Angeles Energy

Art Buckland

Art Buckland has worked in the energy and cleantech spaces for many years. He led some of the first developments of Smart Meters in the 1980s, working with a diverse array of international water and electricity utility companies. In 1996, he received “Entrepreneur of the Year” awards (from NASDAQ, Ernst & Young, Sprint, USA Today, and others) for his work with CP Clare, where a critical component for Smart Meters was developed. Recently, in his two years at Soliant Energy, Art pioneered the development of a strategic vision for the next generation of solar panels that could generate distributed electricity at utility costs without government subsidies.

Art brings broad experience in operations and governance to Angeles Energy. His industry experience spans traditional and renewable/solar energy companies (Schlumberger, Enertec, Solartron and Soliant), advanced semiconductors (CP Clare, Texas Instruments, Engim, and Fairchild), supply chain and value-added distribution (Lex, Indivers, and Richardson Electronics), and capital equipment (Teradyne, Fairchild Test, Applicon, and FourPi). He has held CEO, CFO and Board chairman roles in startups as well as NASDAQ, NYSE and LSE companies. His leadership has resulted in corporate turnarounds, hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue growth, billion-dollar increases in book value, IPOs and LBOs. He has raised $175M in private and public capital while starting nine companies, completed 36 M&A transactions worth over $1.45 billion, and turned around seven other companies.

Art is a “Financial Expert” as defined by SEC regulations, has worked in seven countries, and speaks five languages. He has a BSEE and a Harvard MBA. He is a member of NACD, IEEE, ICD, FCD and IERG, with US and Canadian citizenships.

Doug Caldwell

Doug is pursuing cost-effective means for reducing net anthropogenic carbon emissions without creating further adverse side-effects. Applying his background of multi-disciplinary systems engineering and entrepreneurship, he is exploring technologies and business approaches that can substantially increase the adoption rate of sustainable energy solutions – primarily in the areas of solar power generation, smart grid, and building energy efficiency.

Since 2007, Doug has been chief program engineer for Boeing's utility-scale concentrating photovoltaic solar power product development under DOE’s Solar Energy Technologies Program, coordinating technical and business activities, and chief architect for Boeing’s Renewable Energy Solutions group.

Ecliptic RocketCam Captures Shuttle Discovery Shedding Foam from its External Tank

Doug was co-founder, CTO, and VP of Engineering of Ecliptic Enterprises, which has become synonymous with its RocketCam products that provide real-time launch video for the space industry.