Advisory Board

Lee Feliciano

Lee has been involved in virtually all aspects of the PV systems integration business, from developing and executing marketing plans to assisting with system installations. His front-line experience in sales, customer service and project management as well as community outreach and education make him an ideal candidate to represent Quantum PV to the PV systems installer community and to help them develop new markets once the UHE solar cell has reached commercial viability.

Lee began his career as a Real Estate Analyst with Pepsico Foodservices in 1989. His primary responsibility was to establish an in-house Site Location Analysis and Market Development Planning function for the Canadian market. In 1994 Lee started GeoDemographics, providing site location analysis and market planning services to a wide range of retail and financial sector clients including Talbots, Bank of Montreal and Cadillac Fairview Corporation.

Lee started LVF Corp in 1997, specializing in real estate and marketing applications for
geodemographic data and Geographic Information Systems technology. Services included
analyzing large customer databases to detect patterns that enabled the prediction of consumer spending behavior. As Managing partner, he oversaw all business operations, including business development, sales, administration, client service and production.

Lee’s first entry into the renewable energy arena was in 2004 as Director of Business
Development at PerfectPower. where he was responsible for the development of the
residential and commercial grid-tie PV market in Arizona. He developed the business
infrastructure required to transform a primarily web-based retailer of renewable energy
equipment into a provider of turn-key solar electric (PV) systems. Other key responsibilities included development and implementation of a prospecting/ sales system for the grid-tie PV market, establishing relationships with strategic partners, including architects and developers and performing community outreach activities to increase awareness of solar PV technology and incentives available within the state.

He moved on to become a Sales & Marketing Consultant for Good Power Company/ Energy Solutions Providers, LLC, a solar systems integrator, where he is responsible for sales and marketing activities including lead generation (residential and commercial accounts), community outreach and new marketing initiatives. In addition, he assists in project management, system installation and developing relationships with strategic partners.

Lee also owns and operates ValleyoftheSunSolar.com, a website with the goal of building solar energy awareness using popular art as a vehicle. He also teaches a popular workshop at Scottsdale Community College called “Going Solar in Arizona: Essential Information About Solar Electricity for Your Home or Business”. The popularity of this solar workshop has led to invitations by various groups, including the Maricopa County Manager’s office to deliver lectures on the topic of solar energy.

Lee is an alumnus of and guest lecturer at Solar Energy International (Carbondale, CO) as well as a member of the Arizona Solar Energy Association and the Scottsdale Green Building Advisory Committee. He has a B.A.A. from Ryerson Polytechnic University and a joint MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Evanston, IL) and Schulich School of Business (Toronto, Canada).

Lane Garrett

Lane has an extensive background in solar manufacturing, systems integration, retail and large-scale industrial applications, including over 45 years experience as an electrical engineer. Lane has over 30 years experience as an entrepreneur in energy conservation and renewable energy, and has introduced more than 20 successful new products to these markets. Currently owner of ETA Engineering Inc., an Arizona Corporation specializing in new product development, design and distribution of Renewable Energy Systems and line-tied power plants. Previously, Lane was Chief Technical Officer and President, as well as a Director of SunAmp Power Co. Inc., a technical leader in photovoltaic systems design, manufacturing, and distribution. Responsibilities included design, new product development, consulting, manufacturing, and training of distributors and dealers. Lane has also founded other renewable energy-related companies.

Lane has a PE, BSEE from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA and an MS Engineering from Arizona State University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer and Certified Energy Manager. Lane is member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the National Association of Corrosion Engineers, past president of the Arizona Solar Energy Industries Association (ARISIA) and the Motorola Technical Society. Lane is a Board member of the IEEE Phoenix Consultants' Group.

Lane is Past Chairman of and currently on the board of ASEA (Arizona Solar Energy Association); he is also on the board of the Arizona Solar Industries Association, Treasurer of the Arizona Solar Center, on the Board of the IEEE Consultants Network, and President of COSSD the Council On Sustainable Systems Development. He is on the Advisory Boards of AMI, a USA-Africa Small Business Network that fosters contacts and increases business between AZ and African companies, and the American Hydrogen Association.

Dr. Jacob Hohl

Dr. Hohl's initial experience was as Design Engineer with Standard Telephone and Radio., Zurich, Switzerland where he developed relay circuits for telephone switches and supervised production and performed final test of radar receivers with stationary echo suppression.

