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Management Team
President & CEO
John Conklin brings SolarWindow Technologies, Inc. 30 years of industrial, commercial, and renewable and alternative energy experience, providing technical and business consulting services to more than 50 technology, manufacturing, and industrial process companies. Mr. Conklin’s client-companies have ranged from start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations, including IBM, Lockheed Martin, Frito-Lay, and TDI Power, Inc., a global manufacturer of power systems.
Throughout Mr. Conklin’s career, he has actively managed both the technical and business requirements of various energy and industrial companies. In additional to technical oversight, Mr. Conklin has overseen financial management and accounting; strategic planning; product prototyping, development and distribution; productivity and profitability analyses; inventory and cost controls; and team recruitment and management.
John’s specific experience with designing solar photovoltaic and thermal energy systems is a particular asset to Company as its SolarWindow™ technology, capable of generating electricity on see-thru glass windows, advances from prototype to commercialization.
Mr. Conklin also has expertise with creating financial contracts which allow for economically viable, commercial installation of solar systems. These ‘Solar Power Purchase Agreements’ or ‘SPPAs’ are designed after careful technical and economic feasibility studies have been conducted by the agreement’s architect.
John also brings industrial process, environmental systems design, testing, and analytical experience, which has resulted in cost savings ranging from 10-25% for numerous clients in the surface coatings industry. Surface coatings are key to the development of SolarWindow™, which makes use of special coatings which allow for the generation and movement of electricity on see-thru glass.
Mr. Conklin has additional chemical surface coating experience important in the application of various coatings used in the Company’s SolarWindow™ technology. These novel coatings require technically advanced methods of application onto glass in order to retain their unique capacity to generate electricity while ensuring their proper adhesion to the glass surface.
John developed similar surface coating techniques used in the fabrication of the United States Stealth Battleship prototype during his tenure at Excel Precision, Inc. These coatings were used to create frequency selective antennas, able to absorb radar signals and prevent satellite detection of the Stealth Battleship from space. At Excel Precision, Inc., Mr. Conklin developed and managed a program management team comprised of engineering, product development, quality control, and business development personnel that provided the development of these prototypes.
Mr. John A. Conklin is founder and Vice President, National Solar Systems, LLC., a New York based renewable and alternative energy design and installation firm. He also founded and serves as President of Tellurium Associates, LLC., an industrial process design and operations company.
Mr. Conklin holds a NABCEP (North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners) Level I Certificate, globally-recognized as North America’s “gold standard” agency for PV and solar thermal installation certification. He routinely attends NABCEP certified training programs throughout the Northeastern United States.
Among John’s interests is his continuing education in photovoltaic systems design, installation and operations at the University of Central Florida, Florida Solar Energy Center, and the State University of New York at Ulster, a noted leader in renewable energy certification and education. He has also studied chemical technology, chemical engineering, and various industrial, safety, and renewable energy programs.
Mr. Conklin is a Certified Football Official and a licensed private pilot.
Principal Scientist
Dr. Hammond is Principal Scientist at SolarWindow Technologies, Inc., leading development of SolarWindow™ systems. Dr. Hammond brings extensive experience with all areas of Organic Photovoltaics (OPV), including: the design and synthesis of small molecule and polymeric donor materials, the development of new solution-processed contact materials, the fabrication of laboratory-scale OPV devices, large-area device fabrication using slot-die coating, and the development of solution-processed flexible and transparent moisture barriers.
Dr. Hammond also has a strong background in nanostructured organic materials, with an emphasis on optoelectronic materials. His experience spans materials design, synthesis, nanoscale characterization, processing, and optoelectronic device fabrication. He has over 30 publications and presentations, a book chapter, and one U.S. patent application.
Dr. Hammond earned his B.S. in Chemistry with High Honors from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001, and his Ph.D. in Organic/Materials Chemistry and Nanotechnology from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2007. His awards include a Hypercube Scholar Award, a Mindlin Brothers Fellowship for Creativity in Science, a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention, and a Joint Institute in Nanotechnology Fellowship. He is currently a member of the American Chemical Society and the Materials Research Society, and a Sigma-Aldrich Global Advisor.
VP of Energy Markets and Utilities
Curtis Watkins is an experienced energy and IT professional helping drive innovative technology solutions in the regulated utility and municipality code enforcement industries. His background ranges from working with the nation’s largest utility to helping build a high-tech startup out of a living room. He also enjoys giving his experiences back to the community through government/community service and in 2011 created a non-profit aimed at helping emerging energy companies.
