About
David is on the Board of Directors at Cobalt Power providing strategic guidance and leading sales leveraging his 17 years in solar; 14 years at SunPower and 3 years at Qcells. He also has 20 years of management experience in the mobile phone industry. Most recently, he was the President of Qcells Axia division, the direct-to-consumer business providing sales and installation services to homeowners. Led this Qcells division to $28 million of booked revenue per month, representing 640 sales per month – becoming the fastest growing solar EPC in the country in just 3 years. Prior to Qcells, David led the SunPower Direct business growing the business from 5 salespeople to over 120 salespeople delivering over 600 sales per week. This was SunPower’s most profitable channel and he reported the weekly business review directly to the President of SunPower. David’s career started as an Accenture consultant and then quickly pivoted to transforming how people communicated by joining the mobile phone industry when just 1% of the US population had a cellular phone. During David tenure at Sprint /T-Mobile, he led all the retail stores across the country. As a constant innovator, David was the New Technologies Director at AT&T Mobile and pioneered the smartphone. He convinced Apple to build the first prototype of their Apple phone.
David Saitta brings rare, enterprise-scale leadership across direct-to-consumer solar, manufacturing, and telecommunications. Having scaled SunPower Direct and Qcells Axia into nationally leading platforms with exceptional revenue velocity, he provides Cobalt with proven vision in aligning sales growth with operational execution. His track record of pioneering new markets, coupled with deep industry credibility, positions Cobalt to accelerate residential and commercial expansion across California and beyond.