As a Staff Engineer with IBM General Technology Division in Vermont, Dr Hohl's responsibilities included developing memory organizations, sensing schemes, and discrete and integrated transistor circuits for thin magnetic film memories. Dr. Hohl left IBM and went into academia in 1970, receiving an MS in Physics from the University of Vermont and an MSEE and a PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Arizona.

Dr. Hohl left IBM and returned to the University of Arizona as a Research Engineer in Electrical Engineering; his research included custom VLSI chip design methods, semiconductor device modeling, radiation effects in integrated circuits, effects of micro-contamination in processing on electrical performance of VLSI chips, and thermal analysis for VLSI chips and packages.

Since 1985, along with his work at the University of Arizona, Dr. Hohl has provided consulting to companies such as Motorola., Phoenix, AZ, in the field of high-performance microelectronic packaging, DuPont Co., Wilmington, DE, in the field of high-performance microelectronic packaging, and Veeco Instruments, Santa Barbara, CA, in the field of measurement technology for sheet and layer resistance in semiconductor devices.

Dr. Hohl has also held senior technology positions at IBM Burlington Advanced Systems Division where he was involved in the development of evaluation methods for the manufacturability and reliability of IBM's 64K DRAM and IBM Storage Products Division where he was responsible for circuit and chip design for custom VLSI chips implemented in bipolar, CMOS and NMOS technologies. He has also been a research Engineer with Western Research Co., Tucson, Arizona where he developed readout channel circuits for visible light photon counter (VLPC) devices.

Dr. Hohl has been an adjunct Professor at the University of Vermont and the University of Arizona (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering). As a member of the University of Arizona's SEMATECH Center of Excellence team he designed experiments for evaluating effects of micro-contamination on VLSI device characteristics; designed test chips for investigation of micro-contamination effects by electrical measures; established automatic wafer-test facility for parametric evaluation of test structures. Dr. Hohl has received two Outstanding Innovation Awards and one Outstanding Invention Award from IBM (for patent 3,654,109), holds five world-wide patents and has authored or co-authored eighteen publications. Dr. Hohl is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ISHM (International Society for Hybrid Microelectronics).

Michael Johnson

Mike is a two-time recipient of Honeywell's Top Scientist Award (1990 & 1992) and his technical achievements can be linked directly to several billion dollars in revenue for Honeywell. He is a member of Honeywell's All Star Patent Team and a recipient of numerous other company honors and awards

Mike's first position at Honeywell was as Information and Decision Technology Laboratory Department Fellow where he provided technical leadership for department's 110 scientists. The IDT Laboratory developed human interface, visualization and display system technologies for Honeywell's Industrial, Home and Aerospace products. During this time he acted as Honeywell Labs' representative on the corporation's eBusiness Advisory Council, established a Honeywell-wide web Collaboration team which sparked company wide collaboration initiatives, invented a new user interface navigation means (patent pending) for portable display and computing devices, and invented a new video to information system (patent pending), which Honeywell Labs spun out to Honeywell's Redmond Division for planned productization.

Prior to Honeywell, Mike worked at NASA where he held various titles from Senior Engineer to Senior Staff Research Scientist. His achievements included leading the 2D and 3D Graphics Processor Display portion of the Air Force's Cockpit Display Generator program, providing a technical roadmap for advanced image generation capability for next generation fighter aircraft, produced world's first VHDL breadboard of a complete graphics generation system (hardware and software), solved LCD flicker problem using an architecture now in worldwide use, invented LCD gray scale, image quality and related graphics generation and driver methods derivatives of which are in worldwide use and of high commercial and licensing value, and led the development of numerous new products including the award winning B-52 Radar Scan Converter whose accuracy and functional innovations won national military fly-off competitions.

His last position at NASA was as Technical Director and Program Manager for their High Speed Research Supersonic Program. While in this position, he was selected by NASA, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas to lead their joint R&D effort, which included the $13M eXternal Vision System (XVS) Camera and Displays Team, featured across the country in NASA's televised technology reports. His efforts were significant in leading the team to win NASA's Group Achievement Award in 2000. Michael created Intellectual Property (8 broad scope patents, more derivative patents) for ultra-high resolution technologies while cultivating numerous patents among subcontractors and alliance companies. He established base technologies and talent pool for Honeywell's cockpit projection display product development.

Mike has a BSEE (Electronic Engineering) from Case Western University and a MSEE from Southern Methodist University. He has also undertaken graduate studies at the University of Southern California and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also published numerous articles and presented at various conferences.