Dr Michelle McCann
Interim CEO & Technology Director Michelle has ten years experience in photovoltaics. She graduated with a PhD from the Australian National University and was then group leader of the Photovoltaics Novel Devices Group at the University of Konstanz (UKON) in Germany. She, and co-workers from UKON, achieved a world record for making the highest efficiency large-area multicrystalline solar cell.

Nick Fejer
Procurement and Quality Manager
Nick steps into Spark as an expert in manufacturing and new product introduction. His previous positions include Manager of Project Management and Business Development at Siemens VDO Australia and Project Managemer at Robert Bosch. His history is in the delivery of tight timeline projects, large business acquisitions and product life cycle knowledge, from development right through to customer management.

Dr Alexander Hauser
Production Manager
Alex obtained his PhD from the University of Konstanz and was then the leader of the Industrial Solar Cell group. Together with co-workers, he developed the isotexturing process for multi-crystalline silicon, now used in dozens of solar cell production lines around the world. He comes to Spark from centrotherm photovoltaics, where he was responsible for process integration in turn-key projects for lines in Europe, America and Asia.

Dr Evan Franklin
Senior Scientist
Evan is a research and development engineer specializing in device design and fabrication for silicon solar cells. He has valuable expertise in modelling, design, manufacturing and characterisation of silicon solar cells. Evan completed his PhD in 2006 on the development of the sliver manufacturing technology, where he optimised this complex processing sequence to achieve record cell efficiencies (greater than 20%) for sliver solar cells.