Ari Piispanen – CEO and founder: Inventor of Afstor Solar Cooker and the related business model. Ari has invented numerous products within various fuels, energy production and storage, and patented sixty of them. He has developed them into a product and a business, and continued to invent.

Jero Ahola – Founder: Inventor of Afstor Solar Cooker and the related business model. Jero works as a Professor in energy efficiency in electrically driven systems at Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT) and holds twenty patents.

Both Ari and Jero have won several Finnish and international awards in innovation.