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Sam Weaver is President, CEO and a co-founder of Cool Energy, Inc., a power conversion equipment company located in Boulder, CO. The main applications of Cool Energy’s products are waste heat recovery, solar power, and biomass power, and the scale of the equipment is intended for on-site and remote power generation. Sam also sits on the Board of Directors of Proton Power, Inc, a biomass power and fuels company. He is a member of the City of Boulder Planning Board and sits on the Boards of the Colorado Clean Energy Development Authority and Clean Energy Action. As well as previously serving on the Board of the Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association, Sam is actively involved in the Colorado technology and business communities, having previously co-founded one other Colorado-based company. Prior to his time as an entrepreneur and involvement in start-up businesses, Sam worked for ten years as a professional researcher in the electrical engineering department at CU-Boulder. Sam previously served his community as a volunteer fire chief and Boulder County advisory board member. He holds a B.S. degree in engineering and applied science from the California Institute of Technology and is an inventor named on seventeen issued U.S. patents.