Marincola, Lesley
CEO, Angaza
Lesley Marincola is the Founder and CEO of Angaza. Angaza creates Pay-As-You-Go solar technology to enable manufacturers and distributors to make solar energy affordable to the world’s 1.2 billion off-grid individuals. A product designer (B.S.) and mechanical engineer (M.S.) from Stanford University, Lesley has also worked as a design engineer on the Amazon Kindle team, and at Bay Area design consultancy D2M Inc., with clients including DirecTV, Genentech, Qualcomm, and Volkswagen. Lesley was named a 2012 Tech Awards Laureate, in recognition of Angaza’s Pay-As-You-Go technology, is a World Economic Forum Young Global Shaper, was named a Forbes "30 Under 30" Entrepreneur, and is an Echoing Green Fellow. Lesley’s vision is to solve the world’s most widespread problems – like energy access – with market-driven technology innovation developed with a human-centered design approach.