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Ernst Van Nierop

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Senior Director, Segment & Strategy at Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc.
📍 United States

Ernst van Nierop serves as the Senior Director of Segment & Strategy at Sila, focusing on engineering advanced battery materials. A Harvard PhD graduate, he excels at building functions from the ground up, having established both the Product Management and Strategy teams at Sila after a role as VP of Scaling at GitLab.

The unifying theme of his work is building for whats needed most in ambitious startups, whether that involves developing new teams and processes or owning critical problems that might otherwise be overlooked.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Senior Director, Segment & Strategy
Job Level
Senior
Location
United States
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Battery Technology
He leads strategy at Sila, a company engineering materials to set a new standard for batteries and power the future, particularly for electric vehicles.
Go-to-Market Strategy
He built and leads the strategy function at Sila, focusing on market analysis, competitive intelligence, and designing the company's commercial approach.
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Work history

10-2025
Senior Director, Segment & Strategy
Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc.
7-2020 - 10-2025
Director of Strategy
Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc.
1-2018 - 7-2020
Head of Product
Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc.
3-2025
Board Member
Monte Caldera Technologies Inc.
9-2015 - 1-2018
VP of Scaling
GitLab, Inc.
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Education
2004 - 2009
PhD
Harvard University
1997 - 2003
MSc
University of Twente
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