As managing director, Kevin leverages his past work with PVEL to bring the voice of the customer into PVEL’s strategic planning and daily operations. He joined PVEL from Solaria Corporation, a PV module manufacturer that he co-founded in 2003. While at Solaria as CTO, Kevin not only developed award-winning PV module technologies and unique manufacturing processes, but he also established global production facilities, managed logistics and operations, contributed to investor fundraising initiatives and supported the successful spin-off of Nextracker. Kevin was instrumental to Solaria’s transformation from a start-up into an internationally recognized, technology-leading solar module manufacturer.

Kevin holds an MBA from both Cornell University, Ithaca NY and the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium and a BESc Electrical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. He is named on more than 100 patents.

Tristan previously served as Product and Quality Manager for a major PV module manufacturer, where he oversaw extended reliability testing and was responsible for new product development and new material qualification. He has also directed equipment procurement and technical site operations for solar project developers and Independent Power Producers at a range of projects across North America, South America and Asia

He received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and a University of Washington Clean Energy Institute fellowship.

Prior to joining PVEL in 2021, she spent 4+ years at Levi Strauss & Co. in the Corporate Real Estate department leading a finance team and implementing a real estate lease system globally. Before that, Ingrid held finance leadership positions and drove cost-saving strategies at Adobe and Salesforce.org.