Arun Amirtham

Zürich Area, Switzerland Switzerland

Program Director at zeroPoverty Social Business

Arun Amirtham is a solar entrepreneur who is passionate about the deployment of solar photovoltaic technology towards sustainable development, rural electrification and the transition to a post-carbon society. Following a corporate career with Philips Semiconductors spanning over twenty-four years, when he accompanied and actively participated in the mobile revolution, he transitioned to the solar industry in 2009 and developed the Modular Mass-Deployment Solar Station (M2S2) to provide a mechanism for rapid electricity deployment in locations where even minimal infrastructure to set-up an off-grid solar power plant is non-existent. The M2S2 is a multi-function platform (MFP) that offers...