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"For every family in liberal Texas that went solar with SunRise in 2022, nearly eight families in more conservative Fresno made the switch to our solar power service."
Shakeel Ahmad
Executive Chairman
Shakeel Ahmad is the Founder, Executive Chairman of Sunrise Solar Inc. He is also the creator of the core energy intelligence and management technologies embedded in the Sunrise Smart Solar System. In 2021, Mr. Shakeel received the most prestigious National award, Sitara-e-Imtiaz for his services in IT Industry. He served as the CEO of FireEye from 2004 until November 2012 and also served as its Board Vice Chairman, CFO and CTO.
Prior to FireEye, he founded Terraspring, Inc., and also served as the CTO of Sun Microsystems, Inc. N1 program. Before founding Terraspring, he spent 12 years at Sun Microsystems, Inc. as a Distinguished Engineer. He has over 80 patents in the areas of networking, network security, and data center virtualization. Mr. Shakeel also has the honor of receiving the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Ashar graduated from MIT with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Mr. Shakeel later received the University of California Regents fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley where he completed his MS in Electrical Engineering Computer Science.