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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based CEO’ operating in the Solar space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Chris Hornor
Founder & CEO of Powerhive
Chris is founder and CEO at Powerhive, Inc., a technology venture founded in 2011 that offers access to productive, affordable, and reliable microgrid electricity. Powerhive focuses on financing, monetizing, and managing distributed electricity solutions through its proprietary technology platform and business model. Chris is an entrepreneur and recognized pioneer of consumer renewable energy product and services. During the last 15 years he has delivered renewable energy to more than two million people. As founder and CEO of Better Energy Systems he launched Solio, a portable solar charger that defined a new category of small-scale consumer energy solutions. In 2008 Chris led the expansion of Better Energy Systems into East Africa where he and his team introduced Club Solio, leveraging mobile money to create the first pay-as-you go renewable energy service for remote, off-grid regions. Chris has held senior posts at technology startups in the US, UK, and Japan where he identified and developed new revenue streams through emerging internet applications.
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About Powerhive: Powerhive unlocks productive, clean electricity for millions of households and businesses in emerging markets.
Jonathan Budd
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Powur
Jonathan Budd joined Powur, PBC as Founder, CEO in 2014. Jonathan heads up day-to-day operations and strategy that allow Powur’s entrepreneurs to succeed at their finest. From forming key strategic partnerships, attracting the best talent, and innovating how solar is sold… Jonathan has his hands in everything Powur. Prior to Powur, he built one of the largest online training and education companies in direct marketing with more than 100,000 customers. In 2010, he shifted his entrepreneurial pursuits toward projects focused on game-changing global impact. He founded MyStand in 2011, which developed a first-of-its-kind gaming app to engage users in positive global change. He is also Founder and Executive Director of The Global Transformation Council, Inc., a 501c3 organization that’s donated close to $1,000,000 to local and global initiatives for change.
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About AVOS Systems, Powur: Powur, a technology company, enables direct sellers to participate in the residential shift from dirty to clean energy.
Farzad Dibachi
CEO and Co-founder of Inxeption
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About Inxeption: Inxeption is a cloud-based digital commerce platform that helps B2B companies accelerate growth and manage logistics.
Christopher Hopper
Co-Founder and CEO of Aurora Solar
Christopher Hopper is the Co-Founder and CEO at Aurora Solar.
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About Aurora Solar: Aurora Solar is a SaaS company that uses aerial imagery to assess solar installation projects.
Lyndon Rive
Co-Founder & CEO of SolarCity
Lyndon Rive is the co-founder and CEO of SolarCity. He co-founded SolarCity in July 2006 with the goal of significantly reducing the cost of solar power and building a trusted national brand adopted by millions of homes. In its first full year of operation, SolarCity became the largest residential solar power provider in California, and by early 2008, SolarCity was a full-service solar power company—providing design, financing, installation, monitoring and services. Lyndon has grown SolarCity has grown to over 300 employees , serving more than 300 communities in three states in its first two years of existence. Prior to SolarCity, Lyndon founded Everdream, an industry leader in software and services for large-scale distributed computer management. Lyndon negotiated the company’s partnership with Dell Computer, which acquired Everdream in 2007. A lifelong entrepreneur, Lyndon founded his first company at the age of 17 in South Africa, and in his spare time has been a member of the U.S. National Underwater Hockey Team.
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About SolarCity: SolarCity provides solar energy services to homeowners, businesses, government, and non-profit organizations.
Cem Koc
Founder & CEO of Ronotic
Entrepeneur since 2000. Cem has developed business strategies for the efficient and effective use of technology and always has an eye on emerging technologies and trends. Cem tends to be an outgoing thinker and naturally has an easy time persuading others. Confident and decisive, Cem is likely to take bold action and articulate ideas to build momentum around the projects that his pursues.
