Andrea Pedretti has collaborated with Bill Gross over the years on innovations in the clean tech space and co-founded Energy Vault with Bill. Andrea was the founder and CTO of Airlight Energy, a CSP company using pneumatic mirror and precast concrete structures delivering extremely low-cost solar plus storage. He has been co-founder and CTO of a number of technology companies and holds over 30 patents for a variety of civil engineering and energy applications. Andrea holds an MS in structural engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich.