Meet Our Team
Greg Hildeman, ScD
Founder, President
Dr. Greg Hildeman is the President and has over 30 years of research and manufacturing experience casting aluminum and experience in the solar industry manufacturing ingots, wafers and cells. Greg has a Sc.D. degree in Metallurgy from MIT with a minor in Business from the Sloan School of Business.
Men Glenn Chu, ScD
Co-Founder, Vice President of Research
Dr. Men Glenn Chu, Vice President of Research has over 35 years expertise in continuous casting, modeling heat transfer, characterization of cast microstructures and solidification of metals at high cooling rates. Men has a Sc.D. degree in Metallurgy from MIT.
Eric Theisen, PhD, MBA
Co-Founder, Vice President of Engineering
Dr. Eric Theisen, Vice President of Engineering has 20 years of experience in research and manufacturing and is an expert on casting. Eric has an MBA from the University of South Carolina and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.
Chester C. Lee, MBA
Co-Founder, Chief Financial Officer
Chester Lee, CFO has 25 years of management consulting experience for clients in the Energy & Utilities, Telecom and Defense industries. Chester has an MBA in Finance and General Management from the University of Chicago, and MS & BS degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT.
Technical Advisory Board (TAB)
Currently our TAB consists of three members who are recognized experts in evaluation of cast microstructures, rapid solidification, properties of silicon wafers, solar cell design, and the effect of impurities in silicon on cell efficiency.