education Council. He holds a B.S. in Physics and B.S. in Finance from the University of Illinois, as well as a Pg.D. in International Affairs from King’s College London.
In addition, Natrion’s board also announced the appointment of Alexander Meek as a Commercial Advisor. Meek is the Co-Founder and former President of Moxion Power, a company specializing in mobile battery energy storage systems (BESSs). Under his leadership, Moxion developed the MP-75/600, a mobile BESS product recognized by TIME as one of the Best Inventions of 2023, offering a robust alternative to traditional diesel generators for industries such as construction, film production, and disaster response.
Before founding Moxion, Meek co-founded Newday Financial Technologies, a fintech platform focused on impact investing.
The new appointments come as Natrion scales its U.S.-made battery separator product. The Gen-1 Active Separator, which uses Natrion's patented Lithium Solid Ionic Composite (LISIC) technology, mitigates common Li-ion battery cell degradation processes while enhancing the cost-competitiveness of American-made batteries.
About Natrion
Natrion is a battery materials pioneer, developing critical advanced components necessary to secure our energy future. The company’s flagship Active Separator enables safer, more resilient, and higher energy density batteries while being fully made in America. Natrion is partnered with the U.S. Department of Defense, marquee commercial organizations including LG Energy Solutions, and leading research and academic institutions. Investors backing Natrion include Mark Cuban, TechNexus Venture Collaborative, and Tamarack Global. The company operates out of Illinois and New York.
