Mo Rousso

Maurice "Mo" Rousso engineered and installed his first solar energy project in 1975. A true industry veteran, Mr. Rousso founded HelioPower in 2001, a leading solar power integration firm based in California, and served as the company's CEO. Being a serial entrepreneur with the start-up of four companies under his belt, Mo is excited to start-up and grow Helio mU.

Prior to HelioPower, Mr. Rousso was the Chief Utility Strategist for Breakaway Solutions, an international consulting firm, and prepared a market strategy for a consortium of German Utilities and a Fortune 500 energy trading company. Prior to that, he was western region Vice President of EMA Services, an international utility consulting firm that focused on IT and business process engineering. Mo has authored numerous papers on the implementation of IT systems to drive business results. Mr. Rousso also co-authored a book on the use of object-oriented technology to facilitate the engineering of business processes. His IT experience includes customer service and billing systems, financial management systems, automated meter reading systems, GIS, SQL and RDBMS, SCADA, and process control systems.

His engineering and asset management background includes serving as a results, design, and start-up engineer for the Public Service Company of Colorado - designing, constructing and commissioning coal, nuclear, and hydro electric generating facilities, in addition to his "tool belt" solar electric generating facility experience.

Mr. Rousso holds a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arizona.