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About Ronotic: Solar Powered Streetlights, CleanTech Infrastructure
Christian Fong
Chairman, President and CEO of Spruce Finance
Christian Fong, CFA has been the CEO and President of Fong Management LLC since 2008. In addition to Fong Management LLC, Christian Fong serves as Independent Director at Terraform Power (NASDAQ: TERP) and at privately held Spruce Finance, Inc. Previously, he co-founded Renewable Energy Trust Capital, Inc (RET) in 2010, where he served in multiple executive roles, including COO, CIO, CFO and Director. Prior to founding RET, Christian Fong served as a Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Capital Markets at AEGON / Transamerica, as CEO of Corridor Recovery, Inc., as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and as a candidate for Governor of Iowa. (Connect with him on LinkedIn for more details.) Christian Fong holds an M.B.A. with High Distinction from Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, and a B.S. in Statistics, summa cum laude, from Creighton University. He has earned the CFA and CCIM designations. Christian Fong and his wife Jenelle have three children: Luther, Ty Anders and Elsa. He was an award-winning varsity cross-country runner at Creighton and remains an avid endurance and snow-sports athlete.
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About Spruce Finance: Spruce provides consumer financing for residential solar systems, water conservation upgrades and energy-efficient home improvements.
Henry D. Fahman
Chairman and CEO of PHI Group
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About PHI Group: PHI Group, Inc. is a U.S. publicly traded company (trading symbol: PHIL) primarily focusing on energy and natural resources.
Patrick Maloney
Founder | Chief Executive Officer of Inspire
Clean Energy Entrepreneur and Investor
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About Inspire: Consumer technology platform that powers cleaner, more efficient, and more sustainable homes.
Tom Buttgenbach
Founder and CEO of 8minute Solar Energy
Tom Buttgenbach is co-founder and president of 8minutenergy. He has over 15 years of experience in large-scale project development, entitlement, due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, and capital structuring and origination. Tom has successfully managed over $1 billion in transactions in the solar energy and electric utility industry. Tom has also worked in the clean-tech, high-tech, large-scale real estate project, land development, asset management, private equity and financial services sectors. He is responsible for the land entitlement process for over 2,000 megawatts of 8minutenergy’s solar projects, and for becoming the first solar PV project in California’s Imperial County to complete the land entitlement process.
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About 8minute Solar Energy: 8minute Solar Energy is the nation’s largest independent developer of solar PV and energy storage projects.
Lesley Marincola
CEO of Angaza
Lesley Marincola is the Founder and CEO of Angaza Design. A product designer (B.S.) and mechanical engineer (M.S.) from Stanford University, Lesley has also worked at Amazon (Lab126) with the Amazon Kindle design team, and at Bay Area design consultancy, D2M Inc. with clients including DirecTV, Genentech, Qualcomm, and Volkswagen. Lesley is a recipient of the Santa Clara University Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) scholarship and was named a 2012 Tech Awards Laureate, in recognition of Angaza’s pay-as-you-go technology. She was recognized by Businessweek as one of “America’s Best Young Entrepreneurs”, is a World Economic Forum Young Global Shaper, was named a Forbes “30 Under 30” Entrepreneur, and is a 2013 Echoing Green Fellow. Lesley’s vision is to solve the world’s most widespread problems – like energy access – with market-driven technology innovation developed from a human-centered design approach.
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About Angaza: Angaza provides a technology that enables businesses to provide affordable life-changing products to people in emerging markets.
Billy Parish
Co-Founder & CEO of Mosaic
Billy co-founded and grew the Energy Action Coalition into the largest youth organization in the world focused on clean energy and climate solutions. Billy developed a proposal to create a Clean Energy Corps to produce 5 million green jobs, which shaped the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the largest green investment in U.S. history. He has been honored as a Rolling Stone magazine “Climate Hero,” an Utne Reader “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” and was elected as a Fellow by Ashoka, the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. Billy is co-author of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a Changing World (Rodale/Penguin 2012).
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About Mosaic, Solar Mosaic: Mosaic is a residential solar lending platform that enables thousands of people to profit from the benefits of clean energy.
Billy Parish
Co-Founder & CEO of Mosaic
Billy co-founded and grew the Energy Action Coalition into the largest youth organization in the world focused on clean energy and climate solutions. Billy developed a proposal to create a Clean Energy Corps to produce 5 million green jobs, which shaped the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the largest green investment in U.S. history. He has been honored as a Rolling Stone magazine “Climate Hero,” an Utne Reader “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” and was elected as a Fellow by Ashoka, the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. Billy is co-author of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a Changing World (Rodale/Penguin 2012).
