Management Team

The MPS team has many years of combined experience in a wide variety of battery technologies for industrial, commercial, and household applications.

Chuck Weitzel
President/CEO
Chuck has more than 25 years’ experience serving the electronic OEM market. In 1984, he founded Micro Power, a leading battery assembling company that offers high-quality battery packs. Under Chuck's leadership, process controls, semi-automated production, and a strong emphasis on customer engineering and purchasing support were crucial to the company's success. Chuck also founded Advanced Power Products, a direct manufacturer's representative company (for Matsushita).

When Chuck sold both companies in 1995, Micro Power had 70 employees; APP had four employees. From 1975 to 1984, Chuck worked as a sales engineer for Electronic Sources (manufacturer's representative for Panasonic Batteries and OEM industrial products), Vantage Corporation (manufacturer's rep for National Semiconductor), and Almac/Strom (multi-line distributor with a focus on semiconductor products).


Andrew Tipton, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist
Andy has over ten years experience designing and testing energy storage devices (U.S. Navy, PolyStor).  He is a member of the Electrochemical Society and the American Chemical Society.  He holds a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Northwestern University.  His expertise includes Li-ion and Li-polymer batteries and electrochemical capacitors.


Ramesh V. Shah
Senior Technical Advisor and Select Scientific Project Manager
Ramesh has 30 years of cell and battery experience (GE, Gates, Energizer, Moltech) in R&D, manufacturing, regulatory compliance, product design, safety, and applications. His expertise includes chemistries such as Ni-Cd, NiMH, Li-Ion, Li-Polymer, LiS2, and primary lithium and alkaline batteries.

Ramesh has worked extensively with major OEMs in communications, power and garden tools, medical devices, emergency lighting, hybrid electrical vehicles, and electric bikes. He is leading the national and global standardization work on the safety of portable rechargeable batteries through ANSI, IEC and UL. He is the technical advisor to the U.S. National Committee (USNC) on portable rechargeable batteries, Chairman of ANSI C18-2 and Vice Chairman of ANSI C18-5 (committees on rechargeable batteries), member of ANSI C18-1 and ANSI C18-3 (committees on standardization of primary batteries), Convenor of IEC/SC21A/WG4 and U.S. specialist in IEC/SC21A/WG2 and WG3, and a member of the standard's technical panel for UL1436, UL1642, UL2054 and UL60950.

Ramesh holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.S. in Automobile Engineering, and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering with training in Engineering Management.