Electric Hydrogen

Raffi Garabedian spent over a decade at First Solar developing thin-film solar technology, eventually serving as the company's Chief Technology Officer. He previously founded and was CEO of Touchdown Technologies, a semiconductor process company. Garabedian and David Eaglesham co-founded Electric Hydrogen in 2019 to apply the cost-reduction playbook from the solar industry to green hydrogen electrolyzers. His manufacturing and commercialization expertise — earned scaling First Solar's cadmium-telluride panels to gigawatt volumes — underpins Electric Hydrogen's industrial approach to electrolyzer cost and performance.

David Eaglesham served as the founding CTO of First Solar, where he was instrumental in developing and scaling the company's thin-film solar manufacturing process. He subsequently became an Entrepreneur in Residence at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Bill Gates' climate fund, where he researched low-cost hydrogen production pathways. That research led him to co-found Electric Hydrogen in 2019 alongside Raffi Garabedian. As CTO, Eaglesham directs electrolyzer technology and stack development, drawing on two decades of experience translating laboratory materials science into manufacturable, cost-competitive energy hardware.

Derek Warnick co-founded Electric Hydrogen in 2019 and serves as Chief Financial Officer. He brings more than fifteen years of experience in clean energy finance, having advised on project financing, tax equity structures, and capital markets transactions across the renewable energy sector prior to joining the founding team. Warnick oversees Electric Hydrogen's financial strategy and capital raising as the company scales electrolyzer manufacturing capacity toward industrial green hydrogen supply for hard-to-decarbonize sectors.