Executive Team

Modular Energy Devices has a strong management team with a solid track record of success.

• Sanjay Deshpande, VP and General Manager – Mr. Deshpande has 30 years of experience in the US battery industry. Currently, he is also Vice President of Aerospace and Defense at EnerSys, the majority shareholder of Modular Energy Devices. Prior to joining EnerSys in 2003, Mr. Deshpande was Vice President of Corporate Development at Exide Technologies, which, in 2000, acquired GNB Technologies where he had served as Chief Technology Officer. He began his career at Honeywell Power Sources Center as a research engineer in lithium primary batteries. Mr. Deshpande holds an MBA and MS in Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles, USA, and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.
• Stephen Eaves, VP of Technology – Stephen S. Eaves is the inventor of the ModEnergy massively parallel cell technology. Mr. Eaves has 15 years of experience in battery applications, power electronics and control system development. He is the former president and founder of Eaves Devices, an energy storage and power systems engineering company incorporated in the year 2000. Eaves Devices is responsible for the development of the battery management system for the Navy Advanced Seal Delivery Vehicle, the B2 Bomber Lithium-ion Battery Upgrade, the Navy Light Torpedo Development Vehicle, the XSS-11 satellite battery electronics and numerous other demanding energy storage applications. Mr. Eaves has authored or coauthored six published papers related to battery management and power electronics. He has seven patents issued or pending. Mr. Eaves holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Connecticut.
• Farshid Bakhtyari, VP of Engineering – Mr. Bakhtyari has over 17 years of experience related to hardware and software engineering. He has worked for companies such as Haemonetics, IBM, Seagate Software, VERITAS and Symantec. Mr. Bakhtyari brings skills in developing and managing projects related to graphical user interfaces, networked and Internet connected devices. Mr. Bakhtyari holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science Degree in Computer Architecture from Northeastern University in Boston.