Jean-Christophe Hadorn is an independent energy consultant; he is the CEO of BASE Consultants SA, Geneva, a strategy and management consulting company which advises public and private businesses since 2000 in strategy, management and M&A. He is currently president of SES Solar Inc in Geneva and USA and works as a consultant for solar PV and low energy buildings. Furthermore, Mr. Hadorn has been appointed since 1985 as the manager of the national "solar heat and heat storage" research program of the Swiss government.

During his 30 years of experience in the solar industry, Mr. Hadorn has pursued an outstanding carrier which included following responsibilities:

• Participation in several International Energy Agency (IEA) Tasks within the Solar Heating and Cooling Program (Task 7 1979-1985, Task 26 1996-2001, and Task 32 which he has lead as an Operating Agent from 2003 to 2007).
• Set up of the National Institute of Solar Energy INES in Chambéry, France for the french national and regional authorities (from 2003 to 2005).
• Member and chairman of the Swiss Geothermal Energy Commission (KGS) from 1992 to 1996.
• Project leader with BSI Engineering, a consulting company in energy and information technology in Switzerland, on a geographical information system software product for the design and management of energy networks as principal developer of software, code named HyperBird (from 1986 to 1995).
• Project engineer for SORANE SA, a solar energy and engineering company in Switzerland, where he advised architects and designed energy concepts for buildings and industry (from 1981 to 1985).
• Researcher at the Institute for Energy Production (IPEN) within the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, on large scale storage of solar heat in deep aquifers (from 1979 to 1981).

Through his many responsibilities, Mr. Hadorn has developed an extended and in depth knowledge of the worldwide solar industry and also in all renewables in general. He is a lecturer at EPF Lausanne on solar energy and renewable energy, at HEC Lausanne in sustainable development and coaches the individual strategy projects of all e-MBA candidates at HEC Lausanne since 2007.

Mr. Hadorn is French and Swiss and received his master degree in Civil Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in 1979 and his MBA from HEC University of Lausanne in 1998, together with several awards for outstanding quality of work. Since 2006, he holds with partners a patent on an innovative way of assembling solar photovoltaic modules.