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 15 years of experience in engineering and engineering management. He started his career at the Indian Institute of Science where he worked on a team developing an alternative energy gasification system. He was an early engineer at Cerent where he was responsible for the development of the optical 2.5Gig interface for the Cerent-454 ADM. Cerent was subsequently acquired by Cisco for $7 Billion. At Cisco, Raghu was managing the team developing the 10Gig interface products for the ONS-15454. He co-founded Enphase Energy Inc. with Mr. Fornage in March of 2006. Raghu has a MSEE from Texas A&M University.

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.

Andrew Nichols - Vice President of 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.