Sergey Samoilenkov is the CEO of Faraday 1867 Holdings LLC, a US-based company whose main asset is Faraday Factory Japan, the world’s largest manufacturer of high-temperature superconductors (HTS) for fusion. In 1999, he earned a PhD degree from Moscow State University on REBCO high-temperature superconductor thin films and functional coatings. He has co-authored over 120 research papers and over 15 patents on HTS materials. Tokyo-area-based Faraday Factory Japan LLC has developed a successful pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technology, which has operated 24/7 for the last several years and delivered many thousands of km of HTS tape to the fusion industry.