The Team
Meet New Sun Road
PhD University of California Berkeley - Energy and Resources | Founding Director, California - Renewable and Adaptive Energy (CAL-RAE) | UC-Berkeley Research Associate & Lecturer (Energy access and economics) | Founding Director, Vietnam Green Building Council.
Jalel Sager
Co-Founder | Board Chair
MBA Thunderbird School of Global Management | B.S. Chemical Engineering, Lafayette College.| Head of Product Management, Iron Ridge | Program Director, REDI Project, SunEdison | Peace Corps Volunteer, Gabon, Africa | Board of Directors, Green Empowerment
Adrienne Pierce
Chief Executive Officer
MBA Presidio Graduate School - in Sustainable Management | BA Stanford University - Science, Technology, and Society | Advisor, NeuAxiom LLC.
Shivani Ganguly
Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operating Officer
PhD Stanford - Engineering Economic Systems | Sr. Director for Africa Initiatives, Microsoft | Managing Director, Samzam Consulting, Tanzania | Chief Solutions Architect, Rapt, Inc., acquired by Microsoft in 2008
Michael Goldbach
Chief Product Officer
Ph.D. Universidad de Castilla La Mancha – Nanotechnology | Affiliate Professor, Universidad de San Carlos la Guatemala | Visiting Researcher, University of California Berkeley.
Susana Arrechea
Global Programs Director
BS University of California Berkeley- Environmental Science | Co-founder, CAL-RAE, UC Berkeley | UC Berkeley & Cisco Net. Academy
Austin Cappon
Co-founder | VP of IoT Engineering in Engineering
BS, University of California Berkeley – Physics | Lab Assistant at Ramesh Labs, UC Berkeley
Nathan Carrizales
Applications Engineer
BS University of California Berkeley - Energy Engineering
Jose De Casas
Senior Applications Engineer
Advanced Energy Systems certified, ITIL 4 certified, CIS certified, Associates in Early Childhood Education and Family Studies from Portland Community College
Ileana ‘Lee’ Salazar Chavez
Project Management Intern
PhD University of California Berkeley - Energy and Resources | Developer, Energy PATHWAYS modeling software Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) | Lead developer for Griddle power system simulation | Business analyst, EnerNOC
Michael Cohen
Director, Software Engineering
University of San Francisco | Co-founder, Ergomek | Mechanical Technician, Intelergy
Alan Engbrecht
Production Manager and Mechanical Design Lead, Stellar IS™
BS University of Michigan - Computer Science
Sophia Haoui
Software Engineer
BS University of California San Diego - Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy | Fellow in Humanitarian Engineering - Global Ties | Campus Representative – Clinton Global Initiative, UCSD
Lin Thu Hein
Senior Applications Engineer
PhD in Energy and Resources and MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley
Jonathan Lee
Co-founder | Director of Research
MS Materials Science & Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute | BS Mechanical Engineering, Union College | Corporate VC, Strategic Marketing, Business Development, R&D, Saint-Gobain | Board of Directors, Women in Cleantech & Sustainability
Robin Milshtein
Director, Business Development
BA, University of California Berkeley – Environmental Earth Science
Tyner Pesch
Software Engineer
BA in Physics at UC Berkeley
Jose Saavedra
Operations Specialist
Fourth year Data Science and Industrial Engineering & Operations Research student at UC Berkeley.
Maya Sprouse
Data Science Intern
B.A. marketing candidate Western Governor's University
Araya Turner
Marketing Intern
MFA School of Visual Arts - Photography, Video & Related Media. BA University of California Berkeley - Documentary Photography & American Identity.
Ian Umeda
Designer
MS, BS University of California Berkeley - Mechanical Engineering
Daniel Wehara
Applications Engineer
MA John Hopkins | International Relations and Economics Microgrid Data Standards Microgrid Market Research Hardware R+D
Fujia Zhang
Production Analyst
Team Guatemala
M.Sc. in urban management from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Architect graduated from the University of San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC).
Alejandro Alvarado
Guatemala Country Manager
Vocational and labor guidance technician, home education teacher. Closed curriculum in the degree in psychology from the University of San Carlos de Guatemala.
Edna Cao
Trainer and Pedagogical Advisor
Professor of applied sociolinguistics, teacher of bilingual intercultural education and tenth semester student of the Bachelor's Degree in Applied Sociolinguistics at the Mariano Gálvez University of Guatemala.
Edna Figueroa
Q’eqchi’ Trainer and Interpreter
Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of San Carlos de Guatemala.
Karen Avila Maldonado
Project Assistant
Expert accountant and eighth-semester student of information systems engineering at Mariano Gálvez University.
Yadira Morales
IT Technician
Join our Growing Team
Are you ambitious, hard-working and full of innovative ideas? If this is you, New Sun Road provides a range of opportunities to work on exciting and challenging projects in an inspiring workplace.