Arvind Chari

Arvind Chari is a senior manager of operations at Plenty managing the state of the art, high volume, Tigris farm. Prior to joining Plenty, Arvind was on the founding team at Merlin Solar Technologies, a small startup working to create efficient, flexible solar modules i.e. Crystalline Solar on Fabric. In this role, Arvind prototyped the initial pilot line used to prove out the product concept, and over time, the company scaled up operations and Arvind worked towards commissioning and ramping the company’s factory in Thailand.

Arvind received a double major from UC Berkeley in EECS and Materials Science, as well as a masters in Materials Science from MIT.