Speakers

Richard Loyen

Managing Director of Enerplan, the French Solar Energy Business Association

The mission of Enerplan is to represent and improve the solar industry sector and market in France. The French market is one of the top ten worldwide photovoltaic markets with a current annual market growth of more than 100 percent.

Paula Mints

Senior PV expert, Principal Analyst, PV Services Program & Associate Director of Navigant Consulting (USA)

Paula has ten years of experience in analyzing the Photovoltaic industry from a demand and supply perspective using primary survey data. Her research has been published in industry magazines and she is a frequent conference speaker. Paula is executive editor of the Solar Outlook Newsletter, which has a 30 year history of reporting on the PV industry.

Joe Berwind

Joseph Berwind is author of the book ''Investing In Solar Stocks'' and founder of ''Alternative Energy Investing''

Joe's ten years of industry experience includes chemical market research and institutional sales at Marubeni Corporation, one of Japan's leading general trading companies with offices in 83 countries, managing global product distribution and manufacturing for Japan's top firms. Joe's three areas of research and investment focus were alternative energy, commodity and specialty chemicals and technology.

Gerhard Stryi-Hipp

Head Energy Policy at Fraunhofer Institut for Solar Energy Systems ISE
Previous: Managing Director of the BSW

After leading the German Solar Industry Association (BSW-Solar) for 15 years as managing director, Gerhard started an independent consultancy firm and took up the function of Head Energy Policy at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE.

Javier Anta

President of ASIF, the Asociación de la Industria Solar Fotovoltaica (Spanish SolarEnergy Industry Association: www.asif.org)

More than 490 Spanish companies involved in solar PV are currently members of this organisation, which was founded in 1998. Mr Javier Anta is a veteran of the Spanish solar energy market and, as an advisor on behalf of ASIF, is involved in all discussions with the Spanish government about the new feed-in tariff. Spain is currently the world's second-largest PV market.

Stelios Psomas

Stelios Psomas is a consultant on energy and environmental issues. He is a policy advisor with the Greek photovoltaic industry (HELAPCO), and an energy advisor of Piraeus Bank (a leader in PV financing in Greece). Mr Psomas is a highly reputed expert in the Greek PV market and industry and one of the initiators and promoters of the feed-in tariff system, which is currently generating enormous interest in new PV applications and power plants in Greece. Mr Psomas is a former executive director of Greenpeace in Greece.

Gert Gremes

President of GIFI

Gert Gremes was born in 1964. He started his activities in photovoltaic technology in the end of 1980. In 1998 he took over Tecnospot srl, changing its core business from lightning devices to a company distributing photovoltaic materials, including technical support/services for those installers and experts interested/working in the field of PV applications. Mr. Gremes is a GIFI Member since the Association foundation (June 1999) and its President since 2006.

Henk Vanderhaeghen

Before joining the Solar industry, Henk Vanderhaeghen gained more than 16 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, in a variety of functions, ranging from R&D in IMEC (Leuven), to IC Product Engineering to Manufacturing Management in Mietec/Alcatel Micro-Electronics (Oudenaarde). He worked for almost 3 years in the Philippines (Manila) as Operations Director for AMI Semiconductor, after which he lead during 2 years the WaferFab-Consolidation project in AMIS Belgium, merging two semiconductor wafer fabrication plants (4-inch and 6-inch wafers) into one. Since he joined Enfinity 1.5 years ago, he's in charge of Operations, covering Supply Chain Management (Purchasing & Logistics), the PV Solutions Knowledge Center as well as Quality & Reliability.

Prof. Donghwan Kim

Prof. Donghwan Kim is one of the most important PV experts in Korea. He was President of the Korea Photovoltaics Development Organization (KPVDO) in Korea University, which has been a leading organization in planning and management of R&D projects as well as in demonstration and field test projects. Mr. Donghwhan Kim is a member of the International Energy Agency Task 1 working group with the task to promote and facilitate the exchange and dissemination of information on the technical, economic, environmental and social aspects of PV power systems. He is heading the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Korea University in Seoul, Korea. He has led a team for writing up the ‘Korean PV Vision 2030’.

Dr. Hiroshi Matsukawa

Senior Consultant, Overseas Division RTS Corporation (Japan)

Dr. Hiroshi Matsukawa works for the RTS Corporation, the leading organisation for consultancy and expertise in the Japanese PV Market.

Vishal Shah

Sales and Trading, Barclays Capital

Vishal Shah joined Barclays Capital in September 2008 as the head of Cleantech equity research team. Formerly, he was the lead Cleantech equity analyst at Lehman Brothers, covering U.S and China-based solar stocks. Vishal has been an equity analyst covering solar and semiconductor equipment sectors since 2002 at firms such as Lehman Brothers, Needham & Company, and Morgan Stanley. In 2009, his team received top recognition in the Greenwich Associates survey. Before joining Wall Street, Vishal worked in the semiconductor equipment industry at Applied Materials. Vishal earned a B.Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and an M.B.A from INSEAD, France.

Rajiv Arya

Dr. Rajeewa (Rajiv) Arya, M. Tech., Ph. D is presently the Chief Executive Officer l at Moserbaer Photovoltaic (MBPV) in New Delhi, India. He was previously the COO & CTO for the Thin Film Vertical. He joined MBPV as a Senior Vice-President & CTO (Thin Film) in September, 2007.

He has over 25 years experience in thin-film solar cells and modules. His R&D activities have centered on material and device aspects of three types of thin-film solar cells and modules – amorphous silicon, copper-indium-diselenide, and cadmium telluride. His work includes product design, process scale-up, process transfer, piloting and start-up of a thin-film solar module plant. He has maintained a professional interest in many aspects of renewable energy components and systems.

Bronislav Bechnik

RES Specialist CZREA (Czech Renewable Energy Agency)

Dipl. Eng. Bronislav Bechník, Ph.D. has aimed for sustainability on a personal level since the end of 1993. At CZREA (Czech Renewable Energy Agency) he is involved in research activities and the preparing of background information for promotion activities both in frame of international projects (PV NMS NET and PV Legal) and projects on a national level against national regulation authorities and policy makers.

CZREA (Czech Renewable Energy Agency) is a nonprofit nongovermental organisation aimed at the promotion of renewable energy resources. In the photovoltaic area it is recognised as the leading organisation in the Czech Republic. Currently, CZREA is preparing the establishment of the Czech Photovoltaic Association.

Stephen Cai

Director China Electric Equipment Group (CEEG), Chairman of the board of CEEG SST and Business CEO of CEEG PV

B.V. Naidu

Chairman ISA (India Semiconductor Association)