Doug Zingale is the CEO of Wilson Solarpower, a role he assumed in June, 2010. Prior to becoming CEO, he served briefly as a consultant to and as CFO of the company.

Doug had experience in green energy before Wilson while working with Thermo Electron, Brown and Root and Ogden Martin in the development and financing of waste-to-energy facilities.

Prior to his executive roles with Wilson, Doug served as a General Manager in Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division. In that capacity, Doug helped create Alchemie Ventures, a Microsoft incubator, and worked on mobile device and television projects.

Before Microsoft, Doug was a partner and part of senior management at national and international law firms focusing on technology companies. In that capacity, he acted as counsel to prominent technology companies, such as Biogen and America Online, technology focused investment banks, such as Alex Brown and S. G. Cowen, and venture capital firms, such as Atlas, North Hill and Prism. At the beginning of his career, Doug was an analyst at Bain Consulting focusing on consumer product companies.

Doug is a graduate of the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan Law School. He has served as a Director or Overseer of many charitable organizations, including the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge and the Boston Museum of Science. He was recognized by Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers of Massachusetts for many years for his work in mergers and acquisitions and securities and strategic transactions. He has been a frequent commentator on technology and finance issues in the technology business press and has written part of the “Inside the Minds” series on Mergers and Acquisitions Best Practices.