Green Jobs: Executive Moves at Flextronics, SEIA, 1366, Stion, Essess

New CEOs, directors, and executives in utilities, cleantech, and alternative energy

Eric Wesoff March 26, 2014

Eric Wesoff

Editor-at-Large
Greentech Media

Eric Wesoff is Editor-at-Large at Greentech Media. Prior to joining GTM, Eric Wesoff founded Sage Marketing Partners in 2000 to provide sales and marketing-consulting services to venture-capital firms and their portfolio companies in the alternative energy and telecommunications sectors. Mr. Wesoff has become a well-known, respected authority and speaker in these fields.

His expertise covers solar power, fuel cells, biofuels and advanced batteries. His strengths are in market research and analysis, business development and due diligence for investors. He frequently consults for energy startups and Silicon Valley's premier venture capitalists.

Jeannine Sargent, President of Energy at Flextronics is now President of a newly formed group, Innovations and New Ventures, at the manufacturing and supply chain giant. Sargent was CEO of Oerlikon before joining Flextronics.

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) announced new members of its Board of Directors: Susan Brown, Principal at Brightenergy; Tony Clifford, CEO at Standard Solar; Todd Glass, Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati; Ed Murray, President of Aztec Solar; and Laura Stern, co-founder and President of Nautilus Solar Energy.

VC- and DOE-funded silicon wafer manufacturer 1366 Technologies named Brian Eller VP of Manufacturing. Most recently, Eller served as Schott's VP of Operations, North America. The startup looks to announce the location of its U.S.-based 250-megawatt plant this year.

Pete DeGraff, formerly EVP at inverter builder Satcon, is now EVP of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Stion. Khosla Ventures holds a controlling stake in the CIGS thin film solar startup.

Jeff Wolfe, founder and former CEO of groSolar, is now COO of Wilson Solarpower. According to Wolfe, the firm is "developing a distributed-scale (300-kilowatt) solar thermal power-tower electric generation plant with storage, allowing us to generate electricity from solar 24/7 in high-DNI climates."

Jenya Meydbray is now Head of Qualification & Component Testing at DNV GL, following the acquisition of PV Evolution Labs.

Thomas Scaramellino has been named CEO at Essess, a startup that uses thermal imaging to assess building envelopes for energy efficiency. Scaramellino was founder and CEO of Efficiency 2.0, an energy efficiency software and rewards firm that was sold to C3 Energy in 2012.