Team

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  Ryan Levinsonfounder and ceo

  Ryan is a Baltimore native who has been hooked on the clean energy field since his time as a graduate student in the UK. Prior to SunFunder, he was VP of Environmental Finance at Wells Fargo and led $500 million of investments in more than 150 solar projects. Ryan founded SunFunder while working with off-grid solar companies in SE Asia and India in early 2012, where he was struck by the need for new financing solutions to make an off-grid solar revolution possible.

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  Audrey Desideratoco-founder and solar partnerships

  Audrey is French-Indonesian and grew up in 9 countries. She is based in Tanzania, where she implements SunFunder’s East Africa partnerships. Prior to SunFunder, Audrey modeled clean energy projects for GI Energy, and performed market research for energy access impact investor E+Co. She was also a founding member of GOOD magazine. She is inspired on a daily-basis by our solar partners’ work and believes helping them scale is the best job in the world.

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  Sameer Halaico-founder and product lead

  Sameer is born and raised in Bombay and leads product design, development and research at SunFunder.  Prior to this he has worked at the Future Social Experiences lab at Microsoft and most recently was Director of User Experience at Limeade, a health and wellness startup in Seattle. He is the first person in the world with a Masters in Social Computing and is excited about leveraging human connections around the world to create scalable and sustainable solutions.

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  Cindy Nawiliscommunity engagement

  Cindy grows the SunFunder community and ensures that every person, business, and organization connected to SunFunder gets the attention they deserve. Before joining SunFunder, Cindy was with Kopernik managing partnerships with Indonesian local NGO's and distributing clean cookstoves and water filters to rural communities. She is interested in all things related to appropriate technology.

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  Fredys Romeroplatform engineer

  Fredys is a software engineer and Linux/PHP guru who has been programming since the age of 17. He has worked in the software industry as a programmer, team leader, and technology director. In 2010, he founded Beitech, a software company that is focused on serving the e-commerce industry. Fredys holds a Systems Engineer degree from District University of Bogotá FJC, Colombia.

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Advisors

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  Tonio DeSorrento

  Financial securities attorney; formerly with Orrick.

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  Tim Hasset

  Former VP, Kiva; led field partner relationships & loan transactions.

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  Roma Jhaveri

  Managed Kiva’s web platform and back-end systems for four years.

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  Joe Kastner

  Leader in solar project asset management.

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  Craig Kline

  Partner and solar project finance attorney at Troutman Sanders.

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  Phil Larocco

  Founder, E+Co and Embark Energy.

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  Barry Neal

  EVP and head of Wells Fargo’s clean energy financing activities.

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  Athena Ronquillo-Ballesteros

  Leads energy access initiatives at World Resources Institute.

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Partners

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  Hub Ventures

  Hub Ventures helps high caliber entrepreneurs build their world-changing startups better and faster. SunFunder participated in the Hub Ventures Spring 2013 cohort along with six other incredible high-impact startups.
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  Facebook and Cleantech

  SunFunder won the Cleantech Goes Social contest which challenged companies to “leverage Facebook’s billion person network to accelerate cleantech and increase engagement in sustainability”. SunFunder was awarded a prize of $25,000 in addition to ongoing implementation support from Facebook.
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  Orick

  Orrick is a leading international law firm with deep expertise working with solar energy, crowdfunding and microfinance businesses and organizations. They have provided SunFunder with pro bono legal services and we can't thank them enough.
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  Stiefel Family Foundation

  The Stiefel Family Foundation is a hybrid nonprofit which makes seed-stage investments in renewable energy startups and gives away the proceeds as grants to sustainability and job-creation programs in the US and Middle East. They provided SunFunder with matching funds to support the dollar-for-dollar matching loan during our Solar Lights Holiday Challenge. We're extremely grateful for their generosity.