Primary Job Title Chief Operating Officer Primary Organization 
Aurora Solar Technologies
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Greg Ayres is Aurora's Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Aurora, Mr. Ayres held leadership positions at a number of high-technology organizations in industrial automation, cloud services and SaaS. In addition, he has served as a member of the Board of Directors for Pavilion Technologies Inc., a real time performance management,
advanced process control and environmental compliance software solutions provider for process manufacturers (Austin, TX) and for YesVideo Inc., a cloud-based digital imaging company that provides systems, software, and online tools to index, organize, archive and share media content in real time (Santa Clara, CA).
Greg served 4 years as an executive at Honeywell Industrial Automation (NYSE: HON), serving as VP and GM of the Honeywell Industrial Pulp and Paper Automation Group and VP and GM of the Honeywell Industrial Metals Industry Group. He also served 12 years as an executive of Measurex Systems Inc., a company providing industrial measurement, automation, and information management systems to process industries, where he was responsible for the sales, software integration, and services associated with process control and information systems.
Following Honeywell, Greg was instrumental in the creation of YesVideo, where he served as Chief Operating Officer and built world-class, highly automated production and cloud hosting systems in the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, Australia, and India. At YesVideo, he developed efficient channels to consumers through partnerships with Costco, Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, Walgreens, CVS, Rite-Aid, Sony, JVC, Kodak, and FujiFilm. Prior to YesVideo,In his early career, Greg served as an engineer at Procter and Gamble (NYSE: PG) where he implemented capital improvement projects in P&G manufacturing plants.
Greg holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and successfully completed the Program for Management Development (PMD) at Harvard Business School.
