Dr. Dan Arvizu joined the HENAAC Board of Directors in the year 2000.

Dr. Arvizu became the eighth Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on January 15, 2005.

NREL, in Golden, Colorado, began operations in 1977 and is the Department of Energy's primary laboratory for energy efficiency and renewable energy research and development. NREL is operated for DOE by Midwest Research Institute (MRI) and Battelle. Dr. Arvizu also is a Senior Vice President with MRI, headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.

Prior to joining NREL, Dr. Arvizu was the chief technology officer with CH2M HILL Companies, Ltd. Before joining CH2M he was an executive with Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He started his career and spent four years at the AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories.

In 2004, Dr. Arvizu was appointed by President George W. Bush, and confirmed by the full U.S. Senate, to be on the 24-member National Science Board (NSB), which is the governing board of the National Science Foundation and the national science policy advisory body to the President and the Congress.

In addition to HENAAC, Dr. Arvizu serves on a number of Boards, Panels and Advisory Committees including the Advisory Board of the American Council on Renewable Energy, and the Greater Metro Denver Board of the Salvation Army.

He has received numerous recognitions and awards and has been selected as one of the "50 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business" by Hispanic Engineer and Information Technology magazine for the past four years.

He has a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from New Mexico State University and a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.