Founder and CEO

DR. ROZHIN ESKANDARPOUR

Dr. Rozhin Eskandarpour founded Resilient Entanglement with the goal of creating the quantum smart grid of the 21st century. Her mission is to promote cutting-edge research and development in smart grids, enable unique development opportunities otherwise inaccessible to the industry, accelerate innovation in science and engineering, and help electric utilities safeguard against emerging extreme weather events brought on by climate change.

She is a senior member of the IEEE and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Boulder. She completed her Postdoctoral Research at the University of Denver, and her research interests span the areas of quantum computing and artificial intelligence applications in designing the smart grid of the future. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. 

Advisor Board Chair

JOHN D. MACDONALD, P.E.

John D. McDonald, P.E., is Founder & CEO of JDM Associates, LLC. He has 50 years of experience in the electric utility transmission and distribution industry. John is Past President of the IEEE PES, the VP for Technical Activities for the US National Committee (USNC) of CIGRE, the Past Chair of the IEEE PES Substations Committee, the IEEE Division VII Past Director, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. John was on the Board of Governors of the IEEE-SA (Standards Association), is an IEEE Foundation Director and Vice President of Development, and is a Founding Board Member of the SECC.

John is a Life Fellow of IEEE (member for 53 years), member of IEEE-HKN (inducted 53 years ago) and Tau Beta Pi (inducted 51 years ago), member of the Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity, and was awarded the IEEE Millennium Medal, the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering Award, the IEEE PES Substations Committee Distinguished Service Award and, the IEEE PES Meritorious Service Award.

John teaches Smart Grid courses at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and Smart Grid courses for various IEEE PES local chapters as an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer (since 1999). John has published one hundred fifty papers and articles, has co-authored five books and has one US patent.

Mergers & Acquisitions

BRENT FASSETT

Brent Fassett is a corporate partner in the Boulder office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he represents emerging growth companies and the investors that support them. He specializes in venture capital financings, public and private merger and acquisition transactions, IPOs, licensing and commercial agreements, employee compensation plans, public company reporting and disclosure issues, and securities law compliance. 
 
He has also counseled numerous investors, including angels, venture capital funds, and investment banks. He represented these investors in seed round investments, later stage private transactions, including managed private placements and leveraged buyouts, and public offerings of equity and debt securities.

Patent Strategy Attorney

DR. ALI R. ALEMOZAFAR

Dr. Ali R. Alemozafar is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he focuses on strategic intellectual property counseling in a wide range of technical fields, including diagnostics, tools, genomics, digital health, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, materials and various engineering fields. His expertise includes patent strategy, patent prosecution, and patent diligence—including freedom-to-operate analyses—for financings, mergers and acquisitions, and public offerings. Ali has prepared and prosecuted patent applications in the United States and other jurisdictions, including Europe, China, and Japan. He provides legal counseling to companies at various stages of growth, from pre-financing start-ups to public companies.
 
Prior to joining the firm, Ali worked on data warehousing, business intelligence, and enterprise data integration. He frequently lectures at the UC Berkeley School of Law and University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, on various intellectual property topics, including patent strategy and IP due diligence.

Patents & Innovations Associate

DR. MADELINE ELKINS

Dr. Madeline Elkins is an associate in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the patents and innovations practice. She focuses on patent prosecution and due diligence matters in the fields of medical devices and medical imaging, quantum computing (trapped atom, annealing, software, and quantum computing as a service), optical coherence tomography, holography, Fourier microscopy, electron microscopy, image analysis software, diagnostic software, digital health, and semiconductor fabrication.

During her doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in the group of Daniel Neumark, Madeline's research focused on the relaxation dynamics of solvated electrons in liquid microjets. Prior to joining the firm, Madeline was a research fellow at Princeton University, where her research focused on quantum coherence and charge localization in artificial light harvesting materials, including organic and polymeric semiconductors and perovskites.

Business Advisor

EVA YAO

Eva Yao is an entrepreneurial-minded business advisor, startup operator, and angel investor. She is an active participant and builder of Colorado’s entrepreneurial ecosystems through advising founders, fostering novel connections, commercializing cutting-edge technologies, and investing in next-generation technologies.

Prior to moving into industry, she was a business professor researching and teaching entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Eva received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Washington in Seattle and her Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Renmin University of China.

Senior Software Developer

FRED RASHIDZADEH

Fred is a Software Developer focused on Resilient Entanglement’s technical operations — maintaining, updating, and enhancing our systems using the latest technologies. He plays a key role in optimizing performance, implementing secure and scalable solutions, and ensuring that all digital platforms meet the highest standards of efficiency, usability, and reliability. Fred is also involved in streamlining development workflows and introducing modern practices to support the growth and resilience of our tech infrastructure.