About ePlant
ePlant’s veteran engineers and scientists have a passion for unlocking insights by developing state-of-the-art sensing platforms. They founded ePlant to revolutionize the way plant data are collected, understood, and applied at scale. The ePlant TreeTag system is the first realization of that vision.
ePlant TreeTags not only monitors plants, they turn them into environmental sensors. Real-time data are fed to the cloud where it is organized, stored, and analyzed. These data support applications in agriculture, arboriculture, forestry, government, risk management, and consumer spaces.
The ePlant Team
Board of Directors
Graham Hine
Graham has decades of experience with innovative sensing platforms and robotics. He has broad management and operational expertise and is well acquainted with building successful companies from the ground up. Previously Graham was CEO for Liquid Robotics after it was acquired by the Boeing Company.
Joseph Rizzi
Joe was a general partner at Matrix Partners LLP, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. While at Matrix he helped launch and was on the board of many small and large companies. He also founded and ran several companies in Silicon Valley.
Roger Hine
Roger serves as the company’s chief inventor and architect, bringing his talent as an inventor and his years of designing sensing systems to the team. He was founding CEO of Liquid Robotics and chief inventor of the Wave Glider technology. Roger has a MS in Mechatronics from Stanford University.
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Tim Richardson
Tim has the leadership experience and significant network of connections to help guide the company to success. He was CEO of Microlinear, a public company, and has extensive experience in marketing, business operations, and executive management.
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Russell Tillitt
Russell is an accomplished entrepreneur and tech executive with a 25-year track record of data-driven solutions. As CEO of Embee Mobile, he led the company from its inception to a successful acquisition by Similarweb in 2021. Russell has proven himself as an innovator, strategist, and business leader.
Key Team Members
David Walker, Ph.D.
David oversees hardware and electronics development. He has led hardware and electronics organizations at multiple companies, and his designs are present in some of the most accomplished robotics in the world. He brings wide-ranging design experience, from silicon to system-level electronics, and will architect the low-cost, highly-capable electronics the ePlant requires.
Kurt Kiesow
Kurt brings a wealth of experience in sales and marketing, as well as project and product management to his role at ePlant. He is developing innovative approaches and elevating customer service to the highest level. He is experienced with RF networking and wireless communications and versed in system integration and testing. He has been a founder of multiple organizations and manager at large companies.
Kevin Rea
Kevin has deep technical and engineering management expertise. He has been a software developer, system architect, director, VP of engineering, CTO and founder at several Silicon Valley startups.
Bruce Kamolnick
Bruce brings more than 15 years’ experience to the CFO role, both as VP of Finance and as the key company administrator handling HR, insurance, payroll, and virtually all duties that fall outside of the engineering and sales groups. He was a co-founder and founding CFO of Liquid Robotics.
Strategic Advisory Board
Ronald Welten
Ron has worked for Syngenta, United Genetics Seeds, Co., Enza Zaden Research and operates his own diverse farm. He has wide expertise in crop and agricultural testing.
Alexa Harter
Dr. Harter is Regents' Researcher and Director of the Cybersecurity Research Laboratory at GTRI, an applied R&D center that is part of Georgia Tech. She was instrumental in initiating and developing the DNA archival data storage and quantum systems research programs at GTRI.
Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh
Dr. Van Volkenburgh led the Plant Growth Lab and taught Plant Physiology and Behavior at the University of Washington. She is the President of the Society for Plant Signaling and Behavior, and has research expertise in tolerance of crops and trees to water deficit and other environmental stressors.
Matthew Ritter
Heading the Ritter Lab at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and advising the company in both urban and wildlands forestry, Dr. Ritter is a widely respected researcher and educator and author of textbooks on California Native Trees.
