Meet Our Team

Meet the friendly faces at RETC, and take a peek at our office life! We have great benefits, teams, and opportunities. Join us on our mission to enable a safer and more sustainable future. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

 

The

Leadership Team

 

Cherif Kedir
CEO & President

Cherif is a solar industry veteran of 15+ years with experience extending from product development, product engineering, yield enhancement, performance enhancement, test site development, redurability testing, bankability, to certification testing. He also has an extensive 11-year background in Semiconductors, specifically with product engineering, testing, and failure analysis. He leads a team dedicated to helping the renewable energy industry thrive.

Dick Bayangos
CFO

Dick handles total finance and HR at RETC. Dick was the Regulatory Manager of Verizon in Virginia and earned “CFO Recognition Award – Accountability without Excuses” for researching, resolving, and saving the company over $50M in Federal Universal Service Fund (FUSF) discrepancies. He also developed a new remittance model that minimized over remittance of FUSF to FCC, streamlined and strengthened SOX control procedures.

Zennia Villanueva
VP Quality

Zen is the main liaison between customers and partner NRTLs for certification projects, creating test plans, construction evaluation, and technical reports. Zen is a licensed CQE under the American Society for Quality. She also contributes to international and local PV standards and specifications. Before joining RETC, Zen led product quality, global supplier qualification, and overseas subcontractor quality management at the PV module company Solaria.

 
 

Saeed Arash Far
VP of Engineering and Operations

Saeed has over 22 years of people management, product architecture design, patent, hands-on product development, and quality engineering experience. He is a seasoned architect and developer of utility-grade, industrial, commercial, and consumer solutions, and sensor technologies.Before joining RETC, Saeed held a variety of executive engineering and board member roles for technology startups.

Camille Sherrod
Head of
Sales & Project Management

Camille has been with RETC since the start of her solar career in 2016. She first joined as RETC’s laboratory operations manager and has since managed the company’s internal sales and project management resources. In these roles, she has worked directly with different customers across the renewable industry, allowing her to understand the needs of different stakeholders up and down the value chain.

 
 

Careers

We thrive on providing technical due diligence services that ensure a worthwhile future. But we can’t do it alone. Make your mark by vetting the quality and reliability of the industry’s latest solar modules and battery energy storage products.

 
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Our Locations

Today, RETC is proudly represented by employees in our California, Arizona, and Philippines locations. We’re creative and collaborative. Our community of experts is not only passionate about testing new solar technology and batteries; we thrive because of our employees' diverse backgrounds—from semiconductor to PV manufacturing experience. RETC is united by the belief that our work is enabling a safer & more sustainable future.

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Fremont, CA, USA - Headquarters
Tempe, AX, USA | Cagayan de Oro, Philippines