Xina Quan

Xina Quan is Co-founder and CEO of PyrAmes and has been developing PyrAmes’ technology with Stanford Professor Zhenan Bao since 2015. Prior to starting PyrAmes, Xina led the R&D efforts at Artificial Muscle Inc., a venture-backed start-up spun out of SRI, which resulted in the first commercial application of electroactive polymers. She played a critical role in the acquisition of AMI by Bayer MaterialScience in 2010 and by Parker Hannifin in 2014. Before joining AMI, Xina was the Vice President of R&D at Cambrios, a venture-backed start-up where she led the efforts to pioneer the use of silver nanowires in transparent conductive inks. At Lumileds Lighting, a joint venture of Philips and Agilent Technologies, she managed the product development and release of novel high-power white LED products which are now used ubiquitously as cell-phone camera flash chips. The first start-up Xina worked with was DigiLens where she led the technical development of materials and processes for switchable holographic gratings. She was responsible for DigiLens’ acquisition by SBGLabs.