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Thomas Rohrs has been appointed by Skyline Solar as the new company CEO and as a member of the company’s board of directors. Bob MacDonald (pictured), Skyline’s co-founder and former CEO, will now serve as the CTO. Rohrs has over 30 years of technology executive management experience, including the past thirteen years as an executive, board member and advisor for companies in the semiconductor, renewable and solar energy industries.
One of the founders of thin-film PV manufacturer Solyndra has left the company to head a green energy storage company. Kelly Truman, the CIGS firm’s former senior VP, will be the new president/CEO of Deeya Energy.
In an effort to prepare for volume manufacture, QuantaSol, the independent designer and manufacturer of strain-balanced quantum-well solar cells, has undergone significant restructuring.
Richard Swanson (pictured), CTO and cofounder of SunPower, is the 2010 recipient of the IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa medal, which is sponsored by the Federation of Electric Power Companies, Japan, and the Semiconductor Research Foundation, Japan. The medal was awarded for Swanson’s concept and commercialization of high-efficiency point-contact crystalline-silicon solar cell technology.
Solar and energy industry vet Gregory Ashley has joined Solar Frontier Americas as VP and COO for the thin-film PV company’s pan-American operations. He will oversee sales and marketing for Solar Frontier in North and South America and will be responsible for commercializing the Tokyo-based firm’s copper-indium-selenide (CIS) technology in those markets.
Well-known equity research analyst, Jesse Pichel has moved from Piper Jaffray to become Managing Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst covering Clean Technology companies at investment bank, Jefferies. The team he led at Jaffray’s has also followed him to Jefferies, which includes Elaine Kwei, Min Xu and Constance Wang.
Having been involved in International Standards for ten years at SEMI, Bettina Weiss, Senior Director, Photovoltaics, SEMI PV Group has been awarded with the 2010 Women in Solar Energy Award at the recent American Solar Energy Society (ASES) National Conference, where she also gave a presentation. Bettina first joined the SEMI Europe office in Belgium in 1996.
Enfinity Power, part of the Enfinity Group, chose Hans De Backer as CEO and Steven De Tollenaere as CEO of Enfinity Group. In addition to CEO of Enfinity Power, de Backer will also be the group’s CFO. Enfinity Power, acting as an independent power producer (IPP), will produce and sell renewable power to customers.
With the June 30 departure of centrotherm photovoltaic’s current CFO, Oliver Albrecht, the company will welcome a new face into the role with Thomas Riegler. Riegler will take over the position August 1.
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.
