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- In 2002, Roscheisen co-founded and became Chairman and CEO of the first solar energy company in Silicon Valley focused on making solar power broadly affordable: [[Nanosolar]].
- In 2002, Roscheisen co-founded and became Chairman and CEO of the first solar energy company in Silicon Valley focused on making solar power broadly affordable: [[Nanosolar]].
<ref>{{cite web|last=Marshall |first=Matt |url=http://www.nanosolar.com/cache/merc081504.htm |title=SJMN San Jose Mercury News |publisher=Nanosolar.com |date=15 August 2004 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> Nanosolar pioneered a fast process for simply printing solar cells on low-cost metal foil. Roscheisen raised more than $500 million in capital for Nanosolar (starting with [[Google]] founders, LinkedIn founder [[Reid Hoffman]], Zynga founder Mark Pincus, [[Sunil Paul]], VCs [[USVP]] and [[Benchmark Capital]], hedge fund manager Steve Cohen at [[SAC Advisors]], [[Passport Capital]], and private equity firm [[Carlyle Group]] as well as the world's largest utility [[Électricité de France|EDF]] and power producer [[AES Corporation|AES]]), built a 100MW semi fab and a 640MW assembly plant, and secured $4.1 billion in customer supply contracts from EDF (the world's largest utility) and other energy utilities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3 |title=Nanosolar Blog |publisher=Nanosolar.com |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> Under Roscheisen, Nanosolar became a Silicon Valley flagship company in green technology, widely featured in the media including Fortune,<ref>{{cite web|last=Lashinsky |first=Adam |url=http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/04/16/8404301/ |title=Fortune on John Doerr and Martin Roscheisen in greentech |publisher=Rmartinr.com |date=11 April 2007 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> Gigaom,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gigaom.com/cleantech/10-questions-for-nanosolar-ceo-martin-roscheisen/ |title=Earth2Tech |publisher=Gigaom.com |date=30 July 2007 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> the SJ Merc,<ref>{{cite web|author=Jay Yarow|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/1/vc-investing-drops-for-2008-but-green-grows |title=SJ Merc |publisher=Rmartinr.com |date=24 January 2009 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> Wired,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/nanosolar/ |title=Wired |publisher=Wired |accessdate=4 December 2011 |first=Alexis |last=Madrigal |date=9 September 2009}}</ref> VentureBeat,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/27/nanosolar-outshines-the-competition-with-a-300m-financing/ |title=Nanosolar outshines the competition |publisher=Venturebeat.com |date=27 August 2008 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> EDN,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rmartinr.com/cache/edn.htm |title=EDN |publisher=Rmartinr.com |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> Motley Fool's,<ref>{{cite web|last=Uldrich |first=Jack |url=http://www.rmartinr.com/cache/motfo.htm |title=Motley Fool's |publisher=Rmartinr.com |date=15 December 2006 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> Business Week,<ref>{{cite web|last=Gangemi |first=Jeffrey |url=http://www.rmartinr.com/cache/BWGreen.htm |title=Business Week |publisher=Rmartinr.com |date=20 June 2006 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> USA Today,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rmartinr.com/cache/usatoday.htm |title=USA Today |publisher=Rmartinr.com |date=26 April 2004 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> and receiving a number of outstanding awards such as the No. 1 technology innovation award in 2007 by Popular Science Magazine<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2007/index.html |title=Popular Science Magazine |publisher=Popsci.com |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> and TIME magazine's innovation of the year award (as No. 1, ahead of the iPhone as #2)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rmartinr.com/cache/TIME-best-of-2008.htm |title=TIME Awards |publisher=Rmartinr.com |date=8 April 2010 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> as well as the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greenvc.org/2010/09/companies-selected-as-technology-pioneers-2011-in-energy-and-environment-by-world-economic-forum.html |title=World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award |publisher=Greenvc.org |date=1 September 2010 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> After eight years as Chairman & CEO, Roscheisen left the company in 2010, with neither Roscheisen nor the company issuing any comment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rmartinr.com/index.html |title=r. martin roscheisen |publisher=Rmartinr.com |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|last=Marshall |first=Matt |url=http://www.nanosolar.com/cache/merc081504.htm |title=SJMN San Jose Mercury News |publisher=Nanosolar.com |date=15 August 2004 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> Nanosolar pioneered a fast process for simply printing solar cells on low-cost metal foil. Roscheisen raised more than $500 million in capital for Nanosolar (starting with [[Google]] founders, LinkedIn founder [[Reid Hoffman]], Zynga founder Mark Pincus, [[Sunil Paul]], VCs [[USVP]] and [[Benchmark Capital]], hedge fund manager Steve Cohen at [[SAC Advisors]], [[Passport Capital]], and private equity firm [[Carlyle Group]] as well as the world's largest utility [[Électricité de France|EDF]] and power producer [[AES Corporation|AES]]), built a 100MW semi fab and a 640MW assembly plant, and secured $4.1 billion in customer supply contracts from EDF (the world's largest utility) and other energy utilities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3 |title=Nanosolar Blog |publisher=Nanosolar.com |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> Under Roscheisen, Nanosolar became a Silicon Valley flagship company in green technology, widely featured in the media including Fortune,<ref>{{cite web|last=Lashinsky |first=Adam |url=http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/04/16/8404301/ |title=Fortune on John Doerr and Martin Roscheisen in greentech |publisher=Rmartinr.com |date=11 April 2007 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> Gigaom,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gigaom.com/cleantech/10-questions-for-nanosolar-ceo-martin-roscheisen/ |title=Earth2Tech |publisher=Gigaom.com |date=30 July 2007 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> the SJ Merc,<ref>{{cite web|author=Jay Yarow|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/1/vc-investing-drops-for-2008-but-green-grows |title=SJ Merc |publisher=Rmartinr.com |date=24 January 2009 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> Wired,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/nanosolar/ |title=Wired |publisher=Wired |accessdate=4 December 2011 |first=Alexis |last=Madrigal |date=9 September 2009}}</ref> VentureBeat,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/27/nanosolar-outshines-the-competition-with-a-300m-financing/ |title=Nanosolar outshines the competition |publisher=Venturebeat.com |date=27 August 2008 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> EDN,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rmartinr.com/cache/edn.htm |title=EDN |publisher=Rmartinr.com |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> Motley Fool's,<ref>{{cite web|last=Uldrich |first=Jack |url=http://www.rmartinr.com/cache/motfo.htm |title=Motley Fool's |publisher=Rmartinr.com |date=15 December 2006 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> Business Week,<ref>{{cite web|last=Gangemi |first=Jeffrey |url=http://www.rmartinr.com/cache/BWGreen.htm |title=Business Week |publisher=Rmartinr.com |date=20 June 2006 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> USA Today,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rmartinr.com/cache/usatoday.htm |title=USA Today |publisher=Rmartinr.com |date=26 April 2004 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> and receiving a number of outstanding awards such as the No. 1 technology innovation award in 2007 by Popular Science Magazine<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2007/index.html |title=Popular Science Magazine |publisher=Popsci.com |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> and TIME magazine's innovation of the year award (as No. 1, ahead of the iPhone as #2)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rmartinr.com/cache/TIME-best-of-2008.htm |title=TIME Awards |publisher=Rmartinr.com |date=8 April 2010 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> as well as the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greenvc.org/2010/09/companies-selected-as-technology-pioneers-2011-in-energy-and-environment-by-world-economic-forum.html |title=World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award |publisher=Greenvc.org |date=1 September 2010 |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> After eight years as Chairman & CEO, Roscheisen left the company in 2010, with neither Roscheisen nor the company issuing any comment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rmartinr.com/index.html |title=r. martin roscheisen |publisher=Rmartinr.com |accessdate=4 December 2011}}</ref> Nanosolar was named a top 10 "patent power" manufacturer in 2011 by IEEE, with Roscheisen himself named inventor on more then 34 patents. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=roscheisen&FIELD1=INNM&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=PTXT |title=Patents}}</ref>


