Summary
Joe Sleppy is a founder and CEO with 11 years of engineering and entrepreneurial experience, currently leading Capacitech Energy to commercialize a UCF-derived supercapacitor technology that can store and transmit electricity over copper wire. Based in Orlando, he blends hands-on electrical engineering and product design with startup-building skills honed through NSF I-Corps and Venture Scale Up participation. His background spans mechanical design, academic research in nanotechnology-enabled energy systems, and earlier ventures creating adaptive fitness equipment for amputees, showing a pattern of solving practical problems for underserved users. Joe mentors student founders as a former Blackstone LaunchPad business coach, bringing insight into early-stage customer discovery and go-to-market strategy. He combines technical depth from an Electrical Engineering education with a founder’s ability to translate lab innovation into commercial opportunities. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of bridging multidisciplinary teams—engineering, defense, automotive, and IT—to explore cross-sector applications of novel energy storage.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Osceola High School
Electrical Engineering with minor in Technological Entrepreneurship Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering with minor in Technological Entrepreneurship Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Central Florida