Darren Hau

Darren is the Founder and CEO of Halo Materials.

Darren brings over a decade of experience designing and deploying energy technologies. Most recently, he built multiple teams responsible for charging ops, product strategy, and fleet automation at Cruise, an all-electric autonomous vehicle company. His teams consistently beat NEVI standards for charging network uptime, piloted off-grid charging solutions with various startups, worked with Stanford researchers to commercialize an electric AV dispatch model, and designed and built in six months the first charging robot intended for wide scale deployment.

Prior to Cruise, Darren developed new Supercharger products at Tesla (https://www.linkedin.com/company/tesla-motors/) and deployed them globally. The modeling and simulation tools he built enabled better architectural decisions, rightsizing of electrical infrastructure, and optimization of solar and storage, resulting in tens of millions of dollars of annual savings.

He also served as an associate product manager at Schmidt Futures, where he led investments de-risking first-of-a-kind (FOAK) climate infrastructure. At the height of the COVID pandemic, he synthesized breaking research directly for Eric Schmidt, and partnered with the State of New York and various philanthropies and corporations to revitalize the state economy.

Previously, he co-founded Dragonfly Systems, a solar power electronics startup funded by the Department of Energy and acquired by SunPower.

Darren is the inventor of multiple U.S. patents in power electronics and EV charging, and holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University (https://www.linkedin.com/company/stanford-university/).