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Jay Manley is a Co-founder and the CEO of MP Space.

A mechatronics and robotics engineer by training and with eight years of experience across Tesla Powertrain and Energy engineering in the Bay Area.

At Tesla, Jay worked as a technical program manager in the core team that helped build the modern energy storage market, contributing to major products including Powerwall 2 and Powerwall 3.

He helped take gigawatt-hours of power and energy systems from concept through to mass production, later leading mechanical engineering teams and working as Critical Programs Manager to Energy Engineering leadership.

Jay relocated back to Sydney in 2021 and founded MP Space from Australia. A lifelong space nerd, he started the company to help build the infrastructure required for a multi-planetary future.

Sam Paterson is a co-founder of MP Space and the company’s Chief Commercial Officer.

A mechanical engineer by training, Sam has spent his career taking hardware from concept to mass production across some of the most demanding manufacturing environments in the world, working at Tesla, Apple and Zoox while living in the SF Bay Area between 2015 and mid-2020.

At Tesla, Sam delivered multiple generations of Model S and Model X battery packs and took the Model 3 battery from concept through to mass manufacture. In his capacity as Engineering Program Manager, Sam led cross-functional execution and delivery of complex engineering programs involving hundreds of engineers. After a short time at Apple, Sam again sought out a more fast-paced environment and next moved to Zoox to help scale autonomous driving technology, growing the data collection fleet from 10 to 50 vehicles as the company progressed from Series B through to its acquisition by Amazon in 2020.

Sam joined Sydney-based seed-stage startup, Vow, as Head of Strategy and Head of Manufacturing in 2022, where he built the manufacturing and process development team that delivered the world’s first commercially viable cell-cultivated meat products. In his 2-years at Vow, Sam stood up two factories, and lifted production volume by three orders of magnitude while cutting COGS by the same factor.

Sam founded MP Space in January 2024 with Jay and now leads the commercial function. Sam leads holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) from UNSW.

Manufacturing & Mechanical Lead.

Michael Moorhead is an accomplished engineer and a key member of the founding team at MP Space, leveraging deep technical expertise in mechanical design, manufacturing, and test engineering. He has a background in automotive design and rotating systems from his undergraduate and graduate mechanical engineering degrees at The Ohio State University which led him to powertrain integration engineering for heavy duty trucks at Paccar, conveyor belt design for a startup in the mining industry, rotary gas meter design for General Electric, and then back to the automotive sector for Tesla, where he led teams dedicated to test engineering and to designing, building, and deploying cutting-edge powertrain testing and manufacturing equipment.

Michael relocated to Sydney in 2019 and joined the APAC Energy division at Tesla to lead EPC projects for large scale utility Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) projects, most notably the Victorian Big Battery, a 300MW/470MWh system consisting of 210 Telsa Megapacks.

Michael joined with Jay and Sam at MP Space near the company’s inception in 2024 to lead mechanical and manufacturing engineering as well as production.

Jimit Doshi is the Firmware & Architecture Lead at MP Space.

An electrical and electronics engineer by training, Jimit has more than 15 years of experience in embedded systems and power electronics firmware, from safety-critical automotive ECUs to autonomous drones and grid-scale energy storage.

He spent nearly eight years at Tesla as a Staff Firmware Engineer in Energy Products, owning three generations of bi-directional, battery-coupled DC/DC converters used in the V3 Supercharger, Megapack, and Powerpack, from board bring-up to customer deployment. He also hired, led, and mentored a team of engineers. At Zipline, he took on firmware leadership for the battery and power distribution systems on the P2 delivery platform, designing its charging architecture and overseeing the build-up of manufacturing test stations. Earlier in his career, he worked across a range of consumer, industrial, and automotive products, in roles spanning hardware, firmware, software, manufacturing, and customer support.

He brings that full arc of experience to MP Space, where he leads system architecture and firmware for the company’s first product, a high-availability, low-SWaP battery pack and BMS for LEO satellite applications. Working across customers, integration partners, and internal engineering teams, he turns requirements into product architectures backed by simulation and hard-won engineering judgment.

Jimit holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University and a B.E. in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University.

Corey Redmond is the Mechanical Design Lead at MP Space.

A mechanical engineer by training, Corey brings more than 15 years of experience across battery products, mechanical design, engineering analysis, manufacturing, and sustaining engineering.

Before MP Space, Corey spent nearly eight years at Tesla in battery engineering, where he designed high-voltage battery components that launched with Model 3 in 2017. In 2019 and 2020, Corey helped bring Gigafactory Shanghai’s battery lines from first articles through production ramp, while building the local resident design-engineering capability to support them. He later established and led the design team that kicked off early-stage development of next-generation Tesla EV battery systems.

Earlier in his career, Corey worked at Stanley Black & Decker, SAFT, CED Technologies, and UTC Power. Across both Stanley Black & Decker and Tesla, Corey developed and led global resident/sustaining engineering teams to keep high-volume products improving well after launch, delivering outsized gains in quality, reliability, manufacturability, and cost.

Corey holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.

A lifelong space enthusiast who wanted to be an astronaut as a child, Corey still spends his evenings reading about astrophysics and cosmology.

Elias Scanlon is Finance and Operations Lead at MP Space.

He brings seven years of experience from Tesla across Megapack commercial strategy, retail energy, treasury and capital markets in Australia and Europe.

At Tesla, Elias worked on commercial strategy for grid-scale batteries while launching Tesla’s first virtual power plant and retail energy business in Australia. He later relocated to Europe, where he joined Tesla’s global treasury and capital markets team, working across liquidity, foreign exchange, investment operations and market expansion.

Elias relocated back to Australia in 2025 and joined MP Space to help scale the company from advanced engineering into reliable production. At MP Space, he is building the financial, operational and commercial systems needed to support growth across manufacturing, customer programs, supply chain, banking, treasury, contracts and reporting.