Articles from Focused Energy
Focused Energy is advancing the industrialization of laser fusion and expanding its executive leadership team. Debbie Callahan has been appointed Chief Strategic Officer (CSO), while Omar Biabani assumes the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The world-leading laser fusion company is focused on developing industrially scalable, high-precision fusion targets and the laser systems precisely matched to them.
By Focused Energy · Via Business Wire · December 17, 2025

The inertial fusion energy company Focused Energy welcomes Scott Mercer as CEO, furthering its position as a leader in the burgeoning global fusion industry. Scott, as founder and CEO of Volta Charging, built an innovative business model that brought new revenue opportunities to the hard-to-commercialize energy-critical industry of public charging. He’ll bring that same creative skill and innovation acumen to bear on another energy-critical and hard-to-commercialize industry: fusion.
By Focused Energy · Via Business Wire · February 28, 2024

Focused Energy and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have signed a Strategic Partnership Project Agreement for LLNL to assist the American-German fusion company with developing and assessing the performance of isochoric compression target designs for inertial fusion energy.
By Focused Energy · Via Business Wire · November 7, 2023

Focused Energy, a laser-based fusion startup, is proud to announce Dr. Pravesh Patel as its new CTO. In his new role, Dr. Patel will lead the company’s science and technology strategic planning and execution, developing the path to the commercialization of fusion energy.
By Focused Energy · Via Business Wire · September 15, 2023

Focused Energy, the German American fusion startup whose investors include Prime Movers Lab, Alex Rodriguez, Marc Lore, and Tony Florence of New Enterprise Associates, is celebrating the progress it has made toward an inexhaustible clean energy source in the past year.
By Focused Energy · Via Business Wire · July 21, 2022