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Chris Rivest

American businessman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 12, 2023
Entity authorityQ5107878 ↗
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Chris Rivest is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of SunPrint (later Alion), a company that develops technology to inexpensively fabricate solar cells using acoustic printing. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 2010 he was recognized as a "young innovator" by being listed in the MIT Technology Review's TR35 list.

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“Chris Rivest” enters the record as american businessman. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chris, Rivest and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chris Rivest” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.