The Solar Phoenix - How America can Rise from the Ashes of Solyndra to World Leadership in Solar 2.0

The SOLAR PHOENIX

How America can Rise from the Ashes of Solyndra
to World Leadership in Solar 2.0

Brad Mattson, renowned Silicon Valley entrepreneur, has moved from semiconductors into the solar industry and is hoping to have an even bigger impact in this critical and exciting sector. He has outlined the strategy in his book “How America Can Rise from the Ashes of Solyndra to World Leadership in Solar 2.0”.  The book offers a detailed roadmap of how solar will lead us to the new energy economy and outlines how the United States can beat manufacturing juggernauts like China by using advanced solar manufacturing technology developed here in the United States. At this presentation, key messages from the book will be presented including how:

• Solar is the biggest energy story of this century, with major global impact on: economy, health, climate, security and poverty.
• The tipping point for solar has arrived, igniting what will be a multi-decade growth explosion that takes us from 100GW to 15,000GW of solar capacity.
• America can be a solar superpower and dominate Solar 2.0, manufacturing at a lower cost and higher quality than China.

Brad Mattson
Biography

Brad Mattson is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Siva Power, an advanced solar technology company based in Silicon Valley. He joined Siva Power in 2011, bringing together a world-class team focused on making CIGS thin film technology and manufacturing the foundation of the Gigawatt Era in solar.

Mattson is a renowned entrepreneur from the semiconductor industry and began his career at Applied Materials. He later founded and scaled both Novellus and Mattson Technology, to date, the only founder of two publicly-traded semiconductor equipment firms. Novellus was acquired for $3.3 billion. Immediately prior to Siva Power, Mattson was a venture partner for Vantage Point Capital Partners, where he focused on renewable energy, in particular solar.

Mattson has been listed as one of the top 50 most influential people in the semiconductor industry. He has also received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Ernst & Young, the Distinguished Alumni Award from San Jose State University and the Founders Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Santa Clara University.

Mattson is the author of The SOLAR PHOENIX: How America Can Rise from the Ashes of Solyndra to World Leadership in Solar 2.0.