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Hubert Aulich
Country: Germany
Year joined industry: 1974
Company first worked for: Siemens Central Research Laboratories
Technology area: PV
Still active in the industry:

Dr Aulich joined the Central Research Laboratories of Siemens AG in Munich, Germany, in 1974 where he
worked in various positions in the field of optical fibre communication and photovoltaics. From 1988 to 1991 he
was managing director at PV Electric, a joint venture of Siemens Solar GmbH, Germany, and Arco Solar, USA,
where he was responsible for the commercialisation of amorphous silicon thin film technology. In 1992 he became
managing director at Siemens Solar GmbH where he was responsible for technology of thin film and crystalline
silicon solar cells. He was senior vice president for technology and research for the Siemens Solar Group responsible
for research and development in thin film and crystalline silicon solar cells as well as for systems application for
Germany, USA and Japan. In 1997 he founded PV Silicon GmbH with his partner Dr Friedrich Wilhelm Schulze.
In 2002 PV Silicon merged with Crystalox to PV Crystalox Solar GmbH and he became a member of the Board.
At PV Crystalox he had responsibility for the German operations including the production and sales of wafers and
was appointed as a director of the Company in 2007. In 2008 he became chairman of the five-year long project
SolarValley Mitteldeutschland which involves 35 companies, five universities and nine research institutes working
on the entire crystalline silicon value chain with the aim of reducing the cost of solar electricity to below that of
conventional power. In 2014 he was founder and president of SC Sustainable Concepts GmbH which provided
solar powered water purifiers for developing cojntries. In 2018 he found PVWater International Ltd. in Nigeria, a
joint venture between SC Sustainable Concepts and KXN Nigeria.

Teun Bokhoven
Country: Netherlands
Year joined industry: 1979
Company first worked for: Solair Systems
Technology area: PV
Still active in the industry: Yes

Teun Bokhoven graduated in 1977 from UTS Utrecht as a civil engineer. In 1979 he started his own company
Solair Systems, and subsequently merged the company to become ZEN. In 1983 he was one of the founders of
the Dutch association Holland Solar. Since that time, he has been active in the national and international trade
associations. In 1995 he managed to get the solar thermal industry to sign a long term agreement with the Dutch
government to stimulate the market. Currently director of ConSolair Ltd. From 2001 - Chairman of the NVDE (Dutch
Renewable Energy Association) - an umbrella organisation of all Dutch Renewable Energy associations (wind,
solar, bio-energy, geothermal and energy storage, heat pumps and water-energy) and companies - united over
the entire supply chain. The main objective of the NVDE is to create a robust and active energy transition where
all renewable options will develop strongly in order to transfer our energy system with urgency towards a 100%
renewable energy system. Since 2012, Teun has been heading the board of the Top Consortium for Knowledge and
Innovation. TKI0 is a public-private-partnership which aims to boost the innovation process for energy saving and
renewables, in particular solar energy in the built environment and incorporates this in a smart energy system. TKI
Urban Energy focuses on break-through innovations which will have a significant contribution to energy reduction
as well as strengthening the position of the Dutch industry and knowledge sector.

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