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About Mosaic, Solar Mosaic: Mosaic is a residential solar lending platform that enables thousands of people to profit from the benefits of clean energy.
Kevin Coakley
Co-founder and CEO of Cellink
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About Cellink: CelLink is an early-stage hardware startup that is developing a flexible conductive backplane for power electronics.
Ty Jagerson
Founder & CEO of Village Power Finance
Ty has 20 years of experience in the energy industry, including over 10 years in solar. Ty was most recently President of HelioPower, a top 10 solar installer in CA. He was also the co-founder of SolFocus, a pioneering concentrated photovoltaics company. Ty was at Xerox PARC for five years, and is on the UC Merced Board of Trustees. He is also on the boards of Azzuro Inc. and Speck Design. Ty received his MBA from Wharton and M.A. from Wesleyan, holds four patents, and is a member of YPO
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About Village Power Finance: The Village Power funding platform provides community-driven institutions a better way to go solar.
Raphael Rosen
CEO of Carbon Lighthouse
Raphael Rosen is CEO & Co-founder of Carbon Lighthouse, where he is responsible for corporate finance and capital raising, long-term planning, and the company’s operations strategy. Raphael has led Carbon Lighthouse’s scale and growth over the past decade to deliver true environmental and operational impact and more than $250 million in savings for clients including Goldman Sachs, Hawaiian Airlines, L&B, The Carlyle Group, The Moinian Group, Madison International Realty, and AEW. Previously, Raphael served as VP of Corporate Development at Safari Energy where he grew Safari’s operational capacity to more than 25 solar projects worth $24 million.
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About Carbon Lighthouse: Delivering easy building decarbonization for commercial real estate owners
Ashok K. Sinha
Founder, Chairman of the Board & CEO of Sunpreme
Dr. Sinha is the Chairman and CEO of Sunpreme.For fifteen years, Dr. Sinha served in various roles at Applied Materials, culminating in his roles as Sr.VP & GM for $6B Silicon Business of Applied.Prior to Applied, Dr. Sinha worked for 20 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he served as Head of the VLSI Process Technology and Fabrication departments at Murray Hill and Allentown.He also served as Vice President of Manufacturing Technology Development in SEMATECH, a non-profit research and development consortium.Dr. Sinha has served on the Board of Asyst Corp, the Tech Museum of San Jose, and as an independent board member of Dune Networks, an Israeli networking Company recently sold to Broadcom.He is also a member of the Advisory Board at Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment, Co, in Shanghai. Dr. Sinha received the Thomas C. Callinan award from the Electrochemical Society for outstanding contribution to dielectric and insulation science, and the Clinton J. Davisson trophy for a “patented invention, which was of significant importance to AT&T’s commercial success.” He holds over 80 issued US patents.He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for contributions to interconnect technology for semiconductor devices. And he received the Distinguished Alumni Award medal from the Indian Institute of Science. Dr. Sinha earned his Bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, and holds a Doctorate in Materials Science from the University of Oxford, England. Subsequently he worked as a Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology.
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About Sunpreme: Sunpreme is a solar company that designs and manufactures photovoltaic cells and panels.
Rob Lamkin
CEO of Cool Earth Solar
His journey to Cool Earth began at the Northern California Power Agency, where he held a variety of positions including assistant general manager responsible for all of its power plants. Rob then served as a corporate officer at two Fortune 500 energy companies—Calpine Corporation and Mirant Corporation. At Calpine, he had leadership responsibility for power plant development, project construction, asset management, trading and marketing, and project finance. Over 10,000 MW of new power plant capacity were developed under his direction, and over 6,000 MW were constructed and brought into commercial operations during his leadership. As Vice President at Mirant, Rob was responsible for the asset management of 3,100 MW of gas-fired power plants following the acquisition from Pacific Gas & Electric. He received a BS in electrical engineering from California State University. Rob is also active on the Advisory Boards of three clean technology companies.
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About Cool Earth Solar: Cool Earth Solar employs its proprietary concentrated photovoltaic technology to develop and operate power plants.
