Executive Team

Paul Nahi - President, Chief Executive Officer

Paul Nahi has over 20 years experience in both entrepreneurial and multinational high technology companies. Most recently, Paul was the CEO of Crimson Microsystems, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in large scale SONET ICs for the telecommunications industry, with customers in Russia, India and the United States. Prior to Crimson, Paul was the CEO and co-founder of Accelerant Networks, a semiconductor company that designed and developed intelligent multi-gigabit transceivers. Accelerant was acquired by Synopsis, Inc. Prior to Accelerant, Paul served as General Manager of the Communications and Media Divisions for NEC Electronics. Before NEC, Paul was the Senior Director for Diamond Multimedia where, as an early member of the executive team, he helped grow Diamond from a small, privately held enterprise to a publicly traded company with offices worldwide and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Paul has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MBA from the University of Southern California.

Martin Fornage - Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer

Martin was the first Hardware Engineer at Advanced Fiber Communications where he designed a large variety of modules ranging from power supplies to Fiber optics through wireline and RF communications. He eventually led the Hardware Engineering group there. After AFC, Martin started a consulting firm providing system and assembly level design services to AFC, Cerent, Cisco, Calix and other companies. Martin brings a wealth of practical experience designing high reliability, high volume and cost effective electronics susceptible to be deployed in harsh environments. He co-founded Enphase Energy with Mr. Belur in March of 2006. Martin received his "Ingenieur diplome d'etat" degree from ENSEA, France in 1985.

Raghu Belur - Co-founder, Vice President of Marketing

Raghu Belur has more than 15 years of experience in the clean energy and high technology industries. Prior to Enphase, he developed high-speed optical communication technology for Cerent, which was later acquired by Cisco Systems for $7 billion. Before Cerent, Mr. Belur was an engineer at the Indian Institute of Science, where he played a key role in the development of an alternative energy gasification system. He co-founded Enphase Energy with Mr. Fornage in 2006. Mr. Belur has a MSEE from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Sanjeev Kumar - Chief Financial Officer

Sanjeev Kumar brings more than 15 years of experience in the global energy markets. He previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENER) ("ECD"), a Michigan-based supplier of thin-film flexible solar laminates. At ECD, Sanjeev was instrumental in commercializing new technologies, reaching profitability, completing a successful capital raise in excess of $400 million, and delivering significant value to shareholders. Immediately prior to joining Enphase, Sanjeev was the CFO for HelioVolt, an Austin-based producer of thin film solar products. He additionally spent nine years with Occidental Petroleum Corporation in Los Angeles. Prior to joining ECD, Sanjeev served as the CFO for Rutherford Chemicals, a specialty chemical company owned by a private equity firm, and was previously CFO for the US operations of Rhodia, a publicly held chemicals company. He also served on the Board of Los Angeles-based Solar Integrated Technologies where he facilitated the sale of the company to ECD. Sanjeev holds a B.A. in Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Southern California.

Greg Steele - Vice President of Operations

Greg Steele has a degree in Industrial Engineering from Oregon State University. He spent the early portion of his career with Texas Instruments and DSC Communications Corporation in various manufacturing and operations positions. He served as the Vice President of Operations and later the Chief Operating Officer for the telecommunications company Advanced Fibre Communications. Greg also served as the Chief Executive Officer for the Nelson Family of Companies, a human capital and staffing firm.

Jeff Loebbaka - Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Jeff Loebbaka brings more than 20 years of senior sales and marketing management experience from leading high technology companies. Prior to Enphase, Jeff was senior vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa at Seagate Technologies, a leading storage solution provider, where he held multiple senior sales and marketing operational roles. Prior, as senior vice president of global channel sales and marketing, Loebbaka led efforts that resulted in Seagate's multi-billion dollar channel business growing by more than 170 percent in two years. Before Seagate, Jeff was vice president and general manager of Adaptec's desktop solutions business, where he also held the role of vice president of worldwide channels and corporate marketing. Jeff also brings valuable marketing and channel experience from senior marketing leadership roles at the Life Fitness Division of Brunswick, Zenith Data Systems and Apple. Mr. Loebbaka holds an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois.

Andrew Nichols - Vice President of Americas Sales

Andrew Nichols joins Enphase having led North American Sales for Xantrex Technology where he was responsible for distribution, dealers, commercial integrators and OEM business partners in the Renewable Energy and Back Up Power markets. He grew annual revenues 33% while creating OEM or preferred supplier relationships with GE Solar, BP Solar, SunPower, and PowerLight. Prior to Xantrex, Andrew was the Director of Business Development and Sales at Vendavo, a venture funded Silicon Valley enterprise software company where he established key customer relationships with companies such as OfficeDepot, Staples, DHL and UPS. Previously he held sales management positions of increasing responsibility at Apple Computer and IBM. Andrew earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

Nelu Mihai, Ph.D. - Vice President of Engineering

Nelu Mihai has over twenty years of experience as a proven technology executive, with a history of building effective teams and bringing innovative products to market. Nelu’s early career was spent at Microtec/Ready Systems and AT&T Bell Labs where his last position was Division Manager. Most recently, he was the EVP of Product Development at Packeteer, Inc.(NASD:PKTR) where he managed a large product development team in several remote locations. Nelu was instrumental in the acquisition of Packeteer by Bluecoat (NASD: BCSI). Prior to Packeteer, Nelu was the SVP Engineering & Operations at Cloudshield Technologies,a network security company and CEO/COO of CPlane Inc, a software telecom startup. Nelu has a M.S., Computer Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, and a Ph.D., Computer Science from CERN Geneva, Switzerland.

France Antelme - Director, Product Verification

France Antelme has twenty years experience in design and testing of High Reliability Military and Telecommunications Carrier-Class Quality systems. He was most recently with Cisco Systems (formerly Cerent Corp) where he was responsible for Product Verification on Carrier-Class SONET Optical Platforms and Terabit Routers. During this period, he created and staffed a multinational test organization that achieved full ISO 9001 certification and field-verified Carrier-Class 99.9999% Reliability on the SONET Optical Platform.