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Dr. Alvin Orbaek White

For more than thirty years, carbon nanotubes have shown extraordinary promise. Dr Alvin Orbaek White (Dr. Orb) believes the defining challenge is no longer proving the technology, but building the manufacturing systems that allow the technology to scale. He founded TrimTabs to bridge that gap.

After conducting work at institutions including Rice University, MIT, and Swansea University, Orb founded TrimTabs to solve a challenge that has limited the field for decades: turning exceptional laboratory materials into scalable industrial products.

Under his leadership, TrimTabs is developing advanced carbon nanotube materials, conductors, and modular manufacturing systems designed to accelerate the industrial adoption of CNT technologies.

His work has attracted government and industrial funding, secured investment, generated patented technologies, and contributed to advances in carbon nanotube production, circular-economy manufacturing, and next-generation conductor systems.

Orb's long-term vision is to help establish carbon nanotubes as a foundational engineering material for the electrified economy.

PhD, Rice University • Former MIT Postdoctoral Associate • Former Associate Professor, Swansea University

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