Dave brings over 23 years of broad solar energy industry fervor and experience to EMC. A business development specialist and marketing generalist, he has worked extensively throughout the end-to-end supply chain in both entrepreneurial and corporate settings.

In addition to holding senior mid and upstream positions in the project development and EPC segments, Dave has substantial product bankability establishment experience with start-up and early stage module manufacturing companies.

Previously, he has held positions as Co-founder/Vice President Development, Brightphase Energy, Inc., Vice President, Government Business Development, DayStar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSTI), Vice President, Business Development, Empower Energies, LLC., Vice President, Business Development,
Gehrlicher Solar America, Inc/M+W Energy, Senior Director, Business Development, Suniva, Inc., Senior Vice President, Willdan Energy Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: WLDN)

Drawing on an extensive 30-year background in corporate management, sales & marketing and product engineering, Steve has a spent the last fourteen years relentlessly pursuing low cost, simplified solar module manufacturability.

In 2006 he was recruited as a turn-around CEO for a publicly traded start-up solar thin-film manufacturing company DayStar Technologies (DSTI) where he experienced firsthand the massive capital demand of scaling low throughput PV manufacturing.

Prior to DayStar, he held multiple positions with Inficon and Leybold Inficon over 10 years where he built a new environmental safety and health product business unit, started 5 subsidiaries in Asia while located in Taiwan from 2000-2003 as President of Asia Operations, and initiated a global key account management system as Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Business Development leading to sales growth over 30%.

Steve holds a Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry and a M.S. in Geochemistry from Colorado School of Mines, an MBA from Syracuse University and a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of California, San Diego.

Before joining EMC Tom dedicated 25+ years to invention, technology development and commercialization leadership at Eastman Kodak and NexPress Solutions where he directed R&D and scale-up of highly complex equipment, opto-electronic thin films, software, and materials from invention to product.

He has won 10+ technology and product awards for printing equipment, inks, and high-speed roll-to-roll printed electronics. Tom, an individual and contributing inventor for many of these technologies, holds 106 U.S. patents and several dozen international patents. He is skilled at de-risking product development and efficiently navigating complex interactions that require multi-disciplinary sciences.

Tom holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester and received the CTO Century Award for Extraordinary Achievements in Scientific and Technical Innovation from Kodak.