As CEO since April of 2009 Robert Rubin has focused on positioning STF as a supplier of low cost solutions for photovoltaic manufacturing and modules including both thin film  and poly-crystalline offerings both through organic growth and acquisition. His primary focus is on acquisitions and financial structuring, as well as providing necessary support to operational teams within STF and its subsidiaries.

Mr. Robert Rubin has been a successful entrepreneur and financier for growth stage companies. As Board member and interim Chief Financial Officer of Solar Thin Films from 2006 to 2009, Mr. Rubin was actively involved in arranging requisite financing and defining corporate strategy. Over his career Bob has owned, operated and financed numerous companies including first his NYSE listed company, Lifetime Corporation, co-founded by Mr. Rubin and acquired by Olsten in 1993 for $1,000,000,000.

Since then he has been involved in dozens of financings including: the IPO of Metro Media Fiber Optics, which reached a market capitalization of $20 Billion and was the largest NASDAQ percentage gainer for three straight years; a $60,000,000 financing for Eclipse Surgical through Paine Webber; a reverse merger with Software Tool Works, which grew sales to $180,000,000 and was subsequently sold for $750,000,000 to Pierson; Stat Healthcare, sold to Laidlaw for $400,000,000; and the IPO of Orthopedic Technology, later sold for $300,000,000.

As Vice President and Corporate Counsel for STF since August of 2009 Gary Maitland has had primary responsibility for all corporate legal and administrative matters, but his involvement in the business has and will continue to extend from negotiating strategic relationships to restructuring corporate debt to coordinating the filing of company statements. Mr. Maitland has also been a Board member since October 2008 and has played an important role in formalizing corporate governance procedures for the company.

Mr. Maitland has a diverse background as a prosecutor and litigator in criminal, labor, civil rights, and complex corporate and commercial cases. In addition to extensive courtroom experience, Mr. Maitland has handled countless arbitrations in both private and public sector employment as well as in commercial and securities matters. He has served as a board member and legal advisor to charitable organizations, as an officer and legal counsel to condominium associations and as counsel to numerous employee benefit funds. Mr. Maitland has also served on the advisory board of a major financial firm’s pension investment monitoring division. His extensive background as a decision maker, legal advisor and litigator have enabled him to become a skilled negotiator and a creative problem solver.

After gaining several years experience selling machinery and equipment, principally to the plastic injection molding industry, while in school, Mr. Maitland began his legal career as an assistant district attorney in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, NY. He is a lifetime member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and for over 25 years has served as the supervising attorney for a large public sector union’s criminal defense program, participating in and overseeing thousands of cases.

Mr. Maitland received his B.A. in political science from Vassar College and his law degree from Boston University. He received further training through the National Criminal Defense College, a premier program for experienced criminal defense attorneys. He has taught at the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program at Cardozo Law School for nearly 25 years.

As Vice President of Business Development for Kraft Electronics, Dr. Stamenic has responsibility for leading Kraft’s effort to supply turnkey systems to investors and entrepreneurs interested in entering the rapidly growing photovoltaic field. Past successes include sales to CG Solar for a 2.5 MW line in Weihai, China and the first Kraft "turnkey" system sale to Grupo Unisolar for a 6MW line in Bejar, Spain. Dr. Stamenic plays a critical role in the company’s focus on "turnkey" sales by utilizing his experience in both applied research and photovoltaic related business development to bridge the gap between company’s technical and business offerings.

Dr Stamenic is an internationally recognized professional engineer with more than eighteen years of engineering, research, academic, consulting and management experience in all aspects of photovoltaics. He is highly proficient in people and project management, and has been a research and project leader for various technology, energy engineering, and renewable energy related projects. He has a successful track record in directing and carrying out a broad range of photovoltaic projects, taking responsibility as well for funding and project management, including R&D related activities for both academia and industry.

Dr Stamenic also brings extensive proficiency and applied research expertise in photovoltaic manufacturing, for both crystalline silicon and thin film module production. In addition he has specific solar photovoltaic and electrical engineering expertise in the area of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV); he has been responsible for the design, engineering and multidisciplinary consulting for numerous BIPV projects internationally.

Dr Stamenic has published more then fifty scientific papers and numerous photovoltaic related books and is a frequent lecturer delivering speeches and training programs internationally. He is also the past President of the Canadian Solar Industries Association (CanSIA). Dr Stamenic is a member of various professional organizations, as well as PV related expert committees, such as International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC) - IEC TC82.

In his capacity as CEO of Solar Thin Films from June 2007 to March of 2009, Mr. Lewis led the effort to reposition STF from a low margin photovoltaic equipment supplier to a high margin "turnkey systems" provider of amorphous silicon photovoltaic manufacturing capacity. This effort was focused on improving both the product offering and the business development activity: product improvements included implementation of a formal quality assurance program and an expansion of the company’s technical expertise sufficient to support the company’s "turnkey" focus; business development improvements focused on introducing financial and marketing expertise into the sales process sufficient to conclude the company’s first "turnkey" sale to Grupo Unisolar and to support the company’s increased pipeline of sales opportunities.  Having successfully led the transition Mr. Lewis stepped down as CEO and since April 2009 has focused primarily on sales.

Peter brings both management and transactions skills to STF gained from over two decades experience with growth stage technology ventures – including Clean Tech and IT companies – in both management and financial consulting capacities.

Mr. Lewis’ prior clean technology experience includes fours years with Chronar Corporation during the late ‘80s – then the world’s leading thin film company – in which he held several management positions including International Marketing Manager; two years as co-founder and EVP of KmX Corporation from 2005 to 2006 – a development stage company with proprietary membrane technology used in the chemical recycling and ethanol industries; and for a brief period in 2007 as consultant to RESI – a research company engaged in the development of CIGS technology. He has also worked with DRI/McGraw-Hill and as Chief Operating Officer of CA Technology – now Agilence – a software firm with applications in digital video and security.

Mr. Lewis’ transaction experience comes from five years as Partner of The Avatar Group, a Boston-based boutique investment-banking firm providing a range of advisory and transaction services to both private and public companies – predominantly technology-based firms. Mr. Lewis holds a B.A. from Columbia College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

As Vice President of Manufacturing, Mr. Kupecz has primary responsibility for the company’s existing product design and manufacturing capabilities in Hungary, as well as its on-going efforts to reduce costs through global procurement. He brings extensive and versatile experience in manufacturing, design, engineering and project management.

Mr. Kupecz has been involved in numerous international engineering and manufacturing ventures. He started his career at Radiotechnic as a development engineer in Budapest, and continued in Denmark and Hungary by working with BRG where he had managed the engineering team that successfully developed a unique micromotor with gearbox for Danish company LEGO. When the LEGO Group sold its joint venture company LMM Kft. to a German motor factory – Faulhaber Motors – Mr. Kupecz continued a successful career managing the company’s manufacturing division. He also worked for Servo Magnetics Inc. in Los Angeles, where he worked on special brush-less DC motor development.

Mr. Kupecz is an established manufacturing expert with high level of creativity, organizational skills and structured way of thinking, which helps him to successfully coordinate and manage STF manufacturing division.