VSParticle Strengthens Leadership Team to Accelerate Commercial Scale-Up

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The company appoints a new President & COO and realigns its senior leadership as it prepares for industrial deployment and long-term partnership agreements.

VSParticle is strengthening its leadership team as it prepares for industrial deployment and long-term partnership agreements. The appointment of a new President & COO and the realignment of senior leadership reflect the company’s transition toward commercial deployment.

Over the past years, VSParticle has validated its dry deposition technology across multiple applications, supported by expanding customer partnerships and increasingly advanced commercial discussions.

With strong results demonstrated in material research, electrocatalysis including PEM water electrolysis, and gas sensing, the company is now sharpening its focus on securing offtake agreements and further commercializing its nanoporous layer deposition technology. The company is also preparing for its next fundraising round focusing on further market penetration and scaling and optimizing the technology for key applications.

Building on the existing momentum, VSParticle expects to expand its internal deposition service capabilities by up to 100X in 2026, enabling the delivery of ultra-low iridium catalyst layers on large substrates for industrial deployment and supporting customers as they move toward commercial-scale adoption.

New Leadership Appointments

As part of the company's new transition, Hanna Granö-Fabritius has joined VSParticle as President & COO to drive operational execution and commercial deployment.  

Berend van der Grinten is assigned the CTO role, leading the technology development and scaling for industrial deployment.  

Two of the founding members are also moving into new roles with Dr. Tobias Pfeiffer taking on the role as  Chief Innovation Officer, concentrating on connecting the company's core technology with novel user applications and Tobias Coppejans stepping into the role of Chief Information Officer, overseeing initiatives such as digitalization, AI datasets and self-driving labs as well as the company’s digital infrastructure, and information systems.

Recent collaborations with industry leaders like Plug Power and the University of Delaware in late 2025 demonstrated that significant iridium reduction can be achieved while maintaining the durability and current density required for commercial PEM electrolyzers.

In the domain of AI and automated material discovery, the company has also collaborated with Meta's AI Research team and the University of Toronto to synthesize a large open-source experimental dataset for clean energy applications, demonstrating the platform's potential across multiple electrocatalysis applications. This capability has now advanced further with the deployment of the Multi VSP-G1 systems installed at the Technical University of Denmark and UL Research Institutes, enabling high-throughput exploration of complex and multi component material combinations.

With technology validation showing strong results, capacity expansion underway, and leadership aligned around execution, VSParticle is well-positioned for long-term industrial deployment.