People: Canadian Solar Inc (CSIQ.O)

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Xiaohua Qu

 48 2001 Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer

Michael Potter

 45 2011 Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President, Director

Guangchun Zhang

 2012 Chief Operating Officer

Charlotte Xi Klein

 56 2011 Senior Vice President - Global Operations

Yan Zhuang

 48 2012 Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer

Robert McDermott

 70 2006 Lead Independent Director

Lars-Eric Johansson

 65 2006 Independent Director

Harry Ruda

 53 2011 Independent Director

Ed Job

 Director - Investor Relations
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Biographies

Name Description

Xiaohua Qu

 Dr. Xiaohua Qu., Ph.D., is Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer of Canadian Solar Inc., since October 2001. Prior to joining, Dr. Qu worked at ATS Automation Tooling Systems, Inc. and its subsidiaries in the solar power business from 1998 to 2001, where he performed various responsibilities, including acting as product engineer, director for silicon procurement, director for solar product strategic planning and business development and technical vice president (Asia Pacific region) of Photowatt International S.A. From 1996 to 1998, Dr. Qu was a research scientist at Ontario Power Generation (formerly Ontario Hydro), where he worked as a process leader in the development of Spheral SolarTM technology, a next-generation solar technology. Prior to joining Ontario Power Generation Corp., Dr. Qu was a post-doctorate research fellow at the University of Toronto, focusing on semiconductor optical devices and solar cells. He has published research articles in academic journals such as IEEE Quantum Electronics, Applied Physics Letter and Physical Review. Dr. Qu received a Ph.D. degree in material science from the University of Toronto in 1995, a master of science in physics from University of Manitoba in 1990 and a bachelor of science in applied physics from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China in 1986.

Michael Potter

 Mr. Michael G. Potter is the Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President, Director of Canadian Solar Inc. Mr. Potter has served as an independent director of the Company since September 2007 until he was appointed director, chief financial officer and senior vice president since July 2011. Mr. Potter has worked in finance, controlling and audit positions with a variety of multinational companies for over 20 years. From February 2009 to April 2011, he served as the corporate vice president and chief financial officer of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, a Nasdaq-listed semiconductor device company. Prior to that, he was senior vice president and chief financial officer of NYSE-listed NeoPhotonics Corporation, a provider of photonic integrated circuit-based modules, components and subsystems for use in optical communications networks with operations in Shenzhen, China. Before joining NeoPhotonics in May 2007, he was the senior vice president and chief financial officer of STATS ChipPAC, a semiconductor assembly and test services company based in Singapore and listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. Before that, he held a variety of executive positions at NYSE-listed Honeywell Inc. Mr. Potter is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Concordia University, Canada and a Diploma of Accountancy from McGill University, Canada.

Guangchun Zhang

 Mr. Guangchun Zhang has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer of Canadian Solar Inc., effective December 13, 2012. Mr. Zhang has over 18 years of experience in the photovoltaic industry. Before joining Canadian Solar, Mr. Zhang worked for Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd, most recently as Vice President for R&D and Industrialization of Manufacturing Technology. Prior to joining Suntech, Mr. Zhang had previously worked at the Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Australia and Pacific Solar Pty. Limited. Mr. Zhang received his bachelor degree in 1982 from the School of Electronic Engineering at Shandong Industrial Institute.

Charlotte Xi Klein

 Ms. Charlotte Xi Klein is Senior Vice President - Global Operations of Canadian Solar Inc. She has served as senior vice president of global operations since July 2011. Prior to that, she has served as vice president of global operations from November 2009 to July 2011, vice president of finance from August 2008 to November 2009 and compliance officer from September 2007 to November 2009. She also served as corporate controller from February 2007 to July 2008. Prior to joining the company, between 2004 and 2007, Ms. Xi Klein was director of accounting and compliance at ARAMARK Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, and TV Guide Magazine in the United States, responsible for financial reporting and implementing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance during the first year of its applicability. In addition to her corporate reporting experience, Ms. Xi Klein spent eight years in manufacturing facilities with progressive job responsibilities from cost accountant to plant controller for Saint-Gobain Corporation and Armstrong World Industries. Ms. Xi Klein holds a bachelor's degree from the Shanghai Teachers University and MA and MBA degrees from the Midwestern State University in Texas. She is also a member of the AICPA and has been a Texas-licensed CPA since 1996.