Michael Lee
CEO and Co-Founder of Evolve Energy
Michael Lee is the CEO and co-founder of Evolve Energy.
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About Evolve Energy, Octopus Energy: Evolve Energy is an energy company that helps consumers save their energy costs through AI and IOT.
Bill Hilliard
Founder and CEO of EcoVolt Electric Company
Bill has been an operating manager and/or private investor in clean technology, real estate, specialty finance, and technology for over 30 years. He is an inventor or co-inventor named on 14 issued US patents. Bill has had 3 successful exits as either a CEO or senior team member. Bill earned a Master’s degree in management from MIT’s Sloan School of Management; and a Bachelor’s degree in mathematical economics from Pomona College. Concurrent with his business career, he was appointed as a Visiting Scholar at Wharton and at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
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About EcoVolt Electric Company, Generate Capital: EcoVolt rents roofs from building landlords (like cell tower leasing), installs solar & provides electricity service to the building tenants
Soumitra Mishra
Co-founder and CEO of Claro Energy
Soumitra Mishra and Kartik Wahi founded Claro Energy in 2011, since which Soumitra has been serving as one of its directors.
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About Claro Energy: Claro Energy operates in high-power deficit, diesel dependent, agrarian, and poor economic regions of India.
Michael Cung
CEO & Founder of King Solarman
Michael Cung was a 6-year real estate banker in Deutsche Bank and a top originator and a member of President Club for a few years in real estate lending. He worked with real estate developers, real estate investors, mortgage brokers and mortgage bankers throughout New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. He also worked as an investment accountant in JP Morgan Asset Managment and Citibank headquarters. He graduated from Baruch College in New York City with a BBA in Accounting.
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About King Solarman: King Solarman provides residential and commercial solar panels, solar inverters and solar finance.
Moty Ginsburg
CEO of Treeium Inc.
Moty Ginsburg has built his entire executive career on the definition—”entrepreneur”. A high energy, fiscally conscious and goal-driven executive, Moty approaches each new business challenge with his natural flair for innovation, creative, problem-solving and measured risk-taking to drive consistent bottom-line improvements. He is presently overseeing an entire team of 150 people with offices throughout California. Born in Argentina, and having earned his Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Moty’s goal was to complement his natural technical savvy with a strong foundation in business. The best way to do this, he felt, was to immigrate to the United States and in 1990 he accepted his first position with JMR Electronics where he gained extensive experience and earned promotions until he became the president of the company, managing 400 people and with worldwide offices. Intrigued by the “world” of construction and remodeling and being recognized as a high-potential executive, Moty’s career took a leap forward in 2004 when he has decided to open his own management firm. Moty built a new management company from the ground up, and provided fundamental leadership in building op corporate systems. In 2010, Moty’s career took another leap forward when he founded Tree Home Media, a social media and marketing firm focusing on the Green Movement and everyday implementation of eco-friendliness. Moty is deeply involved in driving both innovation and growth strategies of the company. Today, Moty resides with his wife in Woodland Hills, CA and his three grown children. He is actively seeking his next executive challenge.
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About Treeium Inc.: Eco-friendly home remodeling company that uses eco-conscious, sustainable building practices to remodel your home and protect the planet.
Conlan O’Leary
Chief Executive Officer of Sighten
Conlan oversees all commercial aspects of the business and dabbles in front-end programming when he has time. Before Sighten, Conlan ran the financing product and pricing desk at Clean Power Finance with Graham.
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About Sighten: Sighten develops a software toolset to manage the complexity of distributed solar.
Desmond Wheatley
President & CEO of Beam Global
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About Beam Global, Beam Global: Beam Global is a clean tech leader that produces sustainable electric vehicle (EV) charging, outdoor media, and energy security solutions.
Aaron Woro
Founder and CEO of Solar Census
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About Solar Census, Solar Census: Solar Census is a software company that develops automated shade analysis software.
