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Chief Executive Officer / Chief Financial Officer - Tom Werthan

Tom Werthan joined EPV in February 2007 as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Werthan has over twenty years experience in assisting high technology, venture capital financed growth companies. Prior to joining EPV, Mr. Werthan served as Chief Financial Officer and Director at Emcore Corp where he remains a Director. Prior to that, he was associated with The Russell Group, a venture capital partnership, as Chief Financial Officer for several portfolio companies. Prior to that, Mr. Werthan served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Audio Visual Labs, Inc., a manufacturer of multimedia and computer graphics equipment. Mr. Werthan received his BS/BA from Boston University.

Chief Operating Officer - Robert Bryan

Robert Bryan joined EPV as our Vice President of Operations in March 2007. Previously, he was Vice President / General Manager of Fiber Optics at EMCORE Corporation. He joined EMCORE in December 1997 when EMCORE acquired the company he founded, MicroOptical Devices, Inc. From 1995 to 1997, Dr. Bryan was the President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of MicroOptical Devices, a leader in fiber optics components. Prior, to starting MicroOptical Devices, Dr. Bryan was a founder of Vixel Corporation, the first company to commercialize vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers. At Vixel (NASDAQ: VIXL, eventually purchased by Emulux), Dr. Bryan was founder, Director and Executive Vice President for operations and research & development. Dr. Bryan received a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from the University of Illinois and is an inventor on over a dozen patents.

VP & General Counsel - Howard Brodie, Esq.

Formerly the Chief Legal Officer, Executive Vice-President and Secretary of EMCORE Corp., Mr. Brodie has significant experience in commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and corporate governance. While at EMCORE, he played an active role in financing transactions, helping EMCORE raise more than $300 million in the capital markets. He was also critical to several strategic transactions, including the sale of the company's joint venture interest for $100 million, the sale of its New Jersey manufacturing operatons for $80 million and the acquisition of numerous complementary businesses and product lines. Prior to EMCORE, Mr. Brodie was with the law firm of White & Case, LLP, where he practiced corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and clerked for Chief Judge Gilbert S. Merritt on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Managing Director, Germany - Franz Kemper

Mr. Kemper recently served as Senior Vice President of Production for Qimonda AG, where he was responsible for production sites worldwide, serving about 17% of the global DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) market. Qimonda is a carve-out from Infineon Technologies AG, where Mr. Kemper was Senior Vice President of the Memory Products Group. He started his career at Siemens AG’s semiconductor group in testing and product engineering. Mr Kemper holds a degree in physics from the University of Duisburg.

VP, Research & Development - Alan E Delahoy

Dr. Alan E. Delahoy, born in London, England, is Vice President, Research and Development, at Energy Photovoltaics, Inc., with 23 years of National Laboratory and industrial research experience. He is an internationally recognized pioneer in photovoltaics and thin-film technology. He has served as a member of the advisory board for Crystal Lattice Defects and Amorphous Materials, and currently serves on the editorial board for Photovoltaics Bulletin. He received a B.A. (Hons) degree in Physics from the University of Oxford in 1971 and an M.A. in 1976, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University in 1979.
Joining Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1979, he worked as an Associate Scientist on amorphous silicon produced by R.F. glow discharge until 1981. He left Brookhaven to join Chronar Corporation, becoming Director of Research and Development in 1983, and continued in that capacity at Advanced Photovoltaic Systems (APS) in 1990. In 1991, Dr. Delahoy became VP R&D for Energy Photovoltaics, Inc.
At Chronar Corp. he investigated a-Si:H materials and devices prepared by static CVD, LPCVD, APCVD, photo-CVD, and PECVD techniques, and introduced buffer layers, tandem cells, and ZnO reflectors to Chronar's technology. He was jointly responsible for the invention of the highly successful carrier concept using vertical, close-packed substrates for large-batch processing of amorphous silicon. At APS, he achieved, on 4/6/1990 , a world record power output of 74.4 W for a monolithic thin-film module.
At Energy Photovoltaics, Inc., Dr. Delahoy has led tandem junction a-Si development and optimization to support EPV's commercial Integrated Manufacturing System, and has established a strong effort in nanocrystalline Si. In the area of Cu(In,Ga)Se 2 he has contributed to large-area hybrid deposition processes using linear thermal sources and sputtering, and is leading CIGS module development. He has also performed module annual energy delivery calculations based on irradiance distribution functions, and has invented new processes for the formation of transparent conductors. He is also managing scale up and applications for linear, reactive-environment, hollow-cathode sputtering. He has 90 publications and conference papers, 10 patents, and several patents pending.