Ravi Balaji

Vice President, Cell Operations Ravi Balaji joined Nanosolar in October 2010 as VP of Cell Operations. From 2006 to 2010, Ravi held various senior management positions at Solyndra, lastly as senior director of Operations at Solyndra’s Fab-1, where Ravi was instrumental in ramping up the factory to a production rate of 16 MW/qtr. From 2003 to 2006, he served as director of Program Management at MMC Technology (a division of Maxtor Corp), a manufacturer of disks for the disk drive industry. From 1988 to 2003, Ravi held various process engineering roles in the disk drive- and telecom component industries. Ravi holds a master’s degree in Materials Science from The University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor’s degree in Metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai, India.