Steven Eisenberg
CEO of SRECTrade
I currently serve as the Chief Executive Officer of SRECTrade. I am responsible for overseeing the company’s day to day management and operations. During my tenure, I have helped establish and grow the firm’s over-the-counter brokerage and SREC management services. Since joining SRECTrade in 2010, I have focused on bringing transparency and efficiency to the SREC markets. I have helped electricity suppliers, corporate institutions, and project owners execute transactions and navigate the complexities of dealing in the PJM and MA solar carve-out programs. SRECTrade manages over 215 MW of solar across more than 17,000 assets. Additionally, through our SRECTrade-X product, the firm is developing software solutions to assist with renewable energy credit portfolio management and transaction execution. Add Media:DocumentPhotoLinkVide
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About SRECTrade: Solar energy production tracking and trading software platform
Mary Powell
CEO of Sunrun
Mary Powell is former chief executive of Vermont utility Green Mountain Power. She is currently the CEO of Sunrun.
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About Sunrun: Sunrun provides residential solar electricity and solar power services for homeowners.
Seth Baruch
CEO of Carbonomics
Seth Baruch is National Director for Energy and Utilities at Kaiser Permanente and is responsible for managing sustainable energy programs across the organization, including solar projects at a hundred different hospitals, data centers and medical office buildings. Part of this program includes the development of microgrids and rapid installation of electric vehicle charging stations at selected sites in California. Baruch is also helping lead the effort for Kaiser Permanente to achieve carbon neutrality by 2020. He has spent his career developing clean energy projects and programs. He led a multi-million dollar initiative at the Washington, DC-based Alliance to Save Energy to improve energy efficiency in the Former Soviet Union. He later founded his own company, QualityTons, that designed projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. QT helped clients around the world lower emissions and generate carbon offset credits, which were sold in the international carbon markets. QT was eventually acquired by Climate Change Capital, a large UK-based investment fund that financed clean energy projects. At CCC, Baruch managed project origination and executed the company’s first project in the United States.
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About Carbonomics: Carbonomics develops energy efficiency, renewable energy and microgrid projects.
Martin Milani
CEO & CTO of Sunverge Energy
Mr. Milani is Nexant’s CTO responsible for directing the development of the company’s advanced energy software applications and tools. He is an industry-recognized thought-leader and expert on SOA with more than 20 years of experience in distributed systems architecture, product design, and development spanning the evolution of distributed systems. He joined Nexant from Tidal Software (acquired by Cisco Systems), a leading provider of business process automation solutions for the enterprise, where he was CTO. Mr. Milani joined Tidal Software in 2006 through the acquisition of Intersperse Inc. (funded by Kleiner Perkins), a leading provider of monitoring and management solutions for the service-oriented enterprise, where he was president, CEO, and CTO. Prior to Intersperse he was CTO of iBuilding, a web services process-flow management and orchestration company where he led the design, application development, product management, support, and consulting teams. Under his leadership, iBuilding was named by CIO magazine as providing one of the 100 most innovative products of 2001. Previously, Mr. Milani was at the Times Mirror Corporation where he held the positions of chief internet technologist and strategist as well as chief enterprise architect for Times Mirror and the Los Angeles Times. Before joining Times Mirror, he held senior-level technology, consulting, and distributed system architect positions at Wells Fargo, IBM, Retix, and Locus computing. His areas of expertise include: massive parallel systems, asynchronous messaging systems, distributed operating systems and kernels, directory services, enterprise application integration, and systems and network management. Mr. Milani received a B.S. in computer science with a minor in mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh.
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About Nexant, Sunverge Energy, Tidal Software: Sunverge Energy provides integrated solar solutions for distributed generation and storage.
Richard Matsui
CEO & Founder of kWh Analytics
Richard Matsui is the CEO of kWh Analytics. Mr. Matsui co-founded the firm in early 2012 and is responsible for overall strategic firm direction, firm operations and industry partnerships. Prior to kWh, Mr. Matsui was Chairman of the Advisory Council at Compass Partners. Previously, his company Honua Solutions, provided management consulting services to multiple leading global solar industry firms across Asia, Europe & the U.S. Prior to forming Honua Solutions, Mr. Matsui was a Consultant at McKinsey & Company in their Greater China office. For three years he established himself as the firm’s leading expert on the global PV solar industry, accumulating more experience than any pre-partner consultant. Mr. Matsui graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and is a Forbes’ “30 Under 30″ Award recipient. He is from Honolulu, Hawaii.
