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Chester Aldridge
Doug Froese
Mary Hubert
Simon Price
Todd Weimer
Tony Shapiro |
| Chester Aldridge
Mr. Aldridge has over 15 years of experience in founding, operating and financing businesses, ranging from start-ups to multi-million-dollar publicly traded companies. Areas of operation have included technology, manufacturing, publishing and software verticals. Highlights of Mr. Aldridge's career include raising over $100 million of private equity, licensing major Hollywood properties including MTV's Jackass, Disney brands and Frank Miller's Sin City, and securing sales and distribution deals worth tens of millions of dollars from partners including Vivendi Universal, Sony and Disney.
Currently Mr. Aldridge is Co-Founder and Chairman of Equity Solar, which has secured the exclusive license to a patented solar photovoltaic technology. Equity Solar's technology is used within a solar cell manufacturing line and lowers manufacturing costs while dramatically improving cell efficiency by creating silicon oxide-based anti-reflective coatings in a room-temperature process. The technology was co-developed by Special Materials Research and Technology (SPECMAT), NASA and the US Department of Defense. Equity Solar has retained the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems, based at M.I.T in Cambridge, Mass., as a consultant for the purpose of validating the commercial value of the technology.
Mr. Aldridge also is Co-Founder and Chairman of Equity Micro Tech, which has secured the exclusive license to the above room-temperature silicon-oxide-based coating process for all applications outside the solar energy sector, but with a focus on microelectronics applications. The technology was co-developed by Special Materials Research and Technology (SPECMAT), NASA and the US Department of Defense.
In addition to his renewable energy interests, Mr. Aldridge is Founder and President of The Royal Factory, a music label that has exclusively licensed the rights to Austin Brown, nephew of Michael Jackson.
Mr. Aldridge is a Life Member of the Stanford Business School Alumni Association. The Stanford Business School also awarded Mr. Aldridge for attending the Executive Program for Growing Companies in 2000. |
