58: Brendan Smith – CEO of SiTration Inc.

Brendan Smith, Co-Founder and CEO of SiTration Inc., chats about his company’s focus on improving the battery recycling process, starting a clean tech company, being a student athlete, and the influence of where he grew up.

 

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Brendan Smith is the Co-Founder & CEO of SiTration, Inc., an advanced materials startup that aims to drastically reduce cost and resource consumption of important industrial separations on a global scale. Spun out of MIT in 2020, the company is developing their core technology, a patented ultra-durable filtration membrane, to impact societally critical applications such as recovering lithium from end-of-life electric vehicle batteries. Brendan earned a Ph.D. in materials science & engineering from MIT and a B.S. in nanotechnology engineering from the University of Waterloo, where he was also a captain of the varsity basketball team. He is generally passionate about developing new materials to address big societal challenges. Outside of work Brendan loves spending time with his family and being outdoors in the ocean or the mountains.