Career history:

1988-to date

The University of Texas Austin; Simultaneous appointments at TheraSense, Abbott Diabetes Care, SynAgile. (Electrical wiring of enzymes and the FreeStyle^TM glucose monitoring systems for diabetes management)

1975-1988

Bell Laboratories (Electrochemical power and hydrogen generating solar cell research; management of high density silicon chip interconnection research)

1964-1975

GTE Laboratories. (The lithium-thionyl chloride battery; neodymium liquid lasers)
United States National Medal of Technology and Innovation(2008)
Fellow of American Academy of Arts & Sciences(2009)

Areas of expertise:

Medical devices; batteries; photoelectrochemical cells

Career history:

1974-present

University of New South Wales, Sydney
(Also serves as Honorary President, Guodian New Energy Research Institute, Beijing)
Director of the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) ) supported by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
SolarWorld Einstein Award (2007), World Technology Award for Energy (2004), Right Livelihood Award (2002) (also known as Alternative Nobel Prize), Australia Prize (2000).

Areas of expertise:

Photovoltaic conversion of solar energy (Developed the world’s highest efficiency silicon solar cells, thin-film, polycrystalline-silicon-on-glass solar cell)

Career history:

2014

Appointed as President & CEO of Solar Frontier

2009-2013

Joined Solar Frontier, most recently serving as Director, EO Vice President in charge of global sales and marketing. Also served as Managing EO of Showa Shell Sekiyu during this period.

2006

Became a Director of Showa Shell Sekiyu following multiple sales and marketing positions

1985

Joined Showa Shell Sekiyu

Areas of expertise:

Mr. Hirano has worked with Solar Frontier since the company’s start of commercial operations, playing an integral role in its growth from its initial 20 MW manufacturing plant to becoming the world’s largest CIS solar energy solutions provider.

Career history:

2009- Present:

Director, Business Development, Archimede Solar Energy.
Board Member at Italian Solar Thermal Energy Association.
Member of Advisory Board to Italian Council for Eco-Innovation.

Prior to joining ASE, Mr. Martini was Director of Business Development to a leading global investment banking and finance engineering company that provides a wide range of financial services to the energy market. This involved playing a key role in developing strategy, securing partnerships and evaluating emerging renewables technologies.

Areas of expertise:

More than a decade of experience in utility-scale solar and other renewable energy power plants.