_John Bowers, Founder of Unite to Light and a Chair of its Board of Directors, is the Director for the Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) at the University of California Santa Barbara, head of the IEE’s Electronics & Photonics Solutions Group, and holds the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology. After earning his Ph.D. at Stanford University, Dr. Bowers worked at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories and Honeywell before joining the UCSB faculty in 1987. A recipient of the IEEE LEOS William Streifer Award and the South Coast Business and Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Dr. Bowers is an elected member of the IEEE LEOS Board of Governors, a LEOS Distinguished Lecturer, and Vice President for Conferences for LEOS. He has published eight book chapters, 450 journal papers, 700 conference papers and has received 52 patents. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He and coworkers received the ACE Award for Most Promising Technology for the hybrid silicon laser in 2007.

Claude Dorais, President of Unite to Light and a member of its Board of Directors, is an attorney with Dorais, McFarland, Grattan & Polinsky, Law Corp., in Santa Barbara. He received his JD in 1974 from the University of California at Davis. As an attorney, Mr. Dorais’ areas of practice encompass insurance regulatory and business law, risk management, and estate planning. He has practiced before the insurance regulatory agencies of 51 U.S. jurisdictions (50 states and the District of Columbia) and is a long-time member of the Federation of Regulatory Counsel. He is also the former co-chair of the Estate Planning Section of the Santa Barbara County Bar Association.