Henry K. Vandermark
Founder and President
Henry brings the hands-on experience of a wide range of solar thermal systems and their integration into building systems. Henry founded SolarWave Energy in 1978. Over the last 30 years, he has been involved in all aspects of the design, installation and service of solar thermal systems – including overseeing site-built and factory-built collectors and systems, and servicing most of the many types of solar hot water systems used in the Northeast. Henry brings the detail analysis of these mechanical system operations from year of installation and systems assessment. He bought his first data-logger back in 1978 and has been looking at sensors ever since. He has taught conference workshops, trade school classes, and programs for teachers. Henry has been honored with the “Cambridge First Day” award given by MIT and the City of Cambridge for his work preserving the environment – and the Distinguished Service Award from the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. He continues to consult on solar thermal designs for building applications.

Mark Richards
Senior VP, Technology Development
Mark built our first monitoring systems from sensors to the website presentation. As designer of the first end-to-end version of SolarWave monitoring technology, Mark continues to oversee development of advancement and new hardware products and functions and create new features with our growing team. He has held positions in electronic labs, field service operations, radio broadcast engineering and manu-facturing. A longtime interest in telemetry and automation merged into a business partnership and led to the formation of SolarWave Energy. Mark brings his depth and breadth of technical experience “to convert the obscure and inaccessible to the tangible and understandable.” As Mark remembers his technical career starting at age 6 when he disassembled a table radio, he helps some of the next generation along by contributing his time each spring to a program where middle-school students learn about solar energy.

Jefferson Goethals
Business Development and Analysis
Jefferson has been a driving force for our business development raising our level of reports and business analytics to a level satisfying planners and third party financing programs. Jefferson has designed modeling and reporting presentations for utilities and other aggregation clients. While raising the level of product analytics, including energy and business value, his ability and skills in systems and financial modeling is as important to SolarWave’s business development as it is to the product itself. His graduate work at Babson focused on developing new tools for alternative energy finance and valuation. Jefferson has been key to leading this team to turn data into information – and leveraging that information for site planners, owners and investors. When commuting he chooses to bike along a bike path to our office, though presently he is also completing some advanced degree work at Babson College.

Solar Wave Energy has and continues to support continuing education. We must continue to learn in order to continue to grow.

Craig Perko
User Interface Programmer
Craig is responsible for corralling dozens of data feeds and hundreds of thousands of data points into an easy-to-use and easy-to-understand interface for the customers. From the graphs to the diagrams and back again, Craig’s job is to give you the tools to see the details when you want them, but not bog you down with them when you don’t. Craig’s experience creating web interfaces for other industries makes him ideal for bringing a much-needed overhaul to how you look at green power.

Mike Drozdick
Software Engineer
As firmware designer and programmer, Mike is responsible for building communication between our hardware devices, which range from temperature, flow, radiation and other power-related sensors and the servers and database that holds information that clients use. Mike is that “man in the middle,” where he connects the data at the sensor level to the database where higher-level calculations can be made. With 20 years in embedded software development, firmware, communication and protocol development, Mike’s solid expertise powers our AEM communications to our web servers. His background and experience covering many protocols, allow Solar Wave to be responsive as standards are being adopted worldwide. His interest in alternative energy brought him to SolarWave.

Margaret Myers
Business Operations
In charge of administration, customer service, vendor relations, and purchasing, Margaret brings 30+ years’ progressive work in alternative energy – from organic agriculture to biodiesel, algal oil, and now, solar energy. She has worked at GreenFuel Technologies, a Harvard-MIT algae company, and World Energy, a leading provider of biofuels. Her very first position was with a nationally known “dirty fuel” company named MAPCO. Margaret’s commitment to leaving the earth a little better than how she found it led her from the oil and coal fields of Mid American Pipeline Company to the natural fuel of SolarWave. She helps to make accounting address the delivery of our mission as well as our bottom line.

Mike Miller
Engineering Technician
Mike oversees product assembly, system testing and customer setup. He reviews all site and sensor setup confirming data is true to its origin. Mike’s expertise in product manufacturing, troubleshooting support, and maintenance enhances the user-friendliness of SolarWave software. His field experience installing our systems has made him essential in upgrading our user guide and support. His interest began as he pursued a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute prior to joining the SolarWave team.

Ken Braun
Chief Hardware Designer
If we specify it, Ken can build it. With a unique background ranging from design and development to manufacturing, Ken brings years of experience building electronic hardware for land, sea, and undersea use. After a successful career as a journeyman tool and die maker, Ken graduated from New Jersey Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. As an electrical engineer, he has designed a bench-top scanning electron microscope; used electron beams to perform failure analysis on microprocessors; designed and constructed a novel non-contact electrical probe; and designed control systems for a remotely operated underwater vehicle. In his work at Solar Wave, Ken is responsible for both electrical design of the Advanced Energy Monitor as well as the mechanical design of its packaging.