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Prior to SoloPower, Mr. Talieh was a founder, president and CEO of NuTool, a semiconductor electroplating and polishing equipment company. NuTool was acquired by ASM International in June 2004 and Mr. Talieh served as General Manager of the new company, ASM NuTool, which was ASM's Copper Interconnect Systems business unit. Mr. Talieh's other business affiliations include: General Manager of Applied Materials' Track division, where he designed new products, and Vice President and General Manager of the CMP division at OnTrak Systems, developing innovative semiconductor equipment that enabled the company to tap a new multi-billion dollar market. Before leaving, Mr. Talieh helped OnTrak go public. The company was later acquired by Lam Research Corporation. Mr. Talieh began his career in the 1980s at Monosolar Inc., which pioneered a revolutionary new electroplating technique for the deposition of CdTe solar cells on glass. This emerging company was acquired by British Petroleum (BP), which used the acquisition to create BP Solar, enabling it to enter the solar energy market. Mr. Talieh's founding of SoloPower brings him full circle, to focus once again on products that apply groundbreaking photovoltaic technology in new ways. Mr. Talieh earned his degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University, and received a master's degree in materials science from the University of Illinois. He holds more than 63 patents in the areas of Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD), Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP), and photolithography. In addition, Mr. Talieh has authored numerous papers that have been published in leading technical journals. | 