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.

Mr. Russell “Rusty” Schaeffer joined Ampt in March 2018. His career combines a unique track record of success in global operations, transformation, and supply chain. Mr. Schaeffer has been an integral force in driving Ampt’s product cost down and scaling global operations in the Asia Pacific region. He is focused on improving the customer order fulfillment processes and reducing product lead-times with a robust, high-velocity, high-quality, and localized supply chain.

Mr. Schaeffer has held executive positions at ROKU, Advanced Energy, Motorola, Flextronics, and Seagate Technology. He has supported numerous transformations inclusive of successful IPOs, providing scale and predictability to customer fulfillment, and revenue attainment. A consistent thread of value-add is double digit COGS reduction and gross margin improvement through managed staff in every region of the globe.

Mr. Schaeffer holds a BSEE from the University of Arizona, and an Engineering Management Certificate from the California Institute of Technology.

Mr. David Pascualy has over 20 years of experience in the renewable energy industry. David first established a track record in the early days of commercial and industrial PV projects in California, and then expanded into utility scale PV project development and inverter product management. David’s experience spans from startups to well established multinationals in the US, LATAM, Europe and Asia.

At Ampt, David is the Vice President of Sales for the Americas where he is responsible for establishing and managing relationships with a diverse set of customers and OEM channel partners. David is a champion for Ampt’s customers and partners where he brings together sales and technical teams to deliver the most competitive solutions. He is focused in the utility scale PV power plant market segment where Ampt is a key player in DC-coupled energy storage to enhance grid stability, and in repowering existing PV systems to help IPPs extract additional value from existing solar plants while providing clear technical and financial benefits.

David’s early engineering career began at Fairchild Semiconductor specializing in memory and high speed logic devices before transitioning to sales and marketing at IBM, where he was tasked to grow market share in the public sector for the State of California and private sector targeting the retail segment.

David holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California.

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.