MR. NIR MAROM
MR. NIR MAROM, Co-founder & President of Lumos: Nir Marom is an
entrepreneur and the co-founder of Lumos, a disruptive off-grid solar
energy provider focused on emerging markets. The company offers lowcost
solar systems to the 1.3 billion people worldwide who are not
connected to the grid, using an innovative, pay-as-you-go system in
partnership with mobile service providers. In December 2016, Lumos
announced a historic deal in the form of a $90 million investment, the
largest in the history of the industry. Lumos is today partnered with
Nigeria’s largest mobile provider MTN, and the world’s most influential
development organisations, having received from OPIC in order to provide
c. 250,000 systems to northern Nigeria, affecting more that 1 million
people as part of former United States President Barak Obama’s Power
Africa initiative. Before founding Lumos, Nir founded two successful,
innovative companies in the energy space- Greenlet Technologies (a hightech
startup which developed and sells utility scale energy demand
management hardware and software) and SunIsrael (a solar energy
producer –which develops, finances, builds, operates and owns large scale
solar facilities).