Steve Cotton

Steve Cotton has extensive background in building, deploying, managing and decommissioning lead-acid batteries. Prior to his current position with Aqua Metals, Steve spent 15 years as the cofounder and CEO of Data Power Monitoring Corporation and IntelliBatt (now Canara), a company with data center battery-monitoring products and services that he grew from his garage to a global multi-million dollar company. Canara was acquired by Columbia Capital in June 2012. He started his career in product development, business development and sales and has held positions at Sendmail, Inc., Lucent Technologies and Octel Communications. Steve holds several patents in the area of battery monitoring and has a BS in computer information systems with a focus on telecommunications from California State University, Chico.