Kenan E. Sahin

Dr. Kenan E. Sahin is the founder and president of TIAX and CAMX Power both in Lexington, Massachusetts. He is an academic, scientist, inventor, technologist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. His BS and PhD are from MIT. He taught at MIT, Harvard, UMass Amherst, and Robert College of Istanbul. At MIT, he received the Nicolas Salgo Distinguished Teacher Award. He has published numerous articles, lectured widely, and holds many fundamental patents. He founded Kenan Systems with personal funds to test his teachings, learnings and hypotheses in industry, grew it to 1,000 staff globally, sold it to Lucent/Bell Labs (1999) becoming a Bell Labs VP and a group president of Lucent Communications Software. His unrestricted gift to MIT in 1999 was the largest until then. The Arbor/BP Telecommunications platform developed at Kenan Systems based on early forms of AI, renamed Kenan/BP by Lucent, now serves over one billion telecom subscribers globally. Shortly after leaving Lucent/Bell Labs, he founded TIAX (2002) which purchased the lab-based Technology and Innovation (T&I) unit of the fabled Arthur D. Little, Inc. (ADL) established by Mr. Little in 1886, run by him until 1935, owned by MIT until the 50’s, then becoming an employee-owned global company. After 116 years of successful operations, it ceased with its various divisions sold, one unit being T&I, the “classical” ADL. Dr. Sahin transformed the TIAX/T&I combination to mature select early-stage technologies in energy, chemistry, materials, and functional wearables to be IP-protected, de-risked, and production-ready for its industry partners to make and sell. In 2014, he spun out certain electromechanical and electrochemistry technologies in a separate company, CAMX Power. Globally patented CAMX cathode chemistry inventions, licensed by Samsung, LG Energy Solution, Umicore, BASF, and others have become central to Lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, minimizing Cobalt, increasing performance and reducing costs. TIAX-developed products are in wide use in industry and by the Air Force and the Navy. Both companies are evolving successfully. Dr. Sahin has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, received the New England Business and Technology Circle of Excellence Award, the Golden Door award by International Institute of Boston, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor (entered into the Congressional records) and other awards. He serves/served on the boards of MIT (life member), Argonne National Lab, Boston Symphony (Advisory), Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Advisory), American Field Service (AFS), and others. He lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts, works in Lexington, Massachusetts, vacations in Kennebunkport, Maine, and in Bodrum, Turkey. He is active outdoors, travels globally, and has a wide range of interests.