magnolia solar corp (MGLT:OTC BB)

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Dr. Ashok K. Sood serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Magnolia Solar Corporation. Dr. Sood served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mobilis Relocation Services, Inc. Dr. Sood has over 30 years of experience with Solar Cells and Optical Devices for DoD. He is a 30-year industry veteran with experience that includes developing and managing solar cells, optical, and optoelectronics technology products for several major corporations, including Lockheed-Martin, ... BAE Systems, Loral, Honeywell, and Tyco International. Dr. Sood was instrumental in development and managed optical and optoelectronics technology for these companies as a manager in the optoelectronics group and worked to develop ribbon silicon solar cells, CdTe, CdS and HgCdTe, GaN/AlGaN, ZnO semiconductor devices. Dr. Sood was involved in design and development of solar cells at Mobil-Tyco Solar Energy Corporation now under the management of RWE-Schott Solar. He contributed to design and development of Silicon Ribbon solar cells and was instrumental in design improvements to enhance the solar cell efficiency of EFG ribbon solar cells. Dr. Sood was also Senior Engineer at Tyco Laboratories, Inc., (Now Tyco International) where he built and set up optical and electronic measurement facilities for silicon p-n junction solar cells and developed processes for building high efficiency solar cells for space applications. Dr. Sood has also led the development of optoelectronics and imaging devices using CdTe, HgCdTe, GaN and ZnO for various defense applications, including EO, IR and UV imaging, secure communications, and self-protection applications. Dr. Sood has led the efforts resulting in DARPA sponsorship of several Magnolia projects. He has also led various industry and University teams bridging centers of excellence for material sciences across the United States. He serves as Director of Magnolia Solar Corporation. Dr. Sood received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and has an M.S. and a B.S. in Physics (Honors) from Delhi University in India. At the University of Pennsylvania, he was part of the Optical/Semiconductor Materials technology group, where he attended Physics courses given by two Nobel Laureates. His Ph.D. dissertation was on the study of optoelectronic properties of PbS/CdS for detector and laser applications in the visible to near infrared spectral bands. Dr. Sood has also taken several management courses and also attended professional development programs organized by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Sood is a member of IEEE and the SPIE. He has chaired sessions on optical and nanotechnology at conferences of those organizations. He has also been on several expert panels for future direction of Thin Film Solar Cells.

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