|
|
|
|
Board of Directors
Mr. Yonghua Lu is the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and founder of Solarfun. He also has been chairman of Linyang Electronics since 1997 and was general manager of that company from 1997 to August 2006. Linyang Electronics had been the parent company of Linyang China until June 2, 2006. Mr. Lu was general manager of Qidong Changtong Computer Group Company, and deputy manager of Qidong Computer Factory, from 1988 to 1996. Mr. Lu has over 20 years of experience in enterprise management. He has received many awards and honors for his entrepreneurship, including being named one of Jiangsu Province’s Top Ten Outstanding Young Entrepreneurs and Fifth-term National Township Entrepreneur.
Dr. Sven Michael Hansen has been a Director of Solarfun since August 2006. Dr. Hansen currently serves as the Chief Investment Officer of Good Energies Inc. He also serves as the Chairman of Concentrix Solar GmbH, a German company that focuses on the development of solar power plants, and as a Director of Trina Solar Limited- a Chinese solar products manufacturer, and InErgies Capital Inc.- a Swiss company that advises on energy sector investments. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative of the United Nations. From 2001 to 2003, he was a Managing Partner of Black Emerald Group in Switzerland. Dr. Hansen served as group Finance Director and was also a member of the Executive Board of Intels Group from 1999 to 2001. From 1996 to 1998, he worked in New York and London as a Vice President and an Executive Director in the Structured Finance group of UBS.
Mr. Yin Shang Gu, 69. He started his career from Electricity Administration Bureau of Eastern China. He worked there for 36 years till he retired. Before he retired in 1999, Mr. Gu was Deputy Director of Eastern China Electricity Administration Bureau and Director of Shanghai Electricity Administration Bureau. Mr. Gu's experience, expertise and social relationship will benefit greatly the companies ability to tap China's PV market, enhancing the company's influence in the industry, obtaining more business opportunity and experts. Mr. Thomas J. Toy has served as an independent Director of Solarfun since November 2006. His other current positions include Director and incoming Chairman-elect of the Board, compensation committee chairperson and audit committee member of UTStarcom Inc. (Nasdaq: UTSI), Director and corporate governance committee chairperson of White Electronic Designs Corp. (Nasdaq: WEDC) and director of several privately held companies. Mr. Toy has also been co-founder and managing director of PacRim Venture Partners, a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, since 1999, and he is a partner with SmartForest Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Portland, Oregon. From 1987 to 1999, he was Partner and Managing Director of the Corporate Finance Division of Technology Funding, a venture capital firm based in San Mateo, California. From 1979 to 1987, Mr. Toy held several positions at Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association, including vice president.
Mr. Terry McCarthy has served as an independent Director of Solarfun since November 2006. From 1985 to 2006, Mr. McCarthy worked for Deloitte & Touche LLP in San Jose, California in various roles, including as Managing Partner, Tax Partner-in-charge and client services Partner. Beginning in 1999, he worked extensively with companies entering the China market and, from 2003 to 2006, he was Associate Managing Partner of the Deloitte US Chinese Services Group. In 1976, Mr. McCarthy co-founded Hayes, Perisho & McCarthy, Inc., a CPA firm in Sunnyvale, California, where he was an audit Partner and President from 1976 to 1985. From 1972 to 1976, he held several positions at Hurdman & Cranstoun, CPAs, including Senior Audit Manager.
Mr. Ernst A. Bütler has been an independent Director of Solarfun since November 2006. Mr. Bütler has been an independent board member/consultant and owner of E.A. Bütler Management in Zurich since 2005. His other current positions include board member of Bank Frey & Co. AG, Zurich, Chairman of the Board of Alegra Capital Ltd., Zürich, board member of PHI Investment, Zurich, consultant to the owner of a group of PRC companies, and advisor to the executive board of Partners Group in Zug, Switzerland, the largest independent Asset Manager of Alternative Investments in Europe. From 1999 to 2005, he was a partner of Partners Group in Zug, responsible for markets in Switzerland, Italy and France. Mr. Bütler spent over 25 years with Credit Suisse and Credit Suisse First Boston, where his last assignment was Managing Director and co-head of the Corporate and Investment Banking Division in Switzerland.
|
