Our team is one of the industry's smartest and most talented groups of people; our leadership includes:

Martin Roscheisen
Chief Executive Officer
Martin Roscheisen is a serially successful technology entrepreneur with a passion for building industry-defining products and companies. Named one of the United States' top 10 entrepreneurs under the age of 40 by Fortune, Martin Roscheisen has a track record of creating three information technology companies with a combined value of more than $1.2 billion. In 2001, Roscheisen decided that green energy is mandatory in today's world as well as a vast entrepreneurial opportunity, and started developing the very best team and technology to turn solar electricity mainstream. An Austrian citizen born in Munich, Martin Roscheisen got his Silicon Valley apprenticeship as a teenager during a year at Xerox PARC. He received advanced engineering degrees from Stanford University and Munich Technical University, and holds a doctorate from Stanford University's School of Engineering.

James McNicholas
Chief Financial Officer
James McNicholas joined Nanosolar from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies where he was the top finance executive of the $5 billion hard disk drive business. Prior to Hitachi, McNicholas held a distinguished succession of financial positions at IBM over a period of 22 years, including serving as the top finance executive of four IBM business units. For the IBM PC company’s manufacturing & development operations, McNicholas managed the worldwide financial operations of 12 manufacturing plants and two labs. As the controller of IBM’s Consumer Division, McNicholas redirected business from the retail channel to direct fulfillment. In 1999, McNicholas was called upon to become the top finance executive of IBM's Storage Systems Division where he established best-of-breed global operational management for 13 manufacturing facilities and four R&D facilities worldwide. McNicholas holds an M.S. degree in Management from Stanford University and a B.S.in Finance from Drexel University, and also served on the board of directors of Hitachi's storage companies in China and the Philippines.

Werner Dumanski
Executive Vice President of Operations
Werner Dumanski was IBM's top manufacturing executive prior to joining Nanosolar, responsible for the company's $4.5 billion storage components business, a world-wide organization of 12,000 people, and a billion-dollar equipment budget. One of the largest volume producers of thin-film disks and recording heads in the world, Dumanski's unit generated as much as 60% of all of IBM's profit while successfully implementing several generations of the industry's most challenging and advanced new disk technologies. As part of this, Dumanski also succeeded in delivering on one of the steepest manufacturing ramp-ups ever for a high-tech product -- for a new storage disk that enabled the Apple iPod product. Werner Dumanski started his career at IBM's wafer and disk production operation in Mainz, Germany, helping ramp this business to a high volume operation with the industry's leading cost structure. In 1993, he assumed responsibility for IBM's San Jose recording manufacturing operation which he overhauled, increasing wafer production by a factor of 3, reducing cycle time by a factor of 6, and establishing a modern SPC and APC controlled factory.

Brian Sager
Vice President of Corporate Development
Brian Sager manages the company's government programs, its intellectual property portfolio, and its relationships with customers in the United States. Prior to co-founding Nanosolar, he led a high-growth biotechnology practice at Ernst & Young where he advised industry-leading companies on corporate finance issues, R&D portfolio management, and technology licensing. He has worked with both private and public companies at all stages of growth, including Genentech, Hewlett-Packard, Maxygen, Genencor, and Symmyx. Dr. Sager has negotiated more than 100 licensing, R&D collaboration, and join venture deals. Brian Sager earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Stanford University and did his postdoctoral work at Harvard University.

Erik Oldekop
Managing Director, Nanosolar International
Erik Oldekop is responsible for the company's supply and customer relationships world-wide. Oldekop was an investment professional with Deutsche Bank AG where he focused on semiconductors and industrial applications. Prior to this, he was a Vice President at Deutsche Bank working in Frankfurt, Tokyo, and San Francisco in various management functions. Dr. Oldekop is a physicist by training and performed nuclear solid-state physics semiconductor research at Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin and Philipps University Marburg, Germany.

Martin Roscheisen, see above

Brian Sager, see above

Bill Gurley
Benchmark Capital
Bill Gurley joined Benchmark Capital in 1999 after spending two years as a partner with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Before entering the venture capital business, Bill Gurley spent four years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst, including three years at CS First Boston focusing on the personal computer hardware and software business. His research coverage included such companies as Dell, Compaq, and Microsoft, and he was the lead analyst on the Amazon IPO. In both 1995 and 1996, Bill Gurley was a member of the Institutional Investor All-American Research Team. Prior to his investment career, Bill Gurley was a design engineer at Compaq Computer, where he worked on products such as the 486/50 and Compaq's initial multi-processor server. Before Compaq, he served in the technical marketing group of Advanced Micro Devices' embedded processor division.

Erik Straser
MDV
Erik Straser joined MDV in 1998 and specializes in investing in and building energy, materials and software companies. Prior to MDV Erik worked at Interval Research Corp., a technology incubator funded by Paul Allen, and at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a technical staff member. He also consulted to several seed and early stage venture capital firms. While pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering at Stanford, Erik led an interdisciplinary project between the electrical, mechanical, and civil engineering departments to develop a next-generation monitoring system for critical facilities. He holds a U.S. patent from his research work. From 1996 to 1998, he served as president of the Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students (BASES), Stanford's largest student group focused on entrepreneurship and technology management.

Siva Sivaram, Ph.D.
Independent Director
Dr. Sivaram most recently was the Chief Operating Officer of Matrix Semiconductor, bringing to Matrix unrivaled experience in running a high-volume semiconductor manufacturing business. After receiving his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dr. Sivaram began a 14-year career at Intel, where he ended up serving as General Manager of the billion-dollar IC Procurement and Enabling Division, responsible for portions of Intel's chipset design, all external integrated circuit procurement, and production of Intel chips which were not manufactured in Intel fabs. In that position, Dr. Sivaram was known worldwide as the world's largest consumer of semiconductor foundry wafers. Dr. Sivaram authored the book Chemical Vapor Deposition: Thermal and Plasma Deposition of Electronic Materials (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995) that is used at many U.S. universities at the graduate level. He has published over fifty technical papers and also held positions as Research Scholar at Matsushita Electric in Japan, Technologist at SEMATECH, and Adjunct Faculty at San Jose State University.

Doug Norby
Board Advisor
Doug Norby has been vice president and CFO of some of technology's most admired companies including LSI Logic, Mentor Graphics, and Syntex Corporation. Norby is a director of LSI Logic Corporation, Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc., and Jazz Semiconductor Inc., among others. From 1985-1992, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Lucasfilm Ltd. Norby received his B.A. in Economics from Harvard University and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.