In his role at Duke Energy, Curtis currently works in the Emerging Technology Office where he is responsible for testing and verifying new technologies that have the potential to become part of a new emerging energy portfolio of solutions. This can range from technology deemed to be “Behind The Meter” (e.g. inside a customer home) to Grid Tech (e.g. T&D communication devices) to Distributed Energy Resources (e.g. microgrids). Prior to his joining the Emerging Technology Office in 2010, Curtis worked in the IT area developing secure solutions to allow 3rd party vendors access to sensitive, internal data.
Prior to joining Duke Energy in 2007, Curtis was the second person to join a startup company that grew through venture-backed funding to almost 30 employees and received a successful exit in 2007. The company, MobileHWY, focused on mobile technology solutions aimed at improving municipality process and procedures for code enforcement operations.
In 2011, Curtis started the energy incubator program CLT Joules as a way to combine his passion for energy technology and entrepreneurism. Through his leadership, the CLT Joules program has raised significant corporate sponsorships to fund the operations and taken in 9 energy companies as part of the program, donating professional service work to energy innovators and small businesses to further their development. CLT Joules was noted by then Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers as “one of the top 3 energy developments in Charlotte” in 2012.
In the community, Curtis has been appointed to the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center Board of Trustees (NC House Speaker Appointee), served as a Commissioner of Air Quality (Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners Appointee), and served as a Commissioner for the Historic District (City of Charlotte Mayoral Appointee). In 2010 he was nominated and added to the Charlotte Chamber Young Professionals Board, a group which he Chaired from 2013 – 2014. In the energy sector, he serves on the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Energy and Infrastructure Production Center (EPIC) Implementation Committee as well as on the Emerging Technologies Coordinating Council (ETCC) Advisory Council.
For his efforts, Curtis was named by the Charlotte Business Journal to the top ‘Forty Under Forty’ for 2013 and was the Young Professionals in Energy ‘Person of the Year’ for the Charlotte chapter in 2011. He is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University where he earned a B.S. in Business Administration in 2001 and is married to Vatsla Watkins, with whom they have a daughter.
VP of Product Development and Engineering
Mr. Patrick T. Sargent has nearly two decades of high tech product design and development experience, launching his career as a Mechanical Engineering (ME) Consultant for an Atlanta based consulting firm. Following his ME tenure Patrick worked at Lucent Technologies and Fujitsu Network Communications where he designed fiber optical packet networks for trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific telephony network carriers.
In the solar-glass industry, Mr. Sargent joined Asahi Glass Company (AGC), a global glass leader reporting nearly $16 billion in 2010 sales. At AGC’s Flat Glass business division he was appointed Photovoltaics Cover Technology Leader for the North American Solar Business Unit, eventually assuming leadership for Market Intelligence & Governmental Relations at AGC Solar North America. As Director of Solar Market Intelligence for Asahi’s Solar Business Unit, he’s credited with the award of millions of dollars in grants, and for successfully performing predictive intelligence which correctly forecast market behavior prior to its realization.
Currently, Mr. Sargent is President and CEO of Corona Solar Group, LLC. Corona Solar Group is a solar engineering, procurement, and installation company with focus on Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina markets. As President and CEO, Patrick designs, and oversees the development and on-site installation of distributed solar generation facilities throughout the Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina markets. Once commercialized, this particular experience is important to the interconnection of SolarWindow™ to the electrical connections in commercial buildings.
A degreed mechanical engineer, Mr. Patrick T. Sargent earned his Mechanical and Industrial Engineering undergraduate degrees from Georgia Tech University and subsequently his MBA at Kennesaw State University. He is a charter member and board member of the Tennessee chapter of SEIA and a member of GSEA and GANA, where he often entertains speaking engagements. He holds certifications with Six Sigma and NABCEP.
Manager of Business Operations & Communications
Ms. Briana Erickson has over 10 years of administrative experience with accounting, communications, and customer service. She worked for a group of start-up companies in Shareholder Communications for two years, providing services in Communications and Investor Relations to companies developing medical devices, pharmaceuticals and vaccines, biofuels, and oil & gas development, prior to joining SolarWindow Technologies, Inc. full time as Manager of Business Operations and Communications in 2011. Ms. Erickson has a strong background in writing and editing, preparing and distributing Company press releases, presentations, marketing materials, and website development. She also provides research assistance and manages general operations of the Company and vendor accounts, as well as communications and project management.
Ms. Erickson earned her B.A. from Grand Valley State University in 2005, graduating Cum Laude as part of the GVSU Honors College. She was awarded with Recognition for Academic Excellence and a Presidential Scholarship, as well as Outstanding Student and inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, a Collegiate Honors Society.
