About Lunar Energy: what we do and how we got here.
Lunar's story
We’ve seen the effects of climate change across the globe, and we believe that we can change our future—starting right at home.
Lunar was founded to power homes around the world with endless clean energy.
Just as the moon gets its glow from the sun, Lunar takes the sun’s energy and converts it into consistent, convenient, cost-effective clean energy that we all can count on 24 hours a day, day after day.
Our team
The Lunar team is made up of savvy entrepreneurs as well as passionate technology and industry experts, bringing years of experience to a young company. Meet some of our team members.
Kunal Girotra
Kunal is Founder and CEO of Lunar Energy. He has 20 years of experience as an engineer, technology leader and entrepreneur.
He holds a Masters in Chemical Engineering from Stanford and began his career scaling hardware technologies from lab to production for both fortune 500 companies and startups in consumer electronics and cleantech. He joined Tesla Energy in 2015 where he held several leadership positions in product, deployment and operations and was head of Tesla Energy until March 2020.
Kunal founded Lunar in August 2020 with a mission to power homes around the world with endless clean energy.
Mark Holveck
Mark leads the technical vision behind Lunar’s products.
He has a long history of delivering electrification technologies and holding R&D leadership roles at several companies, including recent roles at Tesla and Lyft. Mark also co-founded Princeton Power Systems, developing the first AC-coupled solar battery microgrid still powering Alcatraz today.
Outside work Mark loves to invent and build things and have fun with his family.
Chris Wright
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Chris leads Software Product development at Lunar, leading software engineering, product and R&D teams focused on the Gridshare software platform and Lunar's apps.
Prior to Lunar, Chris co-founded Moixa where he led hardware and software development. Since 2010, Chris has been leading energy R&D projects, developing smart battery systems, sensors, software controls and platforms.
He holds a Masters of Arts in Architecture from Cambridge University.
Grace Hsu
Grace oversees the company’s legal and human resources departments and is Lunar's corporate secretary.
Before joining Lunar Energy, Grace was in-house counsel at Clearway Energy Group and an associate at the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati.
Grace holds a BS in chemical engineering and an MS in environmental engineering from Stanford and a JD from Berkeley Law.
Rishi Simha
Rishi leads Lunar's finance and accounting teams and is the company's corporate treasurer.
He has dedicated his entire career to working at the intersection of finance, advanced manufacturing, and energy.
Rishi's stops on the "solar coaster" have included corporate finance at SolarCity and engineering finance for Tesla's energy products. Rishi holds a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Ed Gunn
Ed is running the end to end "commercial engine" and bringing Lunar’s mission to life via business development, client management and delivery.
Prior to Lunar, Ed held multiple commercial and operational roles at Moixa which he joined in 2016 coming from a venture capital background.
He holds masters in Geography, Cambridge University with specialization in resource economics and geo-politics.