Prior to founding PVEL, Jenya was the Senior Quality and Reliability Engineer at SunPower where he designed accelerated test methods for high-efficiency solar cells and modules. Jenya began his career at NASA Ames Research Center’s hyper-gravity facilities. He also served as VP of Technology for Cypress Creek Renewables, a utility-scale project developer.

Jenya received an MS and BS at Boston University and UC Santa Cruz, respectively, and holds two photovoltaic-related patents. He has authored many articles and regularly speaks at conferences. Jenya is an Advisory Board Member to NREL’s International PV Module Quality Assurance Task Force and serves on the Board of Directors of PVComplete, a solar design software company.

As president, 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.

Since joining PVEL Tara has held a variety of roles focused on both upstream and downstream commercial operations and development. She has grown PVEL’s client base to over 500 companies and continues to dedicate herself to supporting our clients. She currently leads our business development, project management, and marketing teams.

Tara is an author of PVEL’s Scorecards and is featured in a variety of media outlets as well as at conferences and events. She holds a BA from St. Mary’s College of California and an M.Sc. from Huntington University of Health Sciences.

Most recently before PVEL, Ryan served as a Reliability Engineer for PV module manufacturer Yingli Solar as well as directed operations for their U.S.-based PV Testing Lab.

Ryan holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University. His principal areas of published work have been focused on PV system performance modeling accuracy and module degradation modes, namely potential-induced degradation and mechanical stress test procedures.

He held a variety of engineering and operations roles at Tempur Sealy and ultimately served as Plant Superintendent. He later joined Arzon Solar, a concentrator photovoltaic company, as a senior manufacturing leader.

Chris is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with 5S expertise. He holds a BS and an MBA from the University of New Mexico and is a veteran of the U.S. Navy.