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Public Relations company, Beckerman, has acquired Antenna Group, the nationally strategic communications firm specializing in serving clean technology companies and corporations concerned about sustainability. Antenna Group will retain its current management team, including Melody Haller, CEO and founder, and Caroline Venza, vice president.
Paul Garrity has been named as Enecsys’s head of advanced solar PV micro-inverter development. Joining the company from his former role as VP of engineering and advanced product development at FlexPower (a subsidiary of Flextronics International), Garrity brings over 20 years of power electronics experience to this post.
Q-Cells’ general meeting on June 24 of the supervisory board will hold an election for a new board member, with Karlheinz Hornung as the nominated party. Current board member, Andre Lee, has resigned from his office. Incumbent chairman, Marcel Brenninkmeijer, will make the office as chairman available and propose Hornung for this position at the general meeting as well, if Hornung is elected to the supervisory board. Brenninkmeijer will continue as a member of the board for Q-Cells.
CPV company Amonix has added Patrick McCullough as company CFO, while also adding Matthew Ryan and Michael Skelly to the company board as independent directors. Patrick McCullough brings over 15 years’ experience in corporate finance to the role, garnered from several global Fortune 500 companies.
Wilson W. Liu has been newly appointed by Apollo Solar Energy as the company’s new chief financial officer. In addition to his annual base salary, Liu was given stock options to acquire up to 500,000 shares of Apollo stock , the first 200,000 to be distributed in equal monthly payments during his first year of employment. Current interim CFO, Xuefen Li will continue as chief accounting officer of Sichuan Apollo Solar Science and Technology.
Professor Michael Gratzel, from the Lausanne Federal Technology Institute was named the Millennium Technology prize winner with an €800,000 financial award at Finland’s Technology Academy ceremony in Helsinki. Gratzel’s win comes from his innovation in which the Gratzel cell mimics the way plants turn sunlight into energy.
Enphase Energy’s executive management team has welcomed a new recruit in Jeff Loebbaka who will serve as VP of worldwide sales. Bringing more than twenty years of management, sales and marketing experience to his role, Loebbaka will help the company expand its market hold in Europe.
William Post, former chairman of the board for Arizona Public Service and Pinnacle West Capital, where he also served as CEO, has been elected as the newest member of First Solar’s board of directors. The First Solar election occurred on June 1 at the company’s annual shareholder’s meeting.
Shallow-junction photonics company SiOnyx has tapped over 20 years of technology management experience with its addition of Jeannine Sargent to its board of directors. A surprise departure from her two-year tenure at the helm of Oerlikon Solar in November 2009 was followed by her current role at Crosslink Capital, where she is involved in the company’s Energy and Core Technology/Semiconductor Practice.
SunPower announced Eric Branderiz as its new vice president and corporate controller directly under the CFO. Bringing over 17 years of financial experience in financial accounting management, strategic business planning and cash and working capital management, Branderiz will be responsible for all accounting and financial reporting to the company.
