Tag Archives: ceo
Evergreen Solar CEO Jumps Ship $ESLR
Evergreen Solar today announced that MichaelEl-Hillow will become the new CEO. He replaces Richard Feldt who hastaken a job as CEO of a privately held company. El-Hillow has been associated with Evergreen for years. He served aschairman from October 2005 to January 2007 and then he stepped intobecome CFO. COO was added to his duties [...]
Interview with Paul Berberian CEO of ZettaSun
This week’s post is an interview with Paul Berberian, a successful investor in Boulder, Colorado. He is the President and CEO of ZetaSun, Inc., aconcentrating solar business. How many tech/software people do you meetwho are also changing the world with clean tech businesses as well?Well, maybe more than you think. Paul is cross-applying his industryexpertise [...]
Cen Named CEO Of Q-Cells
The supervisory board of Q-Cells SE has named Nedim Cen CEO for the next five years, effective Sept. 1. Cen, who served as managing director at restructuring advisor Alvarez &Marsal, took on the position of CFO at Q-Cells in June 2009, as well asthe CEO position in March 2010 on an interim basis. He has [...]
Solyndra Swaps CEO
Rumors confirmed — Brian Harrison has joinedSolyndra as President and CEO. Since 2008, Mr. Harrison has served asPresident and CEO of Numonyx, a flash memory company. Chris Gronet,Solyndra’s Founder and current CEO, will continue as Chairman of theBoard of Directors. The VC playbook is rather thin. Provide more money, stop providingmoney or replace the CEO [...]
AMAT CEO: India Solar Market Can Be Biggest in the World
Applied Materials Chairman and CEO, Mike Splinter, discusses thesolar industry in India and its potential to be at the center of thisexplosion in demand for solar generated energy, in an interview with Business Today — India’sNo. 1 business magazine.
Interview With Solaria CEO Dan Shugar
Dan Shugar has been involved in the world of solarsince the early days of 1988. He built PowerLight with Tom Dinwoodie(now CTO at SunPower), and that pioneering solar firm built over 500large installations and grew strong from 1996 to 2006. SunPowerpurchased PowerLight in 2007 for $332 million as part of theirdownstream integration strategy. Shugar worked [...]
Abound Solar’s CEO Promising Sub $1 Per Watt PV
Tom Tiller is new to the solar industry. He joinedVC-funded Abound Solar about 90 days ago as the new CEO and has the daunting challenge oframping up a cadmium telluride photovoltaic company from a relativestanding start to confront market behemoth First Solar and China’scrystalline solar dragons. Tiller was CEO of Polaris Industries (NYSE:PII) for nine [...]
Big Losses, CEO Quits: What Went Wrong at Q-Cells?
Leading German cell producer Q-Cells has gone fromweakness after weakness over the last 12 months, and someone had to pay. As things turned out, it happened to be the man at the top. CEO Anton Milner quit his job last Thursday, citing a "huge loss ofconfidence" on account of the company’s terrible 2009 results. Thecompany [...]
Q-Cells Names New CEO
Q-Cells SE has appointed Nedim Cen,currently chief financial officer (CFO) and a member of the advisoryboard, the company’s new CEO. He will also continue to serve as CFO. Cenreplaces Anton Milner, who has resigned but will serve as a companyadvisor. Carsten Simon, director of finance, will support Cen in theday-to-day management of CFO tasks.