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After 25 years steering TAE Technologies toward hydrogen-boron fusion — a no-radioactive-waste approach backed by $1.2 billion from Google, Chevron, and sovereign funds — Binderbauer has also spun off viable businesses in cancer treatment and energy storage while the core science matures.
Michl Binderbauer is CEO of TAE Technologies, a fusion energy company he joined in 1998 and has led since 2019.
TAE pursues hydrogen-boron fusion using field-reversed configuration technology and has raised over $1.2 billion from investors including Google, Chevron, the Kuwait Investment Authority, and Sumitomo. The company has spun off TAE Power Solutions and TAE Life Sciences. Binderbauer earned his PhD in physics from UC Irvine.
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