Yan Zhuang

 Mr. Yan Zhuang is Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer of Canadian Solar Inc. He has served as senior vice president of global sales and marketing since July 2011, and prior to that as vice president of global sales and marketing since June 2009. He was an independent director of the Company from September 2007 to June 2009. Mr. Zhuang has worked in corporate branding, sales and marketing positions with, or provided consulting services to, a variety of multinational companies for over 15 years. In 2008, he founded and became a director of INS Research and Consulting. Mr. Zhuang was the head of Asia for Hands-on Mobile, Inc., a global media and entertainment company with operations in China, South Korea and India, from 2006 to 2007. He previously served as senior vice president of business operations and marketing in Asia. Before joining Hands-on Mobile, Inc., he held various marketing and business operation positions with Motorola Inc., including as its Asia Pacific regional director of marketing planning and consumer insight. Prior to that, he was a marketing consultant in Canada and China. Mr. Zhuang holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Northern Jiaotong University, China, a Master of Science degree in applied statistics from the University of Alberta, Canada and a Master of Science degree in marketing management from the University of Guelph, Canada.

Robert McDermott

 Mr. Robert McDermott is Lead Independent Director of Canadian Solar Inc., since August 2006. Mr. McDermott is a corporate director and consultant. Before July 2011, he was a partner with McMillan LLP, a business law firm based in Canada, where he practiced business law, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, securities and corporate finance, and advised boards and special committees of public companies on corporate governance matters. He is now a counsel to the firm. Mr. McDermott was admitted to the Ontario Bar in Canada in 1968. He has a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Toronto in1966 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1963.

Lars-Eric Johansson

 Mr. Lars-Eric E. Johansson is an Independent Director of Canadian Solar Inc., since August 2006. Mr. Johansson has worked in finance and controls positions for more than thirty years in Sweden and Canada. He has been the president and chief executive officer of Ivanplats Limited (formerly known as Ivanhoe Nickel & Platinum Ltd.), a Canadian private mining company since May 1, 2007. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Johansson was a director and chairperson of the audit committee of Harry Winston Diamond Corporation, a specialist diamond company with assets in the mining and retail segments of the diamond industry. From May 2004 to April 2006, he was an executive vice president and the chief financial officer of Kinross Gold Corporation, a gold mining company dually listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. Between June 2002 and November 2003, Mr. Johansson was an executive vice president and chief financial officer of Noranda Inc., a Canadian mining company dually listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. Until May 2004, Mr. Johansson served as a special advisor at Noranda Inc. From 1989 to May 2002, he was the chief financial officer of Falconbridge Limited, a mining and metals company in Canada listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. He has chaired the audit committee of Golden Star Resources Ltd., a gold mining company dually listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and American Stock Exchange, from 2006 to 2010. From 2002 to 2003, he was also a director of Novicor Inc., a company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Mr. Johansson holds an MBA, with a major in finance and accounting, from Gothenburg School of Economics in Sweden.

Harry Ruda

 Dr. Harry E. Ruda has been appointed as an Independent Director of Canadian Solar Inc., effective July 20, 2011. He is the Director of the Centre for Advanced Nanotechnology, the Stanley Meek Chair in Nanotechnology and Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada. From 1982 to 1984, he developed one of the first theories for electron transport in selectively doped two dimensional electron gas heterostructures, while working as an IBM post-doctoral fellow. From 1984 to 1989, he was a senior scientist at 3M Corporation, developing some of the first models for electronic transport and optical properties of wide bandgap II-VI semiconductors. Dr. Ruda joined the faculty of the University of Toronto in 1989 in the Material Science and Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments. His research interests focus on the fabrication and modeling of semiconductor nanostructures with applications in the fields of optoelectronics and sensing. Dr. Ruda is one of the founders of a Canadian National Centre of Excellence in Photonics. He has served on the National Science and Engineering Council of Canada and on other government panels, including those of the DOE, EPA and NSF in the United States and the RAE and EPSRC in the UK. Dr. Ruda is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He obtained his PhD in semiconductor physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982.

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Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total

Xiaohua Qu

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Michael Potter

 --

Guangchun Zhang

 --

Charlotte Xi Klein

 --

Yan Zhuang

 --

Robert McDermott

 --

Lars-Eric Johansson

 --

Harry Ruda

 --

Ed Job

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Options Compensation

Name Options Value

Xiaohua Qu

 0 0

Michael Potter

 0 0

Guangchun Zhang

 0 0

Charlotte Xi Klein

 0 0

Yan Zhuang

 0 0

Robert McDermott

 0 0

Lars-Eric Johansson

 0 0

Harry Ruda

 0 0

Ed Job

 0 0

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