Addison StarkFounder

United States - Fort Collins, Colorado

Addison works between the worlds of research, business and policy to drive the development and adoption of technologies to decarbonize industry.

Prior to founding AtmosZero, Addison was an Associate Director for Energy Innovation at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) working on policies that became parts of the Energy Act of 2020, the bipartisan infrastructure deal, and the inflation reduction act.

After finishing his PhD at MIT, Addison served as a Fellow at the US Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) focusing on early-stage energy technology development and R&D across sectors including renewable fuels, green industrial chemistry, dry-cooling technologies for water conservation in power generation and leveraging advanced manufacturing for the fabrication of energy devices. While at ARPA-E, he also served as Acting Program Director for ARPA-E’s $33 million Energy-Water Nexus portfolio.

Outside AtmosZero, Addison advises early and mid-stage climatetech companies on technology development strategy, identification of non-dilutive funding sources to support critical-path R&D, and pre-development engineering.