Solar Jobs: Sunrun, TASC, Mosaic, SolarBridge, SkyFuel, EnACT

This episode featuring solar

Eric Wesoff July 28, 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.

Sunrun, the No. 2 residential solar financier, named Michael Grasso as Chief Marketing Officer. Most recently, Grasso served as CMO of TXU Energy, the competitive retail electricity firm. Prior to TXU Energy, Grasso served as senior VP of brand management at USAA, the financial services provider. Sunrun also appointed Cameron Kinloch, formerly with Box and Netflix, as VP of financial planning & analysis. Antonio Cintra was appointed VP of distribution. Cintra was previously with Philips and United Technologies.

Anne Smart, the executive director of The Alliance for Solar Choice, a group formed by downstream solar players to preserve net energy metering, is moving to ChargePoint as director of government relations. A successor has not been named at TASC.

SolarBridge Technologies, which develops microinverters for integration with solar modules, named Mark Sandoval, formerly an executive at Intel, SunPower and Bloom, as executive VP of global strategy.

Mosaic, a peer-to-peer solar finance company, added Bruce Ledesma as chief operating officer. Most recently, Ledesma served as executive vice president and general counsel of SunPower.

SkyFuel, a maker of solar parabolic trough systems used for electricity generation and industrial steam applications, promoted Kelly Beninga to the role of president from his previous position as the company's chief commercial officer.

Matt Cheney joined enACT Systems as executive chairman and board member. The company is developing a solar software sales platform. Cheney was the founder and CEO of MMA Renewable Ventures, an early U.S.-based solar independent power producer; he also serves on the board of ACORE and the Solar Electric Power Association.