Full Name
Marvi Matos Rodriguez
Job Title
Senior Vice President of Technology
Company
ZAP Energy
Speaker Bio
Marvi Matos Rodriguez serves as Senior Vice President of Technology at Zap Energy.
Prior to Zap, Matos Rodriguez directed systems engineering, integration, test, and digital transformation at Boeing. She led Boeing's company-wide Design Practices initiative, overseeing the creation and coordination of people, processes, training, tools, and authored practices across the ecosystem. She also led chemical technologies, metals, and ceramics within Boeing Research and Technology.
Also within the aerospace industry, she served as director of the crew capsule engineering team at Blue Origin and led verification work aligned with the first human flight of the New Shepard rocket and the organization of materials and processes at the same company.
Matos Rodriguez currently serves on the National Science Board, which establishes the policies of the U.S. National Science Foundation, and serves as advisor to Congress and the President. She is an award-winning scientist who holds nine U.S. patents, and taught chemical engineering courses at the University of Washington, where she led Gates Foundation-funded bioengineering research developing novel diagnostic tools.
Matos Rodriguez earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, a M.S. in Colloids, Polymers, and Surfaces, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and an Executive MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Prior to Zap, Matos Rodriguez directed systems engineering, integration, test, and digital transformation at Boeing. She led Boeing's company-wide Design Practices initiative, overseeing the creation and coordination of people, processes, training, tools, and authored practices across the ecosystem. She also led chemical technologies, metals, and ceramics within Boeing Research and Technology.
Also within the aerospace industry, she served as director of the crew capsule engineering team at Blue Origin and led verification work aligned with the first human flight of the New Shepard rocket and the organization of materials and processes at the same company.
Matos Rodriguez currently serves on the National Science Board, which establishes the policies of the U.S. National Science Foundation, and serves as advisor to Congress and the President. She is an award-winning scientist who holds nine U.S. patents, and taught chemical engineering courses at the University of Washington, where she led Gates Foundation-funded bioengineering research developing novel diagnostic tools.
Matos Rodriguez earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, a M.S. in Colloids, Polymers, and Surfaces, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and an Executive MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
