Mojo Vision CEO and leadership

Mike is focused on identifying and developing new technologies and businesses. He has a broad set of interests spanning Applied Physics to Software to Data. He is also a student of Business Models, People, Culture, and Leadership.



In 2007 he Co-Founded Solar Junction where he helped build the company, its technology, and its customers. With the other Co-Founders, Mike led the technical teams to two world records in Solar Cell efficiency (43.5% and 44%) and then sold the company in 2014. Before success with Solar Junction, he tried to start two other companies - a datacom company and an image sensor company.

Mike is now building a new company with some amazing people. He also advises a variety of early stage companies on their product/business/financing strategies.

Mike has a BS, MS, and PhD from Stanford University, all in Electrical Engineering. He has patents and papers in Semiconductor Devices & Applications, Silicon Photonics, Materials Integration, Lasers, Solar Cells, Solar Systems, and Analog Circuits. He has given talks on technology and entrepreneurship at Universities and Events in the US, Middle East, and Asia, and speaks regularly at Stanford University.

Michael Deering is a Chief Scientist at Mojo Vision Inc and is based in Saratoga, California. He works or has worked as Technical paper reviewer at ACM SIGGRAPH and Presenter at several SIGGRAPH courses at ACM SIGGRAPH. Michael studied at University of California Berkeley between 1978 and 1981 and University of California Berkeley between 1974 and 1978.

Corporate attorney and senior management and finance executive with twenty years of in-house experience at Avanex Corporation, PAX Water Technologies, GeoFarm, Cobalt Biofuels, Bloom Energy Corporation, Solar Junction Corporation and Virdia. Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel, attorney and more.

Five years of big law firm experience with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Specialties: Clean tech, clean technology, geothermal energy, corporate development, hardware and software development and licensing agreements, mobile app development, equity financings, SOX compliance, SEC reporting, mergers & acquisitions, IPO's, venture capital, corporate governance, executive compensation, project finance and all the rest.

Mike is focused on identifying and developing new technologies and businesses. He has a broad set of interests spanning Applied Physics to Software to Data. He is also a student of Business Models, People, Culture, and Leadership.



In 2007 he Co-Founded Solar Junction where he helped build the company, its technology, and its customers. With the other Co-Founders, Mike led the technical teams to two world records in Solar Cell efficiency (43.5% and 44%) and then sold the company in 2014. Before success with Solar Junction, he tried to start two other companies - a datacom company and an image sensor company.

Mike is now building a new company with some amazing people. He also advises a variety of early stage companies on their product/business/financing strategies.

Mike has a BS, MS, and PhD from Stanford University, all in Electrical Engineering. He has patents and papers in Semiconductor Devices & Applications, Silicon Photonics, Materials Integration, Lasers, Solar Cells, Solar Systems, and Analog Circuits. He has given talks on technology and entrepreneurship at Universities and Events in the US, Middle East, and Asia, and speaks regularly at Stanford University.

Michael Deering is a Chief Scientist at Mojo Vision Inc and is based in Saratoga, California. He works or has worked as Technical paper reviewer at ACM SIGGRAPH and Presenter at several SIGGRAPH courses at ACM SIGGRAPH. Michael studied at University of California Berkeley between 1978 and 1981 and University of California Berkeley between 1974 and 1978.