Asif Ansari

A technical entrepreneur for over 20 years, Asif Ansari has founded over a dozen successful companies in aerospace, alternative transportation, engineering and manufacturing, and global retail. He has led the development and 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. Mr. Ansari holds a BSME and an MSME from the University of Minnesota.