SLTZ Exec Team and Board Member:
Robert Rubin - CEO
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.
Boris Goldstein - Board Member
Dr. Boris Goldstein is a seasoned entrepreneur, venture capitalist and investment banker. Dr. Goldstein started his career in 1989 as founder of Software House HT, a startup technology company, which he developed into a worldwide corporation with over 40 offices in 17 countries. Since then Dr. Goldstein has founded and served on the board of directors and advisory boards of numerous companies in Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley, including Trans Global Ventures Group, Intelligent Video Systems, Visisys Holdings Plc., E-Trade Eurasia, Pacific Petroleum Technologies, E*Forex, Solby, CBSF Capital Management, CBSF International Fund, CBSF, Daldaris, Pacific Venture Fund, and FRB. During this period Dr. Goldstein was involved in dozens of financings totaling over $700 million in consolidated debt/equity/ADR instruments. Dr. Goldstein brings experience in fundamental research, investment and technologies, and is the author of multiple patents and books. Dr. Goldstein received a degree in Applied Mathematics and a Ph. D. in Real Time Systems from Latvian Technical University in 1985 and 1993, respectively.
Sandor Kupecz - VP Manufacturing
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.
