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Appendix B: July 29, 2009, Symposium: State and Regional Innovation Initiatives - Partnering for Photovoltaics Manufacturing in the United States: Biographies of Speakers
Appendix B: July 29, 2009, Symposium: State and Regional Innovation Initiatives - Partnering for Photovoltaics Manufacturing in the United States: Biographies of Speakers
Pages 239-255
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Additional energy industry positions have included operations and strategy roles in retail fuels marketing, strategy and financial roles in business-to-business fuels marketing, as well a corporate role in environmental policy and a development role as chief of staff to one of BP's most senior executives. She began her career as a refinery engineer in Ohio.
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Mr. Bendis has or continues to provide global consulting services to several international organizations including the International Science Parks and Innovation Expert Group, the United Nations, NATO, UK Trade and Industry, European Commission, French Embassy, the German Marshall Fund, and others global ventures.
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Mr. Bendis, also recently provided interim CEO consulting services to the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF)
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in physics from the University of Bristol and achieved tenure as a lecturer at Liverpool University before joining Bell Labs in 1988. At Bell Labs he worked on semiconductor deposition techniques and doping and became director of electronic device research. He worked at Lawrence Livermore as chief technologist and at Applied Materials as director of advanced technologies before joining First Solar in 2006. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, was named Outstanding Young Investigator by the Materials Research Society in 1994, and was MRS president in 2005. STEPHEN EMPEDOCLES Dr. Stephen Empedocles is director of business development for SVTC Solar, a solar development foundry that enables companies to transition new photovoltaic technologies into fully qualified, manufacturable products, ready for volume production.
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Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the world's leading laboratory for energy efficiency and renewable energy research and technology.
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Congresswoman Giffords serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the Subcommittees on Air and Land Forces and Military Readiness where she fights for our military men and women and their families and the installations she represents at Fort Huachuca and Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. On the House Science and Technology Committee and the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, Cong.
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Dr. Guha is an international authority in the science and technology of amorphous silicon alloy solar cells.
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She was an energy scholar in the Program on Science in the Public Interest at Georgetown University and founded a science policy course for science and engineering graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the committee, Dr. Jackson served as a policy fellow at the National Academies of Science and as an AAAS Congressional Science Fellow with the Senate Energy Committee.
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Lushetsky served as program manager of DoE's Solar Energy Technology Program (SETP) with responsibility for all activities under the Solar America Initiative. He directed the program's $170 million budget through solar technology research and development agreements with universities, venture capital funded start-ups, and established companies and oversaw solar research and development through the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
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Mr. McFadden is the secretary to the board of directors of the Semiconductor Industry Association, the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association, and the Semiconductor Research Corporation.
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KENT ROCHFORD Kent Rochford is the acting director of NIST Boulder Laboratories. He is also serving as the chief technical representative for the NIST Boulder Laboratories and acting director of the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory (EEEL)
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DOUG ROSE Doug Rose joined SunPower in 2002 and currently holds the position of senior director, technology strategy. Previous roles at SunPower include product engineering manager of the company's cell pilot line, director of module research and development, and technology development director. His career spans more than 20 years of manufacturing technology development, thin-film PV research, silicon cell and module development, and technology assessment at GTE, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, First Solar, and SunPower Corporation. Dr. Rose has degrees in mechanical engineering from Iowa State and Stanford University, and a Ph.D.
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In 1997, he became chairman of board, MARCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of SRC, which manages the Focus Center Research Program. In 2005, he became chairman of the board, NERC, another wholly owned subsidiary of SRC, which manages the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative.
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Senator Udall is known for reaching across party lines to solve problems and for his willingness to work with people, including those with whom he has philosophical differences. His inclusive and bipartisan approach has led to a number of legislative achievements, including legislation to reduce wildfire risk and barkbeetle infestation, promoting the development of Colorado's aerospace industry, the high technology sector and energy resources, with particular focus on renewable energy and the so-called "Green Energy Economy." Senator Udall also led efforts to successfully pass the James Peak Wilderness Bill and legislation transforming the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons facility into a wildlife refuge.
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In 2007, the House of Representatives twice passed a national renewable electricity standard championed by Senator Udall. He continues his work in the Senate to enact a national RES.
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Ms. Weiss works with industry stakeholders, academia, and governments worldwide, as well as the SEMI International board of directors to drive PV Group's global strategic mission in public policy, standardization, manufacturing supply chain support, market research and other initiatives.
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He has almost 30 years experience in solar photovoltaics. He was the program leader for the Thin Film PV Partnership Program at the National Renewable Energy Lab until 2006.
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