Founder / CEO
Marc Ordoñez
Marc Ordoñez has been building things for as long as he can remember. As a kid, that instinct showed up as taking apart electronics to understand how they worked. As an engineer, it evolved into designing the systems that move energy itself.
Marc founded Polyax with a clear objective: build power electronics platforms that enable the next generation of energy infrastructure. At the company, he leads the development of modular high-voltage conversion systems designed to bridge grid, storage, generation, and high-power loads.
Before Polyax, Marc led a power electronics team at TWMC, helping scale the business from $3M to $60M in annual revenue while securing multiple multimillion-dollar grants and projects. Outside of engineering, Marc channels that same drive for precision and challenge into aerial arts, skiing, scuba diving, and building experimental software projects.
Co-Founder / Chief Strategy Officer
Evie Loper
Evie Loper has a system for everything. Whether it is a company operating model, a training program, a knowledge management architecture, or a Formula 1 sleep schedule, she approaches complex problems the same way: break them down, build the right structure, and let the system do the work.
At Polyax, Evie designs the company's operating architecture, partnership strategy, and commercialization pathways for next-generation power electronics platforms.
Before co-founding Polyax, she led strategic partner initiatives inside a Fortune 50 environment, managing Comcast's largest national distributor partnership and directing more than $14M in performance and incentive programs. With a background in Computer Software Engineering with an emphasis in AI, Evie is most comfortable where complexity lives.
Lead Embedded Software Engineer
Steven Haertling
Steven Haertling has engineered the perfect cup of coffee. His espresso setup is a custom-modified machine connected to a smart home system he built himself, allowing him to control temperature, timing, and extraction with the same precision he brings to embedded systems.
At Polyax, Steven leads embedded software development for the control systems that operate the company's high-frequency power electronics platforms. He previously served as a Lead Software Engineer in the power electronics group at TWMC, where he specialized in high-frequency embedded technology and advanced control architectures.
Whether it is a converter control loop or a morning espresso shot, Steven approaches engineering the same way: understand the system, instrument it properly, and optimize until it performs exactly the way it should.
Lead Systems Engineer
David Miller
David Miller's path into power electronics started with a different kind of problem: why data centers lose power. Early in his career, David worked at a reliability engineering company diagnosing and solving power issues in Dell data centers in the Austin area.
That experience gave him a front-row seat to the realities of large-scale electrical infrastructure and the consequences when it fails. He later moved into designing the systems themselves, serving as Lead Electrical Engineer at TWMC before joining Polyax.
Today he leads system architecture and electrical design for Polyax's modular high-voltage power platforms. Outside of engineering, David collects classic video games and physical media, tends to an ever-growing collection of plants, and grows dragon fruit.