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History

Founder Scott Frazier started his career at Orbital Sciences, designing delivery systems and rockets. In doing do, he developed an interest in energy density platforms and long-term reliability engineering. He later applied these principles to his passion for renewable energy and created a philosophy of bringing products to market without using high cost manufacturing techniques or conducting expensive, high risk material science development.

Product evolution leading up to the Photensity™ System concept began in 2000 when Scott built, designed, and installed various prototypical solar co-generation technologies by concentrating solar electric with thermal heat capture. This was successful, it worked, and it is the foundation of the current Photensity™ design.

The Photensity™ System was designed by award-winning rocket and satellite engineers with decades of reliability and system engineering experience.

In 2008, BrightPhase Energy hired Tom Warda to build a business around the commercialization of the Photensity™ System. Capitalizing on the New Energy Economy, Tom has positioned BrightPhase to become a leading renewable energy supplier to the energy efficiency industry.

The first commercial installation was completed in October, 2009. The rest is history.

Management

BrightPhase Energy's management combines a great balance of experienced start-up executives and seasoned professional project managers. The Company has engaged experienced and successful business development people who have extensive management, manufacturing, and administrative skills. The Company has also recruited an Advisory Board whose members have started several nationally recognizable companies and have participated in the financing and growth of many other successful businesses.

 
Scott R. Frazier, Founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer
Scott founded BrightPhase (originally Solar Focus, Inc.) in 2000 with a vision to create cost-effective energy solutions for large problems affecting the health of the earth. While consulting part-time in the aerospace industry, he deployed the company's early solar cogeneration product, BiSolarTM, for in-field testing that in 2006 developed into the solar tri-generation commercialization product, Photensity™. Scott has 20 years of experience leading large design, engineering, and manufacturing teams on $100+ million rocket engineering programs for NASA and commercial rocket launch programs. He previously held the position of Vice President, Program Manager & Chief Engineer of Beal Aerospace Technologies, Inc. where he managed a 200 person team in the design, manufacturing, and testing of the largest rocket boosters since the NASA Apollo Program. Prior to Beal Aerospace, Scott was the Senior Principle Systems Engineer for Orbital Sciences Corporation. At Orbital, he was selected to co-lead the company's Advance Project Group which designed and evaluated numerous launch vehicle configurations that later became NASA's X-34 program. Scott holds numerous patents both in the aerospace and renewable energy industries. Awarded NASA's prestigious Space Flight Awareness award, Scott received his BS (with honors) in Aero & Astronautical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, and an MS in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1987.

John J. Tandler, Vice President of Engineering
John has 25 years of broad technical and executive management experience in satellite communications, aerospace systems engineering, and renewable energy fields. He was previously founder and CEO of SkyMate Wireless, Inc. an innovative satellite based messaging technology company startup which was acquired by an industry competitor. Prior to SkyMate, John held numerous senior positions with Orbital Global, LP, including Chief Technical Officer, Vice President of Engineering and Operations, and Director of Space Segment Engineering. He managed 100+ engineering and technical teams, led new product innovation development, and was responsible for the successful development, launch, and deployment of the 30-satellite ORBCOMM satellite constellation. Prior to Orbital, John was a Senior/Principal Systems Engineer at Grumman Aerospace where he was responsible for systems engineering for integration and on-orbit testing of International Space Station assembly flights. Early in his career, John researched and developed innovative and highly efficient residential heating and cooling systems for the Thermo Electron Corporation. He holds a variety of patents in the aerospace and renewable energy industries. John holds an MS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering and a BS from University of Virginia in Mechanical Engineering.

Ares Ho, Vice President of Asia Pacific Product Development
Ares has more than 15 years of experience developing, engineering, and manufacturing electronic technology products in the Asia Pacific region. Previously, he was President and CEO of Banylands, Inc., a company that assists international high-tech companies with engineering, manufacturing partner sourcing, manufacturing line design and development, and managing logistics. A successful entrepreneur, Ares was founder and President of P.T. RukoLift, which developed an innovative energy-efficient elevator system for local small five-story buildings in Indonesia. Prior to P.T. RukoLift, Ares was Senior Business Developer for Divio, Inc., where he established a branch office in Singapore to enable the expansion of the Asia Pacific region market with partners including Philips, Thompson Multimedia, and CreativeLabs. Prior to Divo, Ares was a Senior Partner and co-owner of a silicon-valley based hardware/software design consulting company, Consilium Group, where he was the lead architect for a satellite control-system network, designed a proprietary high-speed serial protocol system used in successful launch of an I-9 satellite and GlobalStar. He began his career with Cisco Systems, Inc. as a Hardware Design Engineer where he became the lead engineer for a Frame Relay module in Cisco's WAN equipment product line. Ares is a U.S. citizen and a graduate of University of California, Berkeley, holding a BS in electrical engineering. Located in Hong Kong, he speaks, reads, and writes fluent Mandarin, Cantonese, and English, and speaks fluent Indonesian.

Gloria Mallard, Director of Business Operations
Gloria Mallard is a business executive with over twenty-five years of experience creating value for the organizations where she has been employed. Most recently, she was one of the founders of Global Energy Decisions, an energy information and software company established in 2002. As a member of the senior management team, Gloria developed strategies for targeting and acquiring businesses; set up the company's physical operations; supervised the company's administrative and human resources functions; developed plans for strategic growth; was a member of the due diligence team for five acquisitions over a six year period; managed the integration challenges of those acquisitions; and provided leadership to the company's managers and employees. Gloria began her career as an energy market analyst specializing in market research and data collection; fuel procurement strategies; market dynamics and behavior; regulatory policy analysis; and regional market forecasts. As Director of Client Services for RDI, an energy data company, she supervised all aspects of client support, software training, product fulfillment, customer outreach, and marketing activities. Ms. Mallard graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. in government. She lives in Longmont, Colorado with her husband Tom.

Lester Parker, Director of Information Technology
Lester was hired from Oppenheimer Funds where he spent the last 10 years as a senior web systems developer and application architect. Lester's ability to integrate disparate systems and data was a perfect fit for BPE's need to develop an application to collect its unique energy production telemetry and structure it into a data warehouse containing historical energy profiles. Gathering data from its electrical, thermal, and lighting systems on a large scale combined with the ability to interpolate data and depict energy efficiencies, system performance, and module diagnostics in real time necessitated BPE 's requirement for an expert in the design and development of Intranet and Internet web applications. Lester has repeatedly demonstrated his design expertise developing innovative web-based applications in a career that has flourished across Aerospace, Energy, and Finance. Lester pursued a BS in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas where was recruited as a software engineer for TANDEM Computers in Cupertino, and later moved to Denver where he and his wife are raising their three children.