Benjamin Bollinger leads strategic initiatives at Malta Inc., a venture-funded Long-Duration Energy Storage startup company developing a 100 MW, 10 h Pumped Heat Energy Storage system. Ben has worked in Long-Duration Energy Storage and technology development within early-stage startup companies since 2007, when he co-founded a company that developed Isothermal Compressed Air Energy Storage. His background is in systems engineering and multi-domain system modeling. Ben received his PhD in engineering sciences from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, and his BA from Dartmouth College