Tom Keister

Tom has been leading groundbreaking teams in the power electronics industry for over 30 years and has 33 patents granted or pending. Prior to founding Resilient Power, he started a new division at TECO-Westinghouse near Austin, TX, USA, where he led the team from no electronic products at all to $20M in sales after 5 years. Tom has been a lead advisor to the U.S. Dept of Energy for over 10 years and was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Tom led the team that built the Duke Energy eGRID 20MW inverter benchmark system, which was part of a $100M Dept of Energy project at the Dominion Energy Innovation Center. The last company Tom founded is now owned by the $67B Eaton Corporation, which continues to use the same products today. He used his B.S. in Electrical Engineering to receive many accolades including engineer of the year award in General Electric's industrial power division.