Khosro E. Mehrfar has served
as Chief Executive Officer since the company establishment. Dr.
Mehrfar’s interest in alternative energy started early in mid
70’s when he was an undergraduate student in college of
engineering at the university of Tehran, Iran.
After
graduation, he moved to U.S. to pursue higher education and
earned his Master in 1982 and Ph.D. in 1986 in Civil engineering
with emphasis on environment, energy and natural resources
from the University of Akron, Ohio with emphasis on energy and
environment.
While at the university, he led a team of engineers for the 3D
design of NASA's wind
tunnels at Lewis research center and later designed and
implemented a GIS computer system for Public Utilities
Commissions of Ohio - PUCO
under Governor Richard Celeste and current co-chair of Homeland
Security project at Century Foundation.
The
deliverable which was successfully installed at PUCO's
headquarter in Columbus, Ohio was an advanced computer system to
fully control and manage all electrical power grids across the
state.
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After completing graduate school, he moved to California and started working for
Los Angeles office of Bechtel
Corporation, an engineering and construction Management Company
and became manager of automation on Bechtel’s Disney-MGM
Studios Theme Parks projects in Paris. While at Bechtel,
studying the complexity of the management of nuclear reactor
power plants to create electricity in U.S. and in Europe
convinced him that to produce safe, clean and enduring energy,
solar power is one of the best alternatives. This conviction was
further confirmed after he was assigned to a joint U.S. and
Europe energy producing project with Italian power corporation
Enel and EDF of France.
He started his own
company, Mehr US Corp. and his interest in alternative,
sustainable clean energy lead him to be part of a start-up company dedicated to solar
energy.
Dr. Mehrfar is a board member of the following
Professional Societies
- Council on Natural Resources, Gerson
Lehrman Group
- American Solar
Energy Society, Orange County Chapter
- Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
- The Society of Industry Leaders,
GuidePoint Global - a Standard & Poor Company
- Bechtel Network of Professionals
- Association of Professors &
Scholars of Iranian Heritage, regular member
Dr. Mehrfar has been
interviewed by Local, national and international TVs and Radios on cultural and environmental
issues including CNN international for his role as the chairman
of a United Nations sponsored global event through UNESCO, a
report of which, can be found on Harvard
University, Pluralism project.
Dr.
Mehrfar holds the California General Building Contractor
license, Energy
Management Systems (EMS) certificate and Primavera Management certificate.
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