William "Bill" J. Pratt, former Founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of RF Micro Devices, Inc., named as Chairman to Koolbridge Solar Board of Advisors

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Jul 01, 2015, 01:53 ET

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., July 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Mr. Pratt founded RF Micro Devices in Greensboro, NC in 1991. The Company designs and manufactures high-performance radio frequency systems and solutions for applications that drive wireless and broadband communications. RFMD traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol RFMD. RF Micro has 3500 employees, 1500 of them in Guilford County, North Carolina. The company announced in February, 2014 that it would merge with TriQuint Semiconductor. On January 2nd, 2015, RFMD and Triquint jointly announced that they had completed their merger of equals to form Qorvo, a company with a recent Market Cap greater than $11B.

"I am honored to be chosen as Chairman to Koolbridge Solar's Board of Advisors. It is a great pleasure to add my technical and business knowledge in support of new solar technology being developed by Dr. Paul Dent and his Associates at Koolbridge Solar. In my opinion, Koolbridge has a great technology which will be very important for optimization of solar technology. I look forward to working with Paul to help create what I know will be, a very successful enterprise," said Bill Pratt.

About Koolbridge Solar

The principle business of Koolbridge Solar Inc. is to design, develop and sell innovative electrical products that allow solar energy to be integrated into homes more efficiently and economically, to reduce energy bills, and to provide greater supply reliability by:

Providing solutions to increase in-home solar efficiencies.
Providing solutions to decrease homeowner's energy costs.
Providing solutions that increase the homeowner's Return On Investment.
Providing solutions that complete the communications chain from utility to "smart grid" to "smart home" to "smart appliance."

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