Impossible Metals / Management
The people behind
the progress.
Meet the people leading Impossible Metals.
01 / Management
Leadership.
Steve Curnutte
Executive Chairman & CEO
Steve Curnutte is a technology investor, entrepreneur and executive with more than three decades of experience building, financing and scaling businesses across industrial technology, manufacturing, energy and financial services. He founded Tortola Advisors and Capstan Fund, combining operational leadership with strategic investment. Steve is a graduate of Wake Forest University.
LinkedIn ↗Mike Regan
President & Chief Growth Officer
Mike Regan brings experience across venture capital, real estate finance, sales and industrial innovation, including robotics, mining, energy and infrastructure. His work spans capital strategy, commercial partnerships and market positioning, connecting technical development with the investors and partners needed to support it.
LinkedIn ↗Jason Gillham
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer
Jason Gillham is a co-founder of Impossible Metals and a subsea robotics entrepreneur. He has built and led technical teams developing subsea systems, including deep-sea optical imagery and measurement. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Applied Science from the University of Waterloo.
LinkedIn ↗Marco Larsen
Chief Marketing Officer
Marco Larsen brings a background in strategic communications and brand strategy through PUBLIC. His work focuses on helping ambitious brands clarify their positioning and leadership communications. He has also served as a guest lecturer at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where PUBLIC’s PANIC Brand Metrics approach has been taught.
LinkedIn ↗02 / Advisors to the CEO
Experience to draw on.
Oliver Gunasekara
Founder & Advisor to the CEO
Oliver Gunasekara is a co-founder of Impossible Metals and a technology entrepreneur whose career includes mobile business development and corporate development at ARM. He founded cloud video acceleration company NGCodec, acquired by Xilinx in 2019. He holds an honors degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Greenwich.
LinkedIn ↗Dr. Lewis Pinault
Advisor to the CEO
Lewis Pinault brings more than two decades of experience investing in and working with science and technology startups. Trained as an MIT engineer and NASA geophysicist, his background includes Airbus Ventures, Shell’s open innovation initiatives and The Boston Consulting Group. He also maintains research connections with UCL’s Centre for Planetary Sciences.
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