Joseph van Dokkum

Joseph van Dokkum is chairman of Imperative Science Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on scientific breakthroughs. From 2009 to 2019, he was an operating partner with Kleiner Perkins in Menlo Park, Calif., where he worked closely with his investment partners and the leadership of their start-up and growth portfolio companies to accelerate commercialization and scale the businesses. Before that, van Dokkum served for seven years as president of UTC Power, a division of United Technologies Corporation (NYSE: UTX), where he was instrumental in organically growing UTC Power’s power generation products and service offerings, including fuel cells, renewable power solutions, and combined cooling, heating and power applications for the commercial building markets. Prior to UTC Power, Mr. van Dokkum was with Siemens (OTC: SIEGY) for 17 years. Joseph serves on the boards of Ionic Materials, Inc. since 2013 and Ndustrial since 2017, and served as a director on the board of Solidia Technologies from 2011 until his retirement in December 2021. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the Institute of Technology, Albertus Magnus. van Dokkum was selected to serve on the board due to his extensive leadership experience and industry knowledge.