Jim Clair President, Skysun, LLC jimclair@skysunsolar.com Education and Training • Master of Arts, Economics, Cleveland State University, 2010 • Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Cleveland State University Employment History President, 2012 – present, Skysun, LLC Direct development of technology, secure intellectual property, promote commercialization of proprietary designs Awards and Honors • Innovation Fund Grant Recipient $25,000, Tensile Ganged Heliostat, 2013 • Primary Author Patents US 8,609,979 9,279,600 • NASA Glenn Research Center, Adopt a City Program, Grant Recipient 2015 • DOE, Small Business Voucher Program/Sandia, Award $275,000 Tensile Based Ganged Heliostat development 2016/2017 • SBIR Phase 1 grant awardee 0001941 12 E Rural Solar $186,000 Tensile Based Tracking PV development 2019/2020 • DOE, Small Business Voucher Program/Sandia, Award $175,000 Sub mrad Active Tracker with Shandiin Optical, Dr. Yellowhair 2021/2022 • Skysun, LLC named a NASA Spin-Off Company, 2023 Publications and Papers CSP Ganged Heliostat Technologies, White Paper, 2015 Clair, Jim; Skysun, LLC Dynamic load mechanical modelling of a 10 MW tensile ganged heliostat prototype AIP Conference Proceedings 2126, 060001 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5117587 Kenneth M. Armijo1,a), Julius Yellowhair1, Jesus D. Ortega1, and Jim Clair2 Optical Performance Modeling and Analysis of a Tensile Ganged Heliostat Concept Yellowhair, Julius; Armijo, Kenneth; Andraka, Charles; Ortega, Jesus; Clair, Jim (2019) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM) Ganged-PV System Evaluation, SANDIA REPORT SAND2021-14893 Aaron Overacker, Dimitri Madden, Kenneth Armijo, and Jim Clair Printed November 2021 Shandiin 2022 Sandia Voucher Final Report, Kenneth M. Armijo, Julius Yellowhair, Jim Clair, Ansel Blumenthal, Aaron Overacker, Luis Garcia-Maldonado and Guillermo Anaya