Energous Corporation announced the appointments of Bob Friday, Alessandro Piovaccariand Mark Tyndallto the Energous Board of Advisors. The new Board of Advisor appointments are announced amidst an expanding IoT ecosystem – expected to grow from 12 billion devices in 2021 to nearly 40 billion in 2025, according to IDC – whose reliance on batteries that require replacement or cumbersome charging cables presents logistical problems and hidden costs to IT teams in any large-scale industrial or retail IoT deployment. Energous' WattUp technology solves these challenges by delivering reliable and consistent RF-based wireless power to multiple devices simultaneously at-a-distance, supporting the higher levels of power needed by today's devices and tomorrow's innovations.

Friday is group vice president, chief AI officer at Juniper and CTO at Juniper‘s AI-Driven Enterprise business unit, which develops Marvis, a self-driving networking artificial intelligence/machine learning solution for enterprises. He was co-founder, vice president, and chief technology officer at Mist, which was purchased by Juniper Networks in April of 2019. He started his career in wireless at Metricom (Ricochet wireless network), developing and deploying wireless mesh networks across the country to connect the first generation of Internet browsers.

Following Metricom, Friday co-founded Airespace, a start-up focused on helping enterprises manage the flood of employees bringing unlicensed WiFi technology into their businesses. Piovaccari previously served as Silicon Labs' chief technology officer and senior vice president of central R&D and was responsible for the company's product research and development. He currently serves as the vice president of conferences for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and a visiting fellow in approaches, methods and practices in circuit design in leading fabless companies at the University of Bologna in Italy.

Additionally, he is a member of multiple startups and education advisory boards. From 2008 to 2021, Tyndall was senior vice president of corporate development and strategy at Dialog Semiconductor and a key member of the management team transitioning the company from a sub-$100 million valuation to a recent trade sale to Renesas for $6 billion. From 2006 to 2008 he was vice president of business development and corporate relations at MIPS Technologies, and prior to this he served as vice president of business development at Infineon since 1999.