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About kWh Analytics: kWh Analytics provides solar asset data and portfolio analytics for the solar industry.
Susan Casey Stone
CEO of Ubiquitous Energy
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About Riverhorse Investments, Sierra Wasatch Capital, Ubiquitous Energy: Ubiquitous Energy makes transparent solar technology for windows, electronics, and other applications.
Max Aram
Founder and CEO of Electrum
After earning a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering in 2008, Max immigrated to the United States to pursue his master’s degree and the “American Dream.” As a student at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), Max spearheaded one of CSUN’s largest student-run projects based off an app concept he developed to advise students on where to find parking among the crowded student lots. After writing his master’s thesis investigating CSUN’s green initiatives, Max determined that solar power was the school’s most reliable green energy source. This solidified his advocacy for the industry and its environmental benefits. While investigating the residential solar marketplace, Max found that installers’ aggressive sales strategies had made shoppers skeptical and defensive. He determined that the industry needed to operate with more transparency in order to grow and set out to develop the platform that would become Pick My Solar.
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About Electrum, Solar.com: Electrum is an online marketplace for homeowners to find competitive offers on home solar, battery, and electrification products.
Jonah Greenberger
Co-Founder and CEO of BRIGHT
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About BRIGHT: BRIGHT enables the developing world with cleaner and more affordable energy.
Deep Patel
Founder & CEO of Gigawatt Inc
Experienced solar professional with background in sales. “My vision is to change the current centralized energy model into a fully distributed energy infrastructure in which energy is generated, stored and consumed within our communities rather than being imported from far away lands.”
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About Gigawatt Inc: Gigawatt Inc. is a green energy corporation focused on the development, distribution, and installation of solar energy products.
David Murray
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Greenspire
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About Greenspire: Greenspire facilitates national home savings programs. Our mission is to lower your cost of living by providing a sustainable lifestyle.
Bala Padmakumar
CEO of Amperics
Bala Padmakumar has been the CEO of Amperics Inc since 2011, a high performance energy storage play that originated at UCLA. In that time Amperics has transitioned from proof-of-concept to full characterized products that are scaling into volume production and revenue. Apart from being in founding and senior management roles over the course of his career he was also a venture partner at XSeed capital. He has a degree in Chemical Engineering from Stanford. Bala’s enjoys working with a technical teams to develop from concept, a customer ready product and raise capital from a variety of sources to scale organizations to success.
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About Amperics: Amperics has developed an ultra capacitor with the same energy density as lead acid batteries.
Gary Wiseman
Founder & CEO of Brisbane Materials Technology
Gary Wiseman is Founder & CEO at Brisbane Materials Technology.
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About Brisbane Materials Technology: Brisbane Materials aims to be the leading supplier of anti-reflective and anti-soiling coatings for solar and other applications.
Clifford Morris
CEO of C3Nano
Clifford Morris, also known as Cliff, serves as Chief Executive officer of C3Nano Inc. Clifford Morris served as Vice President for Global Business Development at NanoGram Corporation.
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About C3Nano: C3Nano develops transparent conductive ink and films intended to enhance touchscreen and digital display experience.
Abraham Valentino
Founder & CEO of SOLARIT®
Abraham Valentino is the Founder and CEO of Solarit.
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About SOLARIT®: SOLARIT® provides smart solar energy installations to residentials and commercials clients.SOLARIT® is also a solar industry tech provider.
Yevgen Erik
CEO & Founder of SolarGaps
Yevgen Erik is CEO at SolarGaps.
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About SolarGaps: SolarGaps is a smart blinds that generate electricity.
