Craig Wellen

Silicor Materials, Inc. manufactures solar silicon and multi crystalline solar cells. It operates as a supplier to the solar photovoltaic industry as well as other industries who use aluminum-based products. The firm purifies silicon, casts the silicon into ingots, cuts the ingots into bricks using diamond saws, cuts the bricks into wafers using wire saws, and converts the wafers into solar cells through a series of steps to form the photovoltaic junction. The company was founded by Kamel Ounadjela, Fritz Kirscht, and Eicke Weber in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

BPL Global LLC provides electric utilities with a suite of grid solutions for distribution automation from substations through customer premises. It offers data analytics and demand, grid and DER management solutions. The company was founded by Keith E. Schaefer and Andres Wydler in 2004 and is headquartered in Canonsburg, PA.