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Request a Briefing Access the Audit PortalAlso known as: P. I. Ford. Role: Founder & Executive Board Member. Works for: Kronos Fusion Energy.
Education / alumniOf: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) — economics & applied mathematics; Harvard Business School — executive education; Stanford University — executive education (guest lecturer).
Priyanca Ford's road to fusion didn't begin in a plasma-physics lab. It began on the electrical grid.
Leading smart-grid and advanced-metering analytics for Edison International, she spent her days modeling how energy moves across a vast, aging system — and where it fails. The deeper she went, the clearer one conviction became: the barriers standing between fusion and the real world were no longer only questions of physics. They were increasingly questions of engineering execution, systems integration, and economics — the disciplines she had spent two decades mastering.
That insight became Kronos Fusion Energy.
As founder and executive board member, Priyanca leads the strategic direction of a company building compact, high-field, low-neutron fusion generators with direct energy conversion. Kronos is organized around two product lines — MetroVolt, for commercial urban-grid power, and AEGIS, for defense — and a single operating philosophy: treat fusion as a commercialization problem to be engineered, financed, and de-risked with discipline. The company's design point is grounded in a rigorous, reproducible, simulation-first program aimed at commercialization by 2032.
Priyanca is a three-time founder with two exits. She built and sold Short Girl Films, a film and production venture, early in her career, and later founded 3DBuildBot, a global additive-manufacturing marketplace that connected designers, inventors, and enterprises to distributed 3D-printing capacity across 11 countries before it was acquired in 2017. Around those ventures, she spent a decade as a global management consultant at Deloitte — across financial analysis, business intelligence, and strategic analytics — and was sought out, on reputation, for independent C-suite advisory to the Office of the CEO at companies including Disney and SLB.
She studied economics and applied mathematics at UCLA and completed executive education at Harvard and Stanford, where she has also returned as a guest lecturer. Alongside Kronos, she remains active as an investor, board member, and quantitative trader — a game theorist at heart, drawn to decisions made under deep uncertainty.
Her thesis is simple and demanding: the teams that make fusion real will be the ones that engineer, finance, and commercialize it with the same rigor they bring to the science. That is the company she is building.
"Fusion's last mile isn't a physics miracle — it's an engineering and commercialization problem. That's the one I know how to solve."