Our World Class Team Summary
NovaSolar boasts a world class team of East and West with senior executives from both the US, Asia, and Greater China region. They bring extensive experience in energy, solar, semiconductor, high-technology and manufacturing sectors, as well as infrastructure development. Our management team possesses a breadth of functional experience in start-up companies, high-volume manufacturing, product development, infrastructure development, the marketing of emerging products/technologies, strategic partnering, cross-cultural management, professional services and corporate finance. This unique combination of skill sets enable continuous innovation, efficient manufacturing, and the consistent supply of low carbon footprint clean utility-scale solar power solutions to the energy industry.






Rorce Au-Yeung - Chief Executive Officer
    • Executive Vice President & General Counsel at Veolia Environment Asia and Waste Management Asia, responsible for all Asia new businesses and P&L of China
    • Legal Counsel for Exxon Chemical Asia, and distributor manager with Intel Asia
    • Admitted to the California Bar, and 20+ years of executive experience in environmental and new energy industry in Greater China
    • JD, Santa Clara University, BS (accounting) San Jose University
Dr. Marvin S. Keshner - Chief Scientist & Strategist
  • Co-Founder of OptiSolar
  • One of the CTO’s of Hewlett-Packard's most profitable Imaging & Printing Group (26 +years)
  • Holders of fundamental patents on silicon enhanced deposition system
  • BS, MS and PhD from MIT Electrical Engineering
Darien Spencer - Chief Operating Officer
  • COO of OptiSolar with 25+ years of experience in high technology and manufacturing and operations
  • 20+ years of executive level operations and high-volume production experience at companies including Maxtor, Seagate Technologies, Peak International, and Spectrian Corporation
  • Former Senior VP Asia Operations at Maxtor, managing $4 billion operations
Dr. Gautam Ganguly - Chief Technical Officer
  • Technical Executive with 11+ years of Leadership experience in Solar (PV) Industry, with 25+ years of Technology Development experience in the US and Asia
  • Contributor on US DOE “National Thin Film PV Team” and the “Sunshine Project” of Govt. of Japan
  • Senior R&D positions in United Solar Ovonic Corp, BP Solar
  • PhD., Physics in Jadavpur University, India; M.S., Physics in Indian Institute of Technology, India; B.S., Physics in Delhi University, India
Dr. Erik Vaaler - Head of Engineering
  • 20+ years experience in electro-mechanical design of industrial and consumer products
  • Co-founder of OptiSolar, and Head of group's design and development of the manufacturing equipment
  • HP technical staff; Independent consultant for Applied Materials
  • Former engineering faculty member at MIT; MS & PhD in mechanical engr., MIT; BS from UC Berkeley
Boyang Liu - Chief Investment & Financial Officer
  • 10 years of financial management experience
  • Investment banking with JP Morgan (New York); Strategic planning with PayPal, HSBC (US); and CFO of Dongjiang Hong Kong
  • MBA, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; MS in environmental engineering, University of Connecticut; BS in Nuclear engineering, Tsinghua University
Dr. George So – Executive Vice President & General Manager
  • GM & Global Director of Sales of DuPont Apollo Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of DuPont China Limited, responsible for global thin film PV business
  • VP of the China Energy Association in China & Senior Advisor to Shenzhen Solar Energy Society
  • Member of CPPCC, Foshan municipality, GD, PRC.
  • D.Eng(Hon.), Lincoln University, USA, B.Sc, M.Sc and MBA, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Member of advisory committee(2004-2010) of the accreditation society, part of the Innovation & Technology Commission, HKSAR Government
  • Member of the advisory committee of the Innovation & Technology Committee of Hong Kong Trade Development Council