A-01
Boruch Epstein
Advisor · Materials, vacuum & engineering
Oxford DPhil in materials science. Advises Laurelin on materials and vacuum systems for extreme environments, mechanical design, fabrication, and test discipline.
§ VI · Founder
Joseph S. Finberg
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Joe is Laurelin's sole founder. He leads the company and the program from architecture through capital formation, recruiting, and execution.
Founder-led · San Francisco, USA
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The founder
Joe leads the company and the program.
Joe studied physics and philosophy at Columbia and Oxford, spent four years in fusion-energy research, and more than six years in quantitative trading. He founded Laurelin to build a compact pulsed deuterium–deuterium fusion architecture around a transportable reactor-core envelope.
At Laurelin, Joe authored the company whitepaper and developed the component blueprints, patent claim map, and procurement plan. He owns the architectural thesis, company strategy, capital formation, recruiting, and the execution sequence that turns the program into measured hardware.
- Role
- Sole Founder & Chief Executive Officer
- Education
- Columbia & Oxford · Physics & Philosophy
- Prior work
- Fusion-energy research · Quantitative trading
- Program
- Architecture · Capital · Recruiting · Execution
Advisors · A-01—A-03
Advisory expertise around the founder.
The people below advise Joe and Laurelin in defined areas. They are presented here in an advisory capacity, separate from the founder role.
A-02
Ian P. Hause
Advisor · Operations & capital
Advises the company on operating discipline, financing, and capital posture, drawing on experience across traditional and renewable energy investing and deal structuring.
A-03
Victoria Azizova
Advisor · Partnerships
Advises Laurelin on partnerships, international collaboration, and energy-access strategy. Her background includes work with NREL, the United Nations, and TerraVantage Consulting.
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Build directly with the founder.
Laurelin is hiring its first technical team in San Francisco. The work is on-site, hands-on, and organized around decisive hardware evidence.
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