Abtahi teaches solar energy and thermal engineering at Florida Atlantic University, is the Director of the Solar and Fuel Cell Laboratory at FAU, CEO of Geo Solar Energy (Boca Raton, FL), where he works on both PV and solar thermal projects world-wide. He has designed and installed over 500 solar energy systems and won the Florida Governor’s Award in Florida's solar competition. His MS and PhD degrees from MIT are in mechanical engineering .

Doug Turner is a manufacturing expert for Flextronics, the world’s largest contract manufacturer. He has over 20 years of managing design for manufacturing, the last 5 years as Global DFMA Lead for Flextronics accounts Sony and Microsoft. Turner was a manager at Flextronics Design Center, Flextronics Automotive, Flextronics Consumer Digital and Flextronics Mobile. Turner founded two Silicon Valley startups in voice recognition.

Buckley led the development of the MIT-Chevron solar module. His MIT group pioneered sandwich fabricated solar panels that could be made cheaply in local factories. He was an ME professor at MIT, Berkeley, UCLA and Huazhong UST, has 26 US patents, started 3 Silicon Valley startups, wrote McGraw-Hill's most successful solar energy book. His expertise is in thermal systems and manufacturing with a PhD from Berkeley summa cum laude.

Frank Pope has 30 years experience in structured finance, venture capital, and private equity. He is senior counsel to Business Sustainability Network (San Francisco, CA). Pope was a founding general partner of Technology Funding Inc. (San Mateo, CA), a $325 million venture capital firm. He was appointed to the National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology. Pope is a Stanford grad, a CPA and a member of the California bar.

Ron Petrich designed the MIT solar module and productized the MIT/Chevron solar panel. His company, Vanguard Energy made and sold thousands of solar panels on commercial buildings in California. Petrich is a cogeneration consultant for SoCal Gas and the Mexican government; he consults for Capstone Turbine where he trained mechanical distributors in the U.S. and Mexico. He has designed dozens of cogen systems varying in size from 100 kW to 1 MW.