Greg Tinfow
Founder & CEO of Energy Informatics
Greg Tinfow started Energy Informatics to address a specific problem: the mismatch between a rapidly-evolving energy services industry and the software tools necessary to make service providers successful and profitable. That goal has grown out of a lengthy involvement in science, energy policy, engineering, and software development spanning more than thirty years at venues as diverse as the US EPA to some of the leading energy service providers in North America. Before personal computers existed in government, he was developing desktop applications for financial analysis of energy technologies at the Energy Economics Branch of the EPA’s Office of Policy Analysis in Washington, D.C.—using a “repurposed” Lexitron word processor. His analysis and reprogramming of DOE’s COAL1 computer model was used by EPA to estimate the economic cost of “buying” various delays in the rise of atmospheric CO2 (published as “Can We Delay a Greenhouse Warming” in 1983: EPA-230-10-84-001). As a consultant to energy industry R&D organizations in the mid-‘90s, he led development of some of the first web applications for on-line self-service by electricity customers. He has built software development efforts from the ground up as CTO or in the lead technical position at pioneering energy service providers including New Energy Ventures (now part of Constellation Energy), MACH Energy, EnFlex, and SunEdison; and has been a consultant to a variety of energy and technology companies. His academic background includes an A.B. in Chemistry and Policy Studies from Dartmouth College and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
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About Energy Informatics: Energy Informatics LLC is a software-as-a-service start-up committed to building the enabling software necessary for effective portfolio-
Colin Roche
Co-Founder/CEO of Swiftmile
Colin Roche serves as Vice President of Sales & Business Development at CloudCrowd Holdings, Inc. Prior to CloudCrowd, Colin Roche was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Writing Instruments where he led its growth from a single retail store to over 25,000 retailers in 40 countries. He has been featured by CNBC, ABC, Fox News, Newsweek, Wired and profiled in one of the longest series the Wall Street Journal has ever published on a single business titled the “Long Road to Wal-Mart.” He has been a frequent speaker with the Wall Street Journal’s “Insight Exchange” program and is a Smithsonian National Design Award Nominee.
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About Swiftmile: Swiftmile is a developer of light electric vehicle (LEV) charging systems.
Sinuhe Montoya
CEO of DroneQuote
Sinuhe got his start in the “real world” by enlisting in the United States Army in 2002 as a result of September 11th. He completed two combat tours to Iraq wherein he learned the value of life and freedom by experiencing lessons that can only be taught during a war. Once he got out of the Army, he was armed with an ironclad resilience and steadfast drive to be a successful businessman. Being a steward of the environment, he knew that renewable energy was his calling so he muscled his way into sales at the renown Baker Electric in San Diego where he made himself a name for being a top producer. It was at Baker that Sinuhe took from his past experiences and introduced drone technology to make the process safer of designing for solar safer, more efficient, and better for the customer. Having the strong drive to always be of service and to help others coupled with an itch to be an entrepreneur he saw the opportunity to take the concept of drone technology and apply it solar and roofing. Not being risk-averse, Sinuhe bet on himself, and with the help of his business partner, he launched DroneQuote in 2017. Today, Sinuhe continues to build DroneQuote and strives to give consumers a level of convenience, cost-effectiveness, and transparency that has never been seen in solar and roofing. While you can take the man out of the Army, you can never take the Army out of the man – with this spirit, Sinuhe and company will not stop until the mission to simplify solar and roofing for everyone is accomplished.
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About DroneQuote: DroneQuote is the only marketplace for solar and roofing utilizing drones for accurate and competitive quotes. Proudly Veteran-owned.
Jurgen Krehnke
Chief Executive Officer of Sunfolding
Jurgen Krehnke joined Sunfolding in August of 2017 as new CEO to lead the company into mass production and rapid business growth.
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About Sunfolding: Sunfolding develops new approaches to solar tracking for commercial and utility systems.
Angelo Campus
Founder and CEO of BoxPower
Angelo Campus is the founder and CEO at BoxPower, a company that designs and manufactures solar energy systems in a 20-foot shipping container.
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About BoxPower: BoxPower, designs and manufactures solar energy systems in a 20-foot shipping container.
Yezin Taha
Founder & CEO of Nevados
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About Nevados: Nevados Engineering designs and manufactures solar ground installations.
Mike Mrozek
Chief Executive Officer of Colored Solar
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About Colored Solar: Colored Solar manufactures, distributes and integrates solar electric systems.
Deep Chakraborty
CEO of Enact Systems
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About Enact Systems: ENACT SYSTEMS provides a single business platform for solar project management, design, financing, installation, and asset management.
