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Evergreen Solar is aiming to expand its European reach with four new sales managers to service each of its key European regions: Germany, Italy, Spain and France. All the new sales managers will be charged with continuing to broaden the company’s presence in Europe while also maintaining current sales relationships in each region. The new managers will report directly to Thomas Hofmann, Evergreen’s director of sales for Europe.
Andrew Chen has been selected as the successor for the CFO position at Canadian Solar, while Arthur Chien, the company’s previous CFO, will continue with the company as special advisor to the CEO’s office until the end of this year. Chen comes from Shengda Tech where he was chief financial officer from April 2009 until September 2010. He also served as CFO to Trony Solar Holdings between September 2008 and March 2009. Chen’s appointment as CFO for Canadian Solar will begin immediately.
Having closed its 49.99% interest in Solarfun, Hanwha Chemical has been given seats on Solarfun’s board. Outgoing is Yonghua Lu and John Breckenridge, while independent directors, Terry McCarthy and Professor Rongqiang Cui, resigned from Solarfun. At the same time, three new appointments have come from Hanwha Chemical, as Ki-Joon Hong (CEO of Hanwha), Dong Kwan Kim and Wook Jin Yoon were appointed as directors of Solarfun.
HelioPower has welcomed two new additions to its executive management team, including Ty Jagerson who originally joined HelioPower as executive vice president of commercial sales when the company was acquired by Simple Energies earlier this year. Jagerson was formerly co-founder of SolFocus and CEO of Simple Energies and will now be President of HelioPower. Additionally, Todd Lindstrom has been chosen as the new chief operating officer.
Former chairman/CEO of Cambridge Display Technology, David Fyfe, has been appointed to the board of Konarka Technologies. He will serve as an independent director on Konarka’s board, giving advice on moving the company’s ‘Power Plastic’ PV to full commercialization.
LDK Solar has revealed three new additions to its management team, including a new chief strategy officer, vice president of cell technology and vice president of module sales and marketing.
Although Desmond Wheatley has been consulting for Envision Solar International since this past May, he was recently selected as the new president and COO of the company, effective immediately. Along with already having an established relationship with Envision, Wheatley brings 20 years of senior international management experience in technology systems integration, energy management, communications and renewable energy.
Amjad Bseisu, CEO of EnQuest PLC, has accepted the position as chairman of the board of directors for Enviromena Power Systems. The appointment is effective immediately. Bseisu is credited with leading EnQuest through dual public listings in London and Stockholm this past March and making EnQuest a constituent on the FTSE 250 Index. Bseisu is also credited as being a co-founder of Petrofac prior to EnQuest.
Solar microinverter company Enphase Energy has tapped ex-Google exec Bill Rossi to be its chief marketing officer. Rossi’s appointment comes as Enphase prepares to expand into new segments of the U.S. solar market, as well as new geographic regions worldwide.
A DEK employee for over 15 years, Ed Rabbitt has been appointed by DEK Solar as its new Solutions Engineer. Rabbitt will be responsible for print process solutions for advanced applications, in addition to supporting new solar installations directly with customers. DEK Solar has recently expanded its equipment manufacturing operations at its Weymouth, UK facility and the launched a new screen printer, dubbed Eclipse to meet growing demand.
