Solarmer Energy competitors

Thad Hill became Calpine’s President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of its Board of Directors in May 2014. Mr. Hill joined the company in September 2008 as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer. He became Chief Operating Officer in November 2010 and was named President in December 2012. Prior to Calpine, Mr. Hill was with NRG Energy from 2006 to 2008, serving as President of NRG Texas in 2007- 2008. Prior to NRG, Mr. Hill was Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Texas Genco LP from 2005 to 2006. From 1995 to 2005, he was with Boston Consulting Group Inc., where he rose to Partner and Managing Director and led the North American energy practice, serving companies in the power and gas sector with a focus on commercial and strategic issues. Mr. Hill received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Vanderbilt University magna cum laude and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Amos Tuck School of Dartmouth College, where he was elected an Edward Tuck Scholar.

Pedro Pizarro is a President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director at EDISON INTERNATIONAL; Chair at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI); and Board Member at SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON CO and is based in Pasadena, California. He has worked as Director:Strategic Planning at EDISON INTERNATIONAL, Board Member at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and President and Director at SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON CO. Pedro works or has worked as TRUSTEE at California Institute of Technology- Caltech and BOARD MEMBER at Argonne National Laboratory. He studied at Harvard University between 1983 and 1987, California Institute of Technology- Caltech between 1988 and 1994, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) between 1987 and 1988.

Badrinarayanan Kothandaraman is a Board Member at Enphase Energy, Dir:Business Unit at Cypress Semiconductor, and President/CEO at Enphase Energy and is based in Santa Clara, California. He has worked as Executive Director at Cypress Semiconductor, Chief Operating Officer at Enphase Energy, and Vice President at National Junior Basketball. Badrinarayanan studied at Indian Institute of Technology/Madras between 1989 and 1993, University of California Berkeley between 1993 and 1995, and Stanford University Graduate School of Business between 2008 and 2008.

Mr. Widmar became CEO of First Solar in July 2016. He joined First Solar in April 2011 as chief financial officer and served as First Solar’s chief accounting officer from February 2012 through June 2015. Mr. Widmar has also served as a director on the board of the general partner of 8point3 Energy Partners LP (“8point3 Energy Partners”), then a publicly-traded yieldco and affiliate of First Solar. Prior to joining First Solar, Mr. Widmar served as chief financial officer of GrafTech International Ltd., a leading global manufacturer of advanced carbon and graphite materials, from May 2006 through March 2011, as well as president, Engineered Solutions from January 2011 through March 2011. Prior to joining GrafTech, Mr. Widmar served as corporate controller of NCR Inc. from 2005 to 2006, and was a business unit chief financial officer for NCR from November 2002 to his appointment as controller. He also served as a division controller at Dell, Inc. from August 2000 to November 2002 prior to joining NCR. Mr. Widmar also held various financial and managerial positions with Lucent Technologies Inc., Allied Signal, Inc., and Bristol Myers/Squibb, Inc. He began his career in 1987 as an accountant with Ernst & Young. Mr. Widmar holds a Bachelor of Science in business accounting and a Masters of Business Administration from Indiana University.

Jeffrey W. Martin is the chairman and chief executive officer of Sempra Energy, an energy infrastructure company based in San Diego, California. Sempra Energy develops and owns natural gas and electric transmission and distribution infrastructure with a focus on markets in North America, including California, Texas, Mexico and the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export market. The company serves more than 35 million consumers – serving more U.S. customers than any other U.S. utility holding company.  

David Bywater is the Chief Executive Officer at Vivint Solar, a leading full-service residential solar integrator. For the past 20 years, David has consulted with and run some of the most innovative and dynamic companies in the world and brings a strong track record of rapidly expanding small, medium, and large enterprises.Prior to joining Vivint Solar, David served as Chief Operating Officer at Vivint Smart Home where he was responsible for customer operations, human resources, field service, and supply chain. He has been instrumental in managing the rapid growth at Vivint Smart Home while also improving operations and profitability.Before joining Vivint, Bywater spent 10 years working at Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), one of the largest BPO and ITO companies in the world. During his tenure with ACS, he was responsible for the management of several business units, which encapsulated more than 60 different companies. Most recently, Bywater served as an Executive Vice President and Corporate Officer for Xerox and was the Chief Operating Officer of its $1.8 billion State Government Services Business. This division experienced significant growth and transformation under his leadership.Prior to Xerox, David worked as senior manager at Bain & Company where he worked on helping global clients achieve their full economic and operational potential, primarily in the technology, transportation, and data information industries.David currently serves on the board of Youthlinc, a Utah non-profit organization that is dedicated to creating lifetime humanitarians by offering local and international service experiences. David holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

I believe we need to and can transition to clean energy faster and better. My passion and expertise is commercializing the technologies and developing the projects that will do that. I began my career as an attorney with Bennett Jones, learning how to develop, structure and finance large, complex energy projects and went on to help bring to reality over $12 billion in power projects around the world.My legal work took me to California in 2000, during the California Energy Crisis and the peak of the dot-com bubble and there I fell in love with the potential of new technology to change the world and the challenge of making that happen. I left behind the practice of law and became an entrepreneur.I had the opportunity, which I seized, to lead an early stage energy storage company, in the very early days of the energy storage industry. We had to not only sell utilities on our Ice Bear thermal energy storage system, we had to sell utilities and policy makers on the need for energy storage. We were pioneers and it's true what they say about pioneers getting arrows in the back, but we endured and when I retired as CEO in 2018 we had built the leading thermal energy storage company in the world, with the highest revenues in its 14 year history.My retirement turned out to be short lived as in late 2018, my partners and I launched Bakken Midstream which is unleashing the clean energy potential of North Dakota. I have been able to help a number of other startups including Nelumbo, a nanotechnology, advanced materials venture, Plus Power, a leading battery storage project developer and OGL Engineering, a leader in geomatics. Ever since my wife was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at age 40, I have done all I can as a volunteer to help find a cure for this disease, including volunteer leadership roles with JDRF and raising tens of millions for the cause, and the job's not yet done. Specialties: Start ups; leadership; management; public speaking; Board of Directors and governance; fundraising and financing; negotiating, structuring and closing complex transactions; law; disruptive technologies; clean tech; nanotechnology; biotech; restructuring and workouts

Peter Lorenz is a Member of Board of Directors and Executive Committee; Vice Chair of Education BIG at GREATER ALBUQUERQUE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, President at Quanta Renewable Energy Svc, and Chief Executive Officer at Unirac and is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has worked as Finance Manager at Shell Solar; Management Accountant at Shell Chemicals; and President, Quanta Renewable Energy Services at Quanta Services, Inc.. Peter attended FH Reutlingen; Europaeisches Studienprogramm fuer Betriebswirtschaftslehre between 1992 and 1996, Harvard Business School between 1999 and 2001, and Reutlingen University.

With 20 years of experience leading a wide range of technology-based companies and organizations, Scott Pearson joined Aquion in March of 2011 as its Chief Executive Officer. Scott’s professional experience spans a broad range of industries including uninterruptible power systems (UPS), fuel cell power systems, personal electric vehicles, electronics assembly equipment and materials, digital imaging and defense systems. Prior to joining Aquion, Scott served as President and CEO of Protonex Technology Corporation for six years and remains its Chairman of the Board. Scott has also served on the Board of the New England Clean Energy Council since its inception. Scott holds an M.B.A. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.