Kathy Hannun Contributor Share on Twitter Kathy Hannun is president and co-founder of Dandelion Energy. Prior to Dandelion, Kathy worked at X, Google Alphabet’s innovation lab. In May 2017, Kathy launched Dandelion as an independent startup. She graduated from Stanford with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science. I closed two major rounds of funding for my geothermal energy startup, Dandelion Energy, while pregnant.