Nautilus SolarEnergy LLC said May 4 that it hired four new members for its projectacquisition and operations team to accelerate the company's overall growth.

"These seasoned professionals collectively have broad expertisein development and project execution and will help drive Nautilus' overall expansionto be a leading direct source of capital investment for distributed generation solarprojects," Nautilus Solar Energy CEO Jim Rice said.

The expanded team will consist of Scott Greenberg as vice presidentof operations, Steve Littlewood as director of business development for NortheastU.S., and Eric Lamora and Richard Sun as business development associates.

Most recently, Greenberg was director of operations at , while Littlewood wasdirector of business development for Amberjack Solar and regional sales managerfor Hanwha-SolarOne.

Lamora has extensive experience working with utilities such asPinnacle West Capital Corp.subsidiary Arizona Public ServiceCo. and Salt River Project.Sun comes from McKinsey & Co.Inc., where he served clients primarily within the infrastructure industry.