Bates Marshall is the CEO and Co-founder of low-light photovoltaic (PV) cell company'Ambient Photonics, where he transforms ambitious never-before-imagined ideas into market-transforming products at scale. As a product marketing and sales executive in the semiconductor and electronics industries for nearly 15 years, Bates has expertise spanning the entire electronics ecosystem, from the chip stage through the supply chain through market development. Beginning in 2005, Bates moved full time into the solar PV industry and led global teams at Huawei, SMA and Advanced Energy to construct factories and bring novel PV process technologies to market. He co-founded Ambient in 2019.