Kevin Hell
President and Chief Executive Officer of mPower Technology
Kevin Hell currently serves as President and CEO of On-Ramp Wireless, a provider of wireless networks that power wide-area, machine-to-machine communication. Previously, he was chief executive officer of DivX, Inc., providers of technology which enables consumers to enjoy a high-quality video experience across any kind of device. Before joining DivX, he served as Senior Vice President of Product Management for Palm’s Solutions Group, where he was responsible for Palm branded products and services worldwide. Before Palm, Kevin was Vice President of the Connected Home division and Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Gateway where he defined and led Gateway’s “Beyond-the-Box” initiatives. Mr. Hell currently serves on the board of directors of MicroPower Technologies, Inc. Kevin began his journey at Stanford University where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s degree in Aeronautics. After Stanford, Kevin designed communications satellites and interplanetary spacecraft for Hughes Aircraft Company. Kevin then went on to earn an MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and worked for seven years at Boston Consulting Group, focusing on clients in the high-technology, telecommunications and entertainment markets.
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About mPower Technology: mPower Technology is an innovative solar cell technology startup.
Steven Brimmer
CEO of Suncore
Mr. Brimmer has been a global adventurer, explorer, businessman and innovator for over 35 years. He has a diverse professional and personal background including holding numerous executive level positions in both the entertainment and technology sectors, as well as having been fortunate to drive race cars professionally and lead seven alpine mountain expeditions around the globe.
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About Suncore: SunCore produces a solar-powered, intelligent battery system for charging mobile communication devices.
Daniel Doimo
Chief Executive Officer of Solarlytics
Daniel Doimo is the Chief Executive Officer at Solarlytics.
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About Solarlytics: Solarlytics is a renewable and environmental company that specializes in the fields of electrical engineering, cloud, and IoT.
Brian Kuykendall
CEO of Kuykendall Solar
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About Kuykendall Solar: Kuykendall Solar is a subcontractor partner for residential and commercial solar installation in California.
Kai Stephan
Founder & CEO of Pegasus Solar
Kai Stephan is CEO at Pegasus Solar.
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About Pegasus Solar: Pegasus Solar designs innovative rooftop mounting systems for global solar markets.
Connor English
CEO of PVBid, Inc.
In the past decade, Connor has worked on PV systems from the ground up – designing, building, engineering, and costing. He has become a recognized expert in solar estimating.
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About PVBid, Inc.: PVBid helps solar companies improve bottom lines by providing real-time insight into operations and costs, streamlining workflow.
Alfred Tom
CEO of Wivity Inc.
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About Wivity Inc.: Distributed database that holds security-critial information on cyrptographic private keys. Standardized by the SunSpec Alliance.
Conrad Chase
CEO of Point Load Power
Conrad Chase is the Chief Executive Officer at Point Load Power.
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About Point Load Power: Point Load Power is an energy management instructor that provides solutions about energy uses and access to commercial and building owners.
Darren Jamison
President & CEO of Capstone Turbine Corp
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About Capstone Turbine Corp: Capstone Turbine Corporation® is the world’s leading producer of low-emission microturbine systems.
Thomas Quinn
Chairman & CEO of EFUEL
Thomas Quinn is the founder and CEO of EFUEL.
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About EFUEL: EFUEL offers ethanol production system (MicroFueler), and generators (Personal Energy System) that run 24/7 year round off 100% ethanol.
Andrew McGuire
President and CEO of McWire Electric
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About McWire Electric: McWire Electric is a second-generation, family owned and operated solar company.
Elie Rothschild
Chief Executive Officer of Sollega
Elie Rothschild has devoted his professional career to the development of clean energy. For the past 13 years, Mr. Rothschild has been involved in the renewable energy and sustainable building industries. He is a licensed solar contractor (C46) in the state of California. Mr. Rothschild is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin business school, and is a dedicated father and husband.
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About Sollega: Sollega manufactures and offers solar PV, ballasted commercial flat-roof, and ground mount racking solutions.
Parker Wells
Founder and CEO of Element 16 Technologies
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About Element 16 Technologies, Overhead.fm: Improving industrial energy efficiency with thermal battery systems
Marianna Grossman
CEO Minerva of TowerPower
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About : Distributed renewable energy for cell phone towers
