Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> December 15, 2008
BARRY CINNAMON, Chief Executive Officer of Akeena Solar, Inc., is a long-time
advocate of solar power and is a widely recognized solar power expert. Mr.
Cinnamon started his career in solar energy in the late 1970s as a researcher
into new flat plate and concentrating collector designs at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT). During the late 1970s and early 1980s, he
designed and installed active solar, passive solar and ground coupled heat pump
systems. Mr. Cinnamon's work in solar power computer modeling led him into the
software industry, where he served as CEO of Soft Software Publishing
Corporation, and founded Allegro New Media, a multimedia software publisher,
which he led to an IPO in 1995. Mr. Cinnamon earned a BS Degree in Mechanical
Engineering from MIT and an MBA degree in Marketing from Wharton. He is a NABCEP
Certified Solar Installer, a licensed California C-46 Solar Contractor, an
active member of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and a member of the Board
of Directors of the National Solar Energy Industries Association and California
Solar Energy Industry Association. Profile
the company as it is now?
Mr. Cinnamon: Akeena Solar is one of those companies that started in a garage
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