Neville Williams

A lifelong adventurer, world traveler, journalist and amateur mountaineer, Neville Williams is the founder and chairman of Standard Solar Inc., a solar energy company serving the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area with residential solar-electric systems. He is the author of "Chasing The Sun: Solar Adventures Around The World," which chronicles his 14-year effort to sell, finance and install 75,000 solar home lighting systems in 11 countries, including India, China, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and South Africa. Williams has been a war correspondent in Vietnam, a writer-producer for WNBC-TV News in New York and the national media director for Greenpeace USA.