About

About LAVLE

LAVLE is a joint venture company that combines advanced energy storage technologies from the Japanese battery technology company 3DOM Inc. with the best-in-class marine engineering, design, and systems integration services of Ockerman Automation, in order to provide products and services to the defense, renewable energy, and marine transportation industries.

Locations

Anacortes, WA, USA – Headquarters; Ockerman Automation Consulting
Burlington, WA, USA – Assembly and Integration Facility
Newport News, VA, USA – Marine Electronic Propulsion Simulation Lab (MEPS Lab)
Tokyo, Japan – 3DOM Headquarters and Business Office
Yokohama, Japan – 3DOM R&D and Production

3DOM

About 3DOM, Inc.

3DOM, headquartered in Yokohama, Japan, is an entrepreneurial venture company developing pioneering battery technologies and energy storage solutions. 3DOM’s patented separator technology makes possible practical commercialization of lithium metal batteries, and together with the company’s other breakthrough battery technologies will facilitate electrification of next-generation transportation infrastructure.

Ockermasn Automation

About Ockerman Automation

Ockerman Automation is an Anacortes, Washington-based marine engineering and systems integration company that designs and helps install engines, generators, energy storage, control stations, and vessel bridge systems.

Leadership

Dr. Jason Nye

Jason Nye, PhD

Chief Executive Officer
Director

Dr. Jason Nye

Dr. Jason Nye is an international relations, trade, and investment executive with more than two decades of commercial and government experience. His proven track record of success in the private sector includes originating or directly managing foreign investment, joint venture creation, and sales efforts totaling over $55 billion.

Dr. Nye is also a Founding Director of Steelhead Global Advisors, a Founding Director of China Beige Book International, and was a partner with Avascent International until 2015. From 2002-2008, Dr. Nye served as a Division Chief within the U.S. Department of State. In addition to advising highest-level State Department and White House officials on political-military issues, his portfolio included advice related to international trade, energy security, and U.S. export control enforcement—subjects for which Dr. Nye was recognized as one of the U.S. government’s leading experts.

A graduate of Montana State University, Dr. Nye received his PhD from the University of St. Andrews (UK) in 2000. A sixth-generation Washingtonian, he has held academic and teaching posts at the University of St. Andrews and the University of Mainz (Germany), speaks German and was enlisted as a reconnaissance infantryman in the United States Marine Corps.

John Ockerman

John Ockerman

Chief Technology & Engineering Officer and Director;
President, Ockerman LLC

John Ockerman

In the 1980’s, John Ockerman began developing of a microprocessor-based digital data acquisition system with a unique graphical user interface. At that time, the company manufactured and produced several marine type-approved products distributed in the USA and abroad. From that beginning, Mr. Ockerman quickly emerged as a leader in the field of marine systems engineering & systems automation.

Mr. Ockerman has since been involved in many sophisticated and technically advanced vessels. He continuously improves the technical and application expertise required to design systems that embody the ideals of balanced levels of technology, human considerations, and application life cycle.

Matsumura

Masataka Matsumura

Director, Chief Executive Officer 3DOM

Masataka Matsumura

Masataka Matsumura is CEO of 3DOM Inc., LAVLE’s joint venture partner in Japan.  Mr. Matsumura concurrently serves as Representative Director of Future Science Research Inc., a Tokyo, Japan-based consulting firm that develops and executes 3DOM’s business plans.  He was previously Creative Director and Representative Director of a Japanese fashion brand, at which he had also been a designer, then started his own brand and engaged in management of the firm as Representative Director.  He is a graduate of American Intercontinental University London.

Prof. Kanamura

Kiyoshi Kanamura, PhD

Chief Technology Officer, 3DOM

Dr. Kiyoshi Kanamura

Dr. Kiyoshi Kanamura, Chief Technology Officer at 3DOM and Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, has led the development of 3DOM’s advanced battery technologies.

Dr. Kanamura holds hundreds of patents and is currently director of TMU’s Research Center for Building Hydrogen Energy Society. He has been a Professor in Applied Chemistry at TMU since 2004. He serves as a Member of the Electrochemical Society and the Chemical Society of Japan; a Director of the Inorganic Material Society; an Editor of the Functional Materials Journal; a Director of Electric Science Society; an Associate Editor of Chemistry Letter and a Member of Electric Safety Promotion Committee. Dr. Kanamura is the Group Leader of the Interface-Controlled Battery Materials Group, Batteries and Fuel Cells Field, GREEN, and the National Institute for Materials Science.

Dr. Kanamura holds a BS and a PhD from Kyoto University (Dept. of Industrial Chemistry, Faculty of Industrial Engineering) and completed a Postgraduate Course at Tokyo Metropolitan University.

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Toshiya Kuwamura

Executive Vice President, 3DOM Inc.

