People: Real Goods Solar Inc (RSOL.PH)

RSOL.PH on Philadelphia Stock Exchange

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23 May 2013
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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Jirka Rysavy

57 2008 Chairman of the Board

John Schaeffer

62 2008 President, Director

Kamyar Mofid

44 2012 Chief Executive Officer, Director

Tony DiPaolo

53 2013 Chief Financial Officer

David Belluck

50 2011 Director

Pavel Bouska

58 2012 Director

Steven Kaufman

46 2011 Independent Director

Barbara Mowry

64 2008 Independent Director

Biographies

Name Description

Jirka Rysavy

Mr. Jirka Rysavy is Chairman of the Board of Real Goods Solar Inc., since January 29, 2008. Mr. Rysavy has served as the Chairman of Gaiam since its inception and served as Gaiam’s Chief Executive Officer from December 1998 to March 2009. Gaiam founded company in 1999 and currently holds approximately 37.5% of the shares of Class A Common Stock. In 1986, Mr. Rysavy founded Corporate Express, Inc., which, under his leadership, grew to become a Fortune 500 company supplying office and computer products and services. He was its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until September 1998. Mr. Rysavy also founded and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Crystal Market, a health foods market, which was sold in 1987 to become the concept and first Wild Oats Markets store.

John Schaeffer

Mr. John Schaeffer serves as President, Director of Real Goods Solar, Inc. In 1978, Mr. Schaeffer founded Real Good Trading Corporation, which was acquired by Gaiam in 2001. Between 1986 and 2008, Mr. Schaeffer served as either the President or Chief Executive Officer of Real Goods Trading Corporation, and served as Chief Executive Officer from January to November 2008. Mr. Schaeffer has been involved in businesses selling solar and renewable energy products for more than 30 years. In 1995, Mr. Schaeffer helped create the Solar Living Center in Hopland, California. Mr. Schaeffer has been honored with numerous awards for his environmental business practices and his entrepreneurial successes.

Kamyar Mofid

Mr. Kamyar Mofid is appointed as Chief Executive Officer, Director of Real Goods Solar, Inc. Most recently Mr. Mofid was General Manager of Global Residential and Light Commercial Systems at SunEdison, a global provider of solar energy solutions. Prior to this role, from March 2010 to July 2011 he was President of Mainstream Energy, a downstream solar energy company and the parent company of REC Solar and AEE Solar. Prior to his entry into the solar sector, Mr. Mofid served as President of Teleflex Power Systems, a business unit of Teleflex, Inc. focused on environmentally friendly products and technologies, starting in July 2005. In the earlier part of his career, Mr. Mofid held engineering and operations management positions at United Technologies and General Motors. Mr. Mofid holds an M.Sc. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Industrial & Systems Engineering and a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Tony DiPaolo

Mr. Tony DiPaolo is appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of Real Goods Solar, Inc. He has over 20 years of experience as a senior finance and accounting professional. From February 2007 through June 2012, Mr. DiPaolo was employed by Incentra Solutions (“Incentra”), a provider of information technology and storage management solutions to enterprises and managed services providers in North America and Europe. Incentra was publicly traded through April 2009 when it became a private company. Mr. DiPaolo was the Chief Financial Officer of Incentra through January 2010, when he was appointed President following Incentra’s divestiture of its value added resale business. Incentra changed its name to Presilient in June 2010. Mr. DiPaolo resigned from his position as President in August 2010 and remained an employee of Presilient through June 2012. From July 2012 to January 2013, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer for Roomlinx, Inc., a publicly traded provider of media and entertainment services to the hospitality industry. Mr. DiPaolo has a bachelor of science degree in accounting from the University of Denver and is a licensed certified public accountant in Colorado.

David Belluck

Mr. David L. Belluck is Director of Real Goods Solar Inc. Since 1998, Mr. Belluck has been a General Partner of Riverside Partners, a Boston-based, private equity investment firm. Mr. Belluck controls Riverside Partners III, LLC, which is the general partner of Riverside Partners III, LP, which is the general partner of Riverside Fund III, LP. Riverside is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Riverside Fund III, LP. and holds approximately 29.3% of the currently shares of Class A Common Stock.

Pavel Bouska

Mr. Pavel Bouska is appointed as the Director of Real Goods Solar, Inc. Mr. Bouska has been an independent business consultant and President of WIT, LLC since 2006. From 2003 to 2006, he was the Chief Executive Officer and served as a director of ionSKY Inc, a wireless Internet service provider. Between 1999 and 2003, Mr. Bouska served as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Gaiam, Inc., as Chief Executive Officer of Gaiam Energy Tech, Inc., the renewable energy division of Gaiam, Inc. that later became the Company, and as a director of Gaiam.com, Inc., an e-commerce subsidiary of Gaiam, Inc. In addition, Mr. Bouska served as a director of Gaiam, Inc. between 1991 and 1999. Gaiam, Inc. is a producer and marketer of lifestyle media and fitness accessories of the Company. From 1988 to 1999, he served as Chief Information Officer and Vice President, Information Technology of Corporate Express, Inc., a corporate supplier, as it grew from $2 million of gross revenues to a Fortune 500 company. From 1985 to 1988 Mr. Bouska worked as project leader at sd&m, a software company in Munich, Germany. He has experience with organization management and technology deployment in rapidly growing and changing environments, business unit integrations, and mergers and acquisitions. From 2002 to 2012, Mr. Bouska has also served as President and Chairman of the Board of Sunshine Fire Protection District in Boulder, Colorado.

Steven Kaufman

Mr. Steven B. Kaufman is Independent Director of Real Goods Solar Inc. Mr. Kaufman served as the Chief Executive Officer of Alteris Renewables, Inc., the design-build renewable energy company in the Northeast, until Real Goods Solar’s December 2011 acquisition of Alteris Renewables, Inc. Mr. Kaufman was an Operating Partner with Riverside Partners, a Boston-based, private equity investment firm. Mr. Kaufman has also served on the boards of directors of several smaller companies and helped them with their growth initiatives, including SIXNET, NDS Surgical Imaging, Maxvision, Vocollect, Kovio, One Laptop per Child, Quantum Medical Imaging, and Applied Precision. Mr. Kaufman was President and Chief Executive Officer of Avici Systems, a public telecommunications equipment company. Mr. Kaufman worked at Lucent Technologies, a telecommunication technology company subsequently acquired by Alcatel SA, as President of their Multiservice Core Networks Division and as Vice President and General Manager of Lucent’s core switching business.

Barbara Mowry

Ms. Barbara J. Mowry serves as Independent Director of Real Goods Solar Inc. Ms. Mowry has been an independent business consultant since March 2011. From January 2010 to February 2011 she served as Senior Vice President of Data Integration for Oracle Corporation, a provider of business hardware and software systems. From 2003 to December 2011, Ms. Mowry was the Chief Executive Officer of Silver Creek Systems, a provider of enterprise data usability software, until the company was acquired by Oracle Corporation. Mr. Mowry’s prior experiences include serving as: the President and Chief Executive Officer of Requisite Technology, a business-to-business e-commerce company specializing in the creation and management of electronic content and catalogs; an officer of Telecommunications, Inc., a cable television company; and an officer of UAL, Inc., an airline, from 1983 to 1990. Ms. Mowry also serves as a director of Gaiam.

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total

Jirka Rysavy

330,000

John Schaeffer

163,729

Kamyar Mofid

--

Tony DiPaolo

--

David Belluck

--

Pavel Bouska

--

Steven Kaufman

--

Barbara Mowry

--
As Of 30 Dec 2011

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