Solmetric focuses on developing quality tools for the solar installation industry. The top-notch engineering and management team is committed to producing the highest quality products. Our background includes extensive experience in the solar installation industry and in the development of high precision test and measurement tools.


Before founding Solmetric Corporation, Mr. MacDonald worked for 9 years as a senior design engineer for the test and measurement company Agilent Technologies (formerly Hewlett Packard). There he helped to develop a new line of precision electronic measurement devices, including optical test equipment and high bandwidth oscilloscopes. He holds 7 patents for new technologies in the test and measurement field. Mr. MacDonald received his MS in computer science and his BS in electrical engineering, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Mr. Galli has over 16 years of professional software experience, eight of those working on embedded systems development in the test and measurement industry at Agilent Technologies and Keithley Instruments. His prior experience also includes scientific computing at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He received his MS in Computer Science from University of Oregon and a BS in Physics from Northern Illinois University.

Mr. Hoberg has over 20 years experience in marketing and business development with Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies. He has had a variety of responsibilities including product management, sales support, and support planning for test and measurement hardware and software solutions. More recently he was business development manager at a small renewable energy company. Mr. Hoberg holds a Green MBA degree from the New College of California and has an BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Mr. MacDonald has 30 years of entrepreneurial business experience as President/CEO of six companies, including two that he took public, and as partner in two venture capital firms. He has served on the Boards of Directors of more than 25 early stage companies. Mr. MacDonald received a B.S. in Engineering Physics and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.