Solar power system maker Amonix taps interim CEO
Amonix Inc. had named Silicon Valley venture capital executive Jan van Dokkum its interim chief executive officer following the death of Brian Robertson in a plane crash last month, a company spokesman confirmed Tuesday.
Privately held Seal Beach, Calif.-based Amonix makes solar power systems for commercial use. The company's North Las Vegas plant, which opened in July and employs more than 300 people, is a joint venture with Singapore's Flextronics.
Dokkum is a partner and lead investor with Menlo Park, Calif.-based Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, an investor in Amonix.
Before joining Kleiner Perkins in 2009, van Dokkum spent seven years with South Windsor, Conn.-based UTC Power, a division of United Technologies Corp. He managed UTC Power's generation products and services.
The Amonix board has formed a search committee to find a new chief executive.
Robertson, 38, became Amonix's chief executive in 2009, when the company acquired Sunworks Solar LLC, a solar manufacturing plant developer that he co-founded in 2008. He was killed Dec. 23 when the twin-engine plane he was piloting crashed near York, Pa.
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