Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Bo Pedersen received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark (TUD) in 1992.  From 1992 to 1995, he was Project Manager at NKT Research Center, Glostrup, Denmark, managing a research group working on integrated optic.  In 1995, he joined AT&T Submarine Systems (Later Tyco Submarine Systems) in Holmdel NJ, USA, where he became the Director of next generation technology and systems. In 2000, Dr. Pedersen became the Founder and CTO of Dorsal Networks, a venture-backed fiber-optic systems company, in Maryland, USA.  This company was sold to the Corvis Corporation in 2002, and Dr. Pedersen continued to run his division as well as obtaining the honorary title of Executive Engineer to Corvis.  Dr. Pedersen joined Sol Voltaics AB as CEO in 2005.  He is also on the Advisory Board to the COM center at DTU.

Email: bo.pedersen(at)solvoltaics.com

Director & Chairman

Magnus Ryde joined Sol Voltaics' board of directors in August 2007 and brings more than 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He graduated from Linköping University in 1979 and Stanford University in 1980 with a MS in Industrial Engineering and later completed an Executive MBA at Stanford University in 1995. Mr. Ryde joined KLA Instruments (now KLA-Tencor) after graduation as Production Control Manager. During his tenure with KLA-Tencor, he managed manufacturing operations, marketing, European sales and service, global field service operations and worldwide sales, service and applications operations and was appointed a corporate officer in 1994.

Mr. Ryde then joined Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) in 1998 as its President of North America. In 2000, he was appointed Chairman & CEO of FlexICs, a flexible display spin-out from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. In 2005 he was named CEO of Intematix Corp., a company specializing in phosphors for light emitting diodes for the solid state lighting market. He is currently the CEO of DayStar Technologies Inc., a thin-film (CIGS) photo-voltaic solar energy company in Silicon Valley. Mr. Ryde has served on the boards of directors of Micronic Laser Systems AB, Strand Interconnect AB, Innolite AB and Effnet Holding AB of Sweden, as well as NextTech Solutions of the United States and Equipnet Ltd of Israel.

Mr. Ryde is currently a partner and principal in Mars Capital Group LLC in the United States. He is also a board member of QuNano AB and GLO AB.; and Chairman of Gemfire Holding Corporation, a fiber optic component manufacturer and serves as an advisory board member with Ubidyne GmbH of Germany.

Steven Morrell has served as a director of Sol Voltaics since inception. Mr. Morrell the Managing Partner of Oslo-based Teknoinvest AS, which he joined in February 2001.  Prior to joining Teknoinvest, he was the Managing Director for 2 years of a Teknoinvest portfolio company, Aquasmart International AS (after a merger now called AKVAsmart ASA).  Mr. Morrell has held numerous positions over the previous fourteen years including Managing Director for Merck & Co., Inc.’s subsidiary in Russia, Central Asia and Caucasia; General Director of Veropharm Co., Ltd (Russia); President of Hafslund Nycomed Pharma AG (Austria) and management consultant in McKinsey & Co., Inc. (Scandinavia). 

He currently serves as a Member of the Board of AKVAsmart ASA (Norway), Marical, Inc. (USA), Optinel Systems, Inc. (USA), OAO Pharmacy Chain 36.6 Group (Russia), and Isolagen, Inc. (AMEX: ILE), as well as an Observer to the Board of Cidra Corporation (USA). Mr. Morrell is fluent in English, Norwegian and German as well as conversational in Russian, and holds an MBA (with Honors) from IMD, Switzerland and a B.Sc. degree with a major in Mathematics and a minor in Aerospace Studies from Brigham Young University.

Gösta Johannesson has served as a director of glō since February 2008. Mr. Johannesson is a partner of Provider Venture Partners and is former Head of Equities and ECM at Öhman Fondkommission, a Swedish corporate finance and brokerage firm and former Head of Sales and Trading, ECM at Handelsbanken Markets, Equities.

He holds the AMP from Wharton Business School and BA in business administration and economics from the University of Uppsala.
 

Chief Scientific Officer, Co-Founder and Director

Lars Samuelson, currently Professor of Solid State Physics at Lund University, is internationally recognised for his breakthrough research on low-dimensional structures and the physics and applications made possible by these structures. In recent years, his research has been directed towards new ways for the formation of ideal one-dimensional heterostructured nanowires through self-assembly, their physical properties, and applications of semiconductor nanowires in electronics, photonics, photovoltaics and the life-sciences.

Dr. Samuelson is the director of the Nanometer Structure Consortium, started in 1988, which is today the primary center for nanoscience in Sweden.  In 2005, the Swedish Research Council identified the research effort “Nanowires for Fundamental Materials Science and Quantum Physics and for Applications in Electronics, Photonics and in Life-sciences”, headed by Lars Samuelson, as one of the top ten scientific environments of all areas of science in Sweden.

Dr. Samuelson is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, FinstP, in the United Kingdom, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (Kungl. Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien, IVA) and also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, (Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien, KVA), which awards the Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics each year. In 2008, he was named "Einstein Professor" by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Samuelson is the author of more than 450 articles in refereed journals, and has given about 250 plenary/invited talks at international conferences and workshops. He received his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics at Lund University in 1977.  He has been recognised by a leading journal as the most prolific European contributor to scientific journals in the nanowire field for the last decade and among the top five worldwide.

Dr. Martin Magnusson received his PhD in Solid State Physics from Lund University in 2001. He subsequently coordinated the startup of Pronano AB, a nanotechnology institute associated with the Nanometer Structure Consortium at Lund University. Dr. Magnusson and his co-workers at Pronano engaged heavily in industrial consultancy as well as nanotechnology information and outreach, through lectures, seminars, workshops, and public exhibitions. In 2005, he again joined Lund University as Liaison Scientist in solid state physics, responsible for industrial contacts and innovation management in nanotechnology. Dr. Magnusson joined Sol Voltaics AB in 2007, as project leader of the company’s photovoltaics R&D effort.