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David Chen

Senior Manager on Murata Electronics Americas Corporate Venturing Team

David’s responsibilities include reviewing promising new scientific research areas, understanding market dynamics, regulatory frameworks, investment trends.

Murata’s broad portfolio David brings over 15 years of direct utility, electricity, and environment experience to help Murata identify and evaluate new markets, technologies, and opportunities in the environment and energy space. David’s responsibilities include reviewing promising new scientific research areas, understanding market dynamics, regulatory frameworks, investment trends, and aligning that information with internal goals, priorities, and capabilities. David’s areas of interest include hydrogen, circular economy, carbon markets, carbon capture, direct air capture, geothermal, blue carbon, industrial energy efficiency, and net-zero strategies. David’s outside interests include DIY projects around the home, climbing, and volunteering at educational nonprofit organizations and meals on wheels.

Murata Electronics

Established in 1944, Murata Manufacturing is a worldwide leader in research, design, manufacture and sale of ceramic based passive electronic components, power supply and wireless module solutions. With annual revenues in excess of $7 billion dollars, Murata is committed to the environmentally conscious development and stable supply of advanced electronic materials, leading edge electronic components, and multi-functional, high-density modules. Products include monolithic ceramic capacitors, polymer aluminum electrolytic capacitors, electrical double-layer capacitor (EDLC), noise suppression products/EMI suppression filters, inductors, resistor products, resonators, filters, RF components, communication and wireless module solutions, sensors, thermistors, DC-DC converters, AC-DC power supplies, sound components, piezo actuators, micro mechatronics products, ceramic applied products, and RFID solutions. Murata’s products are found in a wide range of applications including consumer, mobile communications, computers and networking equipment, automotive electronics, advanced metering equipment, digital home electronics, lighting and illumination, and healthcare devices. Murata has employees and manufacturing facilities throughout the world.

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