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A technical entrepreneur for over 20 years, Asif Ansari has founded over a dozen successful companies in aerospace, alternative transportation, engineering & manufacturing, and global retail. He has led the development & commercialization of over 20 technical products in the clean tech and aerospace markets, including a solar desalination micro-turbine generator. Mr. Ansari founded Omni Systems, where he led the design of NASA's Lunar Prospector Spacecraft, a lunar resource mapping mission that was successfully launched in 1998. He is a strong and long-term proponent of solar energy. Most recently, he spent three years as the EVP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Energy Innovations, where he led the engineering development of a heliostat-based concentrated PV product. He has a wide ranging engineering and research background with several landmark publications in the field of heat transfer. He holds a BSME and an MSME from the University of Minnesota. | 