Christopher Stewart was appointed Aeluma's full-time Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer effective August 4, 2025, succeeding interim CFO James Seo. Prior to joining the company he was Chief Financial Officer of LeddarTech Holdings Inc., an AI-driven software company that he led through its transition to a publicly traded company, and before that Chief Financial Officer of Bionano Genomics, Inc. He previously held leadership roles at Maxwell Technologies (acquired by Tesla in 2019), Entropic Communications (acquired by MaxLinear in 2015) and Intel Corporation. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University.