A serial entrepreneur, Mike previously founded Vestal Design, an award-winning design firm, and B.MINIMA, an eco-solutions company. He has also lectured environmental engineering and design at Stanford as well as social entrepreneurship at Yale. Mike consulted for Apple on climate change and environmental toxins and worked with Al Gore on the “Inconvenient Truth” presentation. Mike is a LEED accredited professional, a recipient of the EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Award, Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award and BusinessWeek IDEA Award. Mike earned both his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
Brian is a seasoned entrepreneur, engineer and operations manager with experience in fast-growth, high-volume consumer electronics manufacturing. Brian was an early member of the Apple iPod operations team, and was the operations lead for the development and introduction of the iPod mini. Brian went on to manage the introduction of a number of iPod products and manufacturing processes, and was responsible for evaluating and bringing up new production facilities in Taiwan, China, and Europe. Brian has also worked at startups in Boston and San Francisco, including co-founding Potenco. Brian earned a BS from Brown University and MS in Materials Engineering from MIT.
Andrew spearheads forward looking electrical R&D while also driving projects to enhance the existing ReadySet platform. Previously a 5+ year member of the electronic product design firm Indesign LLC, Andrew has been the lead electrical designer on product design teams for companies ranging from Fortune 100 down to burgeoning startups. Products he has designed include Zigbee wireless temperature monitoring nodes, power electronics control circuitry for cardiovascular exercise equipment, and even Linux driven graphical touch screen controllers. Andrew holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and a MS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.
Peter is an entrepreneur and filmmaker with a passion for renewable energy in emerging markets. A fluent Swahili speaker, he has spent several years in East Africa where he launched a mobile cinema startup, managed an American NGO, and directed the TV Production Programme at St. Augustine University of Tanzania. Peter has also directed two award-winning films, “
Into the Light” and “
On the Line,” and co-founded a boutique digital marketing firm. While completing his BA in Film Production at Loyola Marymount University, Peter authored the proposal for a 725kW solar installation that won the
2003 EPA Green Power Leadership Award. He earned his MBA in Sustainable Management from
Presidio Graduate School.
Lyndsay is passionate about rural business development, social entrepreneurship and renewable energy in East Africa and has been working on the ground in these fields since 2003, while studying at Stanford University. Lyndsay has served as the Senior Director of Programs and Innovation for Village Enterprise, founded a rural solar company to pilot innovative marketing, distribution, and financing strategies for emerging markets and created the I AM an Entrepreneur program for young women in Kenya. In her free time, Lyndsay enjoys coaching and playing Ultimate Frisbee and building her solar-powered home in Uganda with her husband Nick and daughter Julia.
In his role as Operations Manager, Jonathan is responsible for managing Fenix Uganda's finance, procurement, administration, logistics and warehousing. After completing his bachelor's degree in Financial Mathematics at Brunel University, Jonathan created his own business in Fes Morocco, where he became interested in Sustainable Development. He later earned an MS in Sustainable Development from Exeter University and in 2010 moved to Sub-Saharan Africa to work as a consultant. Jonathan is passionate about solar products as a clean and renewable way for developing countries to gain access to energy and thus improve their opportunities for income generation and poverty alleviation. Before his time at Fenix, Jonathan was a professional chef and currently is trying to incorporate Ugali (traditional African maize flour) into his repertoire.
Megan has a profound affinity for new product development, high quality manufacturing, and social impact. After years in China as a Project Manager she jumped into the world of energy-efficient consumer products in East Africa as a founding member of
Burn Manufacturing Kenya, modern local producers of clean cookstoves. Megan now leads Fenix’s expansion into Kenya and is inspired by savvy ReadySet users who are realizing the revenue-generating life-changing potential of solar energy. Megan grew up in Asia, speaks Mandarin, taught in rural China as a Fellow with the
Haas Center for Public Service, and holds a degree in East Asian Studies / minor in Social Entrepreneurship from Stanford University. She is a certified yoga instructor and aspiring Daoist who is very much enjoying the natural goodness of East African life with her Irish husband. They use their ReadySet everyday.
