John McClroy & Autoline

Host the 2023 GAMIC Winners 

Thursday July 13, 2023

3:00 - 4:00 pm EDT

Autoline TV 

Autoline is dedicated to reporting on, discussing and dissecting the inner workings of the auto industry and the products that it makes. Our website has several channels that carry our different programs, blog, and other information resources. Autoline is often the first stop for auto executives, industry insiders, and consumers looking for the latest news about cars and the industry.

Autoline Afterhours host the GAMIC 2023 Champions. 

MODERATOR: 

John McElroy 

PRESENTERS:

Chance Claxton, Co-CEO - Orbis Brakes

Damien Despinoy, Chief Executive Officer - Volexion

Yuanbo Guo, Founder & CEO - Vultara

Michael Pickholz, CEO & CTO - MagWerks Vision

MODERATOR 

John McElroy

John McElroy is an influential thought leader in the automotive industry. He is a jounalist, lecturer, commentator and entrepreneur. He created "Autoline Daily," the first industry webcast of industry news and analysis. He is also the host of the television program "Autoline Week," the Emmy Award-winning, weekly half-hour discussion program featuring top automotive executives and journalists. And he co-hosts "Autoline After Hours," a weekly live webcast that focuses on new cars and technology.  

2023 GAMIC CHAMPIONS

Michael Pickholz

CEO / CTO MagWerks Vision

Michael is a veteran automotive lighting industry professional with extensive expertise in product innovation, advanced product design, engineering and program management as well as sales.

His career spans multiple OEMs as well as prominent Tier-1 Lighting suppliers. His quest for product simplification and functional improvements are at the root of his innovations towards the replacement of plastics materials with much stronger, lighter and thermally conductive Thixomolded Magnesium (Magnesium Injection Molding) as well the introduction of for more robust, long lasting and effective Optical Silicone technologies, which totally change how vehicle illumination products are conceived and manufactured.

MagWerks Vision aims to become “the” supplier to the Mobility and electrified vehicle industries, providing major improvements in illumination performance, a now clear contributor to accident reductions for both vehicle operators and pedestrians/road users alike. It thus aims to making a major positive societal contribution in the process.

Chance Claxton

Co-CEO Orbis Brakes

Chance brings a demonstrated history with sustainable consumer goods and start up enterprises to her position. She handled international product sourcing and vendor relations for Design Within Reach, served as Co-Founder and President of waste-free food packaging pioneer U-Konserve, and as CEO for environmental health solutions company BiOAID Inc. Skilled in marketing and brand management, product development, business planning, advertising, and e-commerce, Chance welcomes Orbis Brakes’ mission of combining high-performance automotive innovation with working environmental solutions.

Orbis Brakes proprietary design utilizes a floating centerless rotor and inside out caliper to reduce the weight of the rotor’s mounting hub, while the wide diameter opening pumps a higher volume of air through the vented chambers, significantly lowering brake temperatures.

The larger format creates more leverage and a more efficient force, allowing Orbis Brakes to use a 50% smaller brake pad to further reduce weight, increase overall efficiency, and lower brake dust emissions.

This revolutionary new dynamic allows Orbis Brakes to operate cooler as they get lighter, and enables OEMs to calibrate these values to the specific needs of each market segment.

Damien Despinoy

Chief Executive Officer - Volexion, driving business and technology development, commercial and strategic planning activities. Damien has over 20 years of leadership experience in the Energy, Climate Technology, Materials and Industrial Technology sectors. Prior to joining Volexion, Damien gained expertise in Climate Technology commecialization and Venture Capital (Energy Foundry), Management Consulting (McKinsey) and Industrial Operations, Scale-up & Capital projects (Total Refining & Chemicals). Damien received his MBA from INSEAD, his MS of Chemical Engineering from IFP School and his MS in Chemistry from the Paris Institute of Technology (ENSCP).

Volexion is commercializing a disruptive graphene encapsulation solution for Li-ion cathode materials, driving comprehensive perfomance improvement for Li-ion batteries (cycle-life, stability and safety, energy density rate capability). Volexion's drop in solution builds on technology invented at Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory by MacAthur fellow Mark Hersam.

Yuanbo Guo

Founder and CEO - Vultara Inc. 

Before his entrepreneurial journey, Yuanbo spent over 10 years in the automotive industry and management consulting. He was a management consultant at Ernst & Young, LLP (EY), where he helped build product security departments for clients in various industries such as heavy machinery, aerospace, consumer electronics, and medical device.

Prior to EY, Yuanbo was the head of product cybersecurity department at Magna Electronics (ME), responsible for securing all product lines globally. He built the product cybersecurity team from ground up, making Magna one of the first few automotive companies in the world that has in-house product cybersecurity capability.

Yuanbo is a Joint Working Group voting member of the ISO/SAE 21434 committee, currently serving as a co-chair in the TAF/CAL group (PAS 8475). He holds an MBA degree from University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.

Vultara, Inc. is a technology startup focusing on automotive cybersecurity. Our risk management platform, Vultara, is the first and only SaaS product on the market today that covers from concept design phase to post-production monitoring phase.

Vultara provides one-of-its-kind circuit simulation type of user experience to automate Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA) throughout the product design and development cycle. Then, the same TARA model is used by Vultara’s automation engines to manage product cybersecurity risks and triage cybersecurity monitoring events.

Aided by machine learning and artificial intelligence, Vultara’s automation engines save our customer 90% in project timing, and 70% in engineering budget.

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