Dr. Eric Cummings is an entrepreneur/scientist in renewable energy. He is CEO/founder of Maxout Renewables, a power-electronics spin-out of the company Cool Earth Solar that Dr. Cummings founded in 2005 to make solar farming economical without subsidies. His expertise is finding minimum-cost and maximum scalability solutions to renewable energy problems. He previously founded LabSmith, a microfluidics company, and was a scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. He earned his Ph.D. from Caltech in Aeronautics and Chemistry in 1995, winning its highest honor, the Clauser Prize for “opening new avenues of human endeavor and thought.” He earned his B.S. in Engineering Science from Penn State University and was Penn State’s College of Engineering Alumnus of the Year in 2009. He is an advisor/mentor to numerous startups in microfluidics and renewable energy and has served as a mentor in the Department of Energy’s LabCore program. He holds 31 issued patents.