- In 2011, Roscheisen started a grid storage company in the Shanghai area with backing by the Chinese government.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://guntherportfolio.com/2011/06/chinese-billboard-sparks-cigs-photovoltaic-speculation/ |title=Chinese billboard sparks speculation |publisher=guenterporfolio.com}}</ref>
- In 2011, Roscheisen started a grid storage company in the Shanghai area with backing by the Chinese government.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://guntherportfolio.com/2011/06/chinese-billboard-sparks-cigs-photovoltaic-speculation/ |title=Chinese billboard sparks speculation |publisher=guenterporfolio.com}}</ref>

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Martin Roscheisen
Born
Roland Martin Röscheisen

Muenchen, Germany
CitizenshipAustrian
EducationMunich Technical University (B.S., 1992)
Stanford University (PhD, 1997)
Occupation(s)Technologist, entrepreneur
Website[1]

R. Martin Roscheisen is an Austrian-American technology entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley.

Early life

Martin Roscheisen was born and raised in Munich, Germany, as an Austrian citizen.[1] Attending Feodor Lynen high school near Munich, he graduated valedictorian in 1987. While still a teenager, he spent a year at the legendary Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in Silicon Valley. He subsequently studied computer science and electrical engineering at Munich Technical University, graduating at the top of his class. In 1992, he moved to California to earn a doctorate in engineering at Stanford University (with fellow students in Terry Winograd's group of the same year including Sergey Brin and Larry Page.)

Business

Roscheisen was among the first generation of entrepreneurs in the late 1990s pursuing opportunities in the commercial Internet; and starting in 2000 he was one of the first entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley to focus on green energy technology:

- In 1995, Roscheisen co-founded FindLaw, which became the most widely used Internet legal site, for the first time making U.S. case law including all Supreme Court decisions accessible to the public. FindLaw is now a business unit of Thomson[disambiguation needed]'s West Group.

