Mr. Doug Schatz is a founder and Chairman of Ampt. Before Ampt he founded and funded Advanced Energy Industries (AEIS), and was CEO, Chairman and President from 1981 through 2005. He retired from Advanced Energy as Chairman in 2014.

While helping to build Advanced Energy he received the IR-100 R&D award, and lead the company to multiple Inc. 500 awards, including in the top 50. The company remains the world leader in its specialty of precision power sources.

After leaving Advanced Energy Mr. Schatz has become more active in philanthropy through his family foundation and through other directed activities. He has also continued to invest in startups in a range of industries and is on the board of several of these companies.

Mr. Levent Gun has over 25 years of technology experience having worked in technical and senior executive-level positions while establishing a track record of successful leadership at both start-ups and mature companies. Levent joined Ampt as its first CEO shortly after its Series A funding and lead all aspects of Ampt’s product and go to market strategies as well as built the team and Ampt’s customer driven culture. Under Levent’s leadership Ampt has created a new category of optimizers for the utility segment of the Solar PV market and became the #1 optimizer company worldwide for this largest segment.

Prior to joining Ampt as CEO, Levent was president and CEO of Kleer, a wireless audio semiconductor company that was acquired by SMSC. Prior to Kleer, Levent was president and CEO of Iospan Wireless, a pioneer in MIMO technology, which was acquired by Intel Corporation. Previously, Levent co-founded and led US Robotics’ Cable Data Business and transformed this fledgling start-up into a $100 million business after 3COM’s acquisition of US Robotics. Earlier in his career, Levent held various engineering management and leadership positions at Motorola and IBM, as well as research positions at several universities and labs.

Levent holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland and undergraduate degrees in engineering and mathematics from Bogazici University in Turkey. He has published extensively in technical journals and holds 14 patents and numerous awards for his pioneering work in high speed data communications and broadband access. An accomplished speaker, Levent is often invited to speak at industry events as well as present papers.

Mr. Gomolak brings demonstrated leadership and experience in global finance and operations across a number of industries including Renewable Energy, High Technology and Forest Products. Aaron’s twenty years of experience includes Georgia Pacific Corporation, Advanced Energy Industries and Satcon Technology Corporation.

Prior to joining Ampt, Aaron served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Satcon Technology, a leading provider of utility scale distributed power conversion solutions for the solar photovoltaic market. At Satcon, Mr. Gomolak was a key member of the management team which developed a global brand and infrastructure. His various roles included leading global finance, information technology, supply chain, manufacturing and quality organizations where he successfully developed partnerships with suppliers, customers and financial institutions throughout North America and Asia.

Previous to Satcon, Aaron held various financial roles of increasing responsibility including seven years at Advanced Energy Industries where he was the Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller, and seven years at Georgia Pacific in operational and corporate finance.

Aaron received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Western Michigan University – Hawthorn College of Business in 1993.

Dr. Fernando Tomasel is the Vice President of Engineering for Ampt.  Dr. Tomasel has more than 20 years of professional experience in technology and engineering, particularly in the area of industrial power electronics.  He leads the Engineering and Product Design Group, including hardware, software, and data analytics.

Prior to joining Ampt, Fernando was Vice President of Engineering for Petra Systems, a solutions provider in the area of renewable energy and data services infrastructure for smart city deployments.  Before working for Petra, Fernando spent 14 years working for Advanced Energy, where he made important contributions to the development of high-performance RF power delivery systems for semiconductor plasma processing, both as an individual contributor and project/division leader.   His work comprises contributions to the development of semiconductor-processing remote plasma sources with unmatched uptime and technical performance.  Fernando also developed and implemented advanced model-based tuning algorithms that enable optimum power delivery to plasma chambers.  As a project leader, he headed the development of the modular architecture and the engineering development programs of some of the industry-leading RF power generators used in semiconductor plasma processing today. Fernando was also Director of Engineering for XUV Lasers, where he developed gigawatt-class solid state pulsed power drivers for soft X-ray lasers.

Fernando holds a Ph.D. and a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University, and a M.Sc. in Physics from University of Mar del Plata in Argentina.  He holds 15 patents and is coauthor of numerous peer-reviewed papers in several areas including soft X-ray lasers, plasmas, optical sensors, neural networks, and biology.  He has also been Adjunct Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University since 2006, and he is a member of its Industrial Advisory Board.  Fernando teaches regularly at both graduate and undergraduate level, and he is member of advisory committees for graduate students.

Mary Adam has over a decade of experience in the renewable energy industry. Her proven track record includes the execution of complex, multi-million dollar battery energy storage system (BESS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) projects with industry leading solar developers, utilities and independent power producers (IPPs).

At Ampt, Mary is the Vice President of Global Sales. She is responsible for establishing and managing relationships with customers and OEM channel partners around the world, and diversifying Ampt’s customer and application base to expand the impact of Ampt’s innovative technology. Mary leads a global sales team to deliver the most competitive solutions for lowering the cost and increasing the production of large-scale PV systems.

Prior to joining Ampt, Mary was the Vice President of Sales at Stem, Inc., where she doubled the company’s pipeline of utility-scale BESS and PV+BESS projects across the U.S. year-over-year and secured the company’s largest strategic partnerships. She also held sales positions at REC Solar, driving sales growth of commercial PV systems and energy efficiency services.

Mary holds a B.S. degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Mr. Mark Kanjorski is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience in strategy, marketing, and business development at both start-ups and established companies. Throughout his career, Mark has served in leadership positions at hardware, software, and service-oriented businesses in diverse industries.

At Ampt, Mark is Vice President of Strategic Marketing. Mark joined Ampt as a start-up in 2009 and serves the company globally in both strategic and commercial roles where he is responsible for go-to-market activities, product marketing, marketing communications, strategic alliances, and business development. Mark is also the founding Chair of the HDPV Alliance, a solar industry alliance of over forty companies from around the world.

Prior to joining Ampt, Mark was a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting LLP where he specialized in strategy and operations for the aerospace, defense, life sciences and technology industries. Before working at Deloitte, he founded and sold KeyLink Transmedia, Inc., a web development and internet marketing company. Mark has also held positions at Lockhart Ventures, Inc. as senior vice president and director and at NMT, Inc.

Mark holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Cornell University.