Toshiya Kuwamura

Toshiya Kuwamura serves as Executive Vice President of 3DOM. Mr. Kuwamura began his distinguished career in industrial Lithium ion battery development with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.  Early in his career at Matsushita, he formed an alliance with Kodak to develop and mass produce the first high-power, consumer, lithium battery, creating the foundation for the current Lithium ion battery industry. After working for many years as the head of technology development for Lithium ion batteries at Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd., he was promoted to General Manager of the Micro Battery Division for Panasonic Energy Corporation.  In this role he was responsible for the operation of Panasonic’s worldwide network of battery plants, as well as Panasonic’s technology and quality control divisions.  In February 2012 he joined Kureha Battery Materials Japan Co. Ltd., where he held a number of positions of progressively more responsibility, before moving to 3DOM Inc. in 2018.  He is a graduate of the Kyushu Institute of Technology Graduate School of Engineering, and holds an MA in Industrial Chemistry.

Allan Grant

Allan Grant

Executive Vice President

Allan Grant

Allan Grant is an experienced clean energy executive with over 30 years’ experience with BC Hydro in a variety of roles, from Resource Planner to Manager of BC Hydro’s Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Program. Grant also has over 7 years’ experience with Corvus Energy as Vice President, Business Development and Vice President, Global Customer Service. At LAVLE, he is responsible for product development, as well as the development of LAVLE’s manufacturing and integration facilities.

Sean Connell

Sean Connell

Vice President
Government & Public Relations

Sean Connell

Sean Connell is a public policy professional with two decades of experience bridging the international, federal, state and local levels.  Mr. Connell was previously Director for Japan and Korea at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC, and Executive Director of the U.S.-Korea Business Council, where he managed policy initiatives including the U.S. business community’s successful efforts to secure approval of the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement.  He has also served in local government and with the economic development community in Washington State, including leadership roles in international trade.  A recognized specialist in U.S. economic relations with Japan and Korea, Mr. Connell is a Senior Fellow of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation and has been a visiting fellow at leading U.S. and Japanese policy research organizations.

Mr. Connell holds a B.A. with High Honors from Wesleyan University and an M.A. in International Affairs from The George Washington University.  A fifth-generation Washingtonian, he serves on the board of directors of the Washington State China Relations Council and the Mount Baker Council, Boy Scouts of America, and on the national advisory committees of the Japan-America Student Conference and Korea-America Student Conference.

Counsel

Paul Brachvogel

General Counsel

Paul Brachvogel

Paul Brachvogel has practiced law since 1992, primarily on behalf of municipal governments, utilities, special purpose districts, and private corporations.  Mr. Brachvogel has significant experience advising elected officials, senior management, and governing bodies, having served as a city manager, city attorney for several jurisdictions, general counsel and director of administrative services for a public utility district, chief of legal affairs for a port district, and corporate general counsel.  His areas of practice include regulatory compliance, commercial transactions, renewable energy, legislative affairs, municipal law, environmental law, real state and land use.    

Mr. Brachvogel is a licensed attorney in the states of Washington, Colorado, and Oregon.  He has served as Trustee to the Washington State Bar Association, President of the Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Bar Association, Chair of the Washington Society of Municipal and PUD Attorneys.  He has served as a member of the Association of Corporate Counsels, Washington Public Ports Association Legal & Policy Committee, Northwest Public Power Association Government Relations Committee, Washington State Municipal Attorneys Association, and Board of Directors for the Mukilteo YMCA.

A native Washingtonian from Tacoma, Mr. Brachvogel holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Washington, an M.S. in Public Management from DePaul University, and a Juris Doctor from Whittier Law School.

Yutaka-Imaizumi

Yutaka Imaizumi

Vice President
Global Partnerships

Yutaka Imaizumi

Yutaka Imaizumi has more than 15 years of professional experience in the financial and information technology sectors, including in management roles in fund raising and fund management, business development, and sales and negotiation. Mr. Imaizumi joined the 3DOM project in 2014 at Future Science Research, Inc., a Tokyo, Japan-based company working to commercialize innovative next-generation technologies, where he supported 3DOM’s financial development. He previously served in sales and business development management roles for Lincrea Corporation in New York. At LAVLE, Mr. Imaizumi is responsible for developing LAVLE’s global supply chain.
A graduate of Hosei University, Mr. Imaizumi has also studied marine science at Coastal Carolina University, and is eager to contribute to global environmental conservation and reducing marine pollution.

Community

LAVLE is headquartered in Anacortes, Washington.

A historic maritime community, Anacortes hosts a comprehensive maritime technology and industry cluster, and together with Skagit County is home to innovative, world-leading advanced manufacturers across the marine, aerospace, and energy industries.

LAVLE is in Washington because of the state’s leadership in marine technology and design, and the state’s proactive efforts to accelerate innovation in both the maritime and clean energy sectors.

Partnerships

LAVLE is proud to be a founding industry member of the Washington Maritime Blue Cluster Organization.

This new partnership was launched in January 2019 to drive implementation of the Washington Maritime Blue strategy, which aims to accelerate the Blue Economy as a leader in maritime clean tech innovation and best management practices that will support a growing maritime economy in all sectors with increasing living-wage jobs, a healthy environment, and resilient communities.