- In 1997, Roscheisen, with Stanford professor Yoav Shoham, created TradingDynamics, an enterprise software company which was acquired by Ariba for $740 million in 2000.

- In 1998, Roscheisen became founder and CEO of eGroups, an email messaging company, which was financed by Sequoia Capital and ultimately acquired by Yahoo for $450 million. (Google founder Larry Page's brother Carl was also a co-founder of eGroups.[2])

- In 2000, Roscheisen teamed up with Mark Pincus (today CEO of Zynga) to form an incubator called Tank Hill Projects (named after a neighborhood hill in the vicinity of which both reside in San Francisco) to create a series of new companies. Funded with an initial $10 million, the entity rapidly expanded to a headcount of 50 but shut down by October of the same year to return capital at minimum loss.[3]

- In 2002, Roscheisen co-founded and became Chairman and CEO of the first solar energy company in Silicon Valley focused on making solar power broadly affordable: Nanosolar. [4] Nanosolar pioneered a fast process for simply printing solar cells on low-cost metal foil. Roscheisen raised more than $500 million in capital for Nanosolar (starting with Google founders, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Zynga founder Mark Pincus, Sunil Paul, VCs USVP and Benchmark Capital, hedge fund manager Steve Cohen at SAC Advisors, Passport Capital, and private equity firm Carlyle Group as well as the world's largest utility EDF and power producer AES), built a 100MW semi fab and a 640MW assembly plant, and secured $4.1 billion in customer supply contracts from EDF (the world's largest utility) and other energy utilities.[5] Under Roscheisen, Nanosolar became a Silicon Valley flagship company in green technology, widely featured in the media including Fortune,[6] Gigaom,[7] the SJ Merc,[8] Wired,[9] VentureBeat,[10] EDN,[11] Motley Fool's,[12] Business Week,[13] USA Today,[14] and receiving a number of outstanding awards such as the No. 1 technology innovation award in 2007 by Popular Science Magazine[15] and TIME magazine's innovation of the year award (as No. 1, ahead of the iPhone as #2)[16] as well as the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer award.[17] After eight years as Chairman & CEO, Roscheisen left the company in 2010, with neither Roscheisen nor the company issuing any comment.[18] Nanosolar was named a top 10 "patent power" manufacturer in 2011 by IEEE, with Roscheisen himself named inventor on more then 34 patents. [19]

- In 2011, Roscheisen started a grid storage company in the Shanghai area with backing by the Chinese government.[20]

Miscellaneous

  • Roscheisen was named a Technology Pioneer by the Davos World Economic Forum in 2007[22] (but chose not to attend) and was awarded TIME magazine' "most innovative product of the year".[23]
  • Roscheisen's San Francisco home was featured on the cover of Dwell magazine in 2002 for its award winning design.
  • Roscheisen is said to have inspired Allan Loeb to write the scene in Wall Street 2 where an entrepreneur raises funds for a thin-film solar company.

References

  1. ^ German WSJ[dead link‍]
  2. ^ eGroups
  3. ^ Mark Pincus
  4. ^ Marshall, Matt (15 August 2004). "SJMN San Jose Mercury News". Nanosolar.com. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  5. ^ "Nanosolar Blog". Nanosolar.com. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  6. ^ Lashinsky, Adam (11 April 2007). "Fortune on John Doerr and Martin Roscheisen in greentech". Rmartinr.com. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  7. ^ "Earth2Tech". Gigaom.com. 30 July 2007. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  8. ^ Jay Yarow (24 January 2009). "SJ Merc". Rmartinr.com. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  9. ^ Madrigal, Alexis (9 September 2009). "Wired". Wired. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  10. ^ "Nanosolar outshines the competition". Venturebeat.com. 27 August 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  11. ^ "EDN". Rmartinr.com. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  12. ^ Uldrich, Jack (15 December 2006). "Motley Fool's". Rmartinr.com. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  13. ^ Gangemi, Jeffrey (20 June 2006). "Business Week". Rmartinr.com. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  14. ^ "USA Today". Rmartinr.com. 26 April 2004. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  15. ^ "Popular Science Magazine". Popsci.com. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  16. ^ "TIME Awards". Rmartinr.com. 8 April 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  17. ^ "World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award". Greenvc.org. 1 September 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  18. ^ "r. martin roscheisen". Rmartinr.com. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  19. ^ "Patents".
  20. ^ "Chinese billboard sparks speculation". guenterporfolio.com.
  21. ^ Boorstin, Julia; Watson, Noshua (15 September 2003). "Fortune Magazine via CNN". CNN. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  22. ^ "WEF". Greenvc.org. 1 September 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  23. ^ "TIME Magazine". Rmartinr.com. 8 April 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2011.

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