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Dr. Christian M. Gronet is the Chief Executive Officer, Director of Solyndra, Inc. He has served as Chief Executive Officer and as a director since he founded Solyndra in May 2005. Previously he spent 11 years at Applied Materials, Inc., a semiconductor manufacturing equipment company, most recently as Vice President and General Manager of the Transistor, Capacitor and Gate product group. Dr. Gronet founded G-Squared Semiconductor Corporation (acquired by Applied Materials). Dr. Gronet also worked at SERA Solar Corporation, where he pioneered new photovoltaic technologies. Dr. Gronet holds over 20 U.S. patents in thin film and related technologies. He holds a B.S. in materials science and a Ph.D. in semiconductor processing, both from Stanford University. |
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Mr. Wilbur G. Stover, Jr. is the Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Solyndra, Inc., since December 2007. From June 1989 until August 2007, Mr. Stover served in various capacities at Micron Technology, Inc., a manufacturer of semiconductor devices, most recently Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Stover holds a B.A. in business administration with an accounting emphasis from Washington State University. |
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Mr. Benjamin B. Bierman is Executive Vice President - Operations and Engineering of Solyndra, Inc. He joined the company in August 2006 and has served in positions of increasing responsibility since that time, most recently as Executive Vice President, Operations and Engineering since October 2009. Prior to joining the company, from March 2005 until August 2006, Mr. Bierman served as the Vice President-Business Management of Coherent, Inc. Mr. Bierman served as Managing Director at Lam Research Corporation from December 2003 to March 2005. Previously, during an eight-year tenure at Applied Materials, Mr. Bierman served as Director of Engineering and Technology and Managing Director of two product units. Mr. Bierman holds an associate’s degree in Engineering Technology from SUNY Farmingdale. |
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Mr. Kirk R. Roller is Vice President - Worldwide Sales of Solyndra, Inc., since June 2009. Mr. Roller was previously Vice President, Sales at SunEdison LLC, a solar integrator, where he was responsible for sales of photovoltaic projects, sales operations, and sales of renewable energy credits from July 2008 until June 2009. Prior to SunEdison, from April 1998 until July 2005, Mr. Roller was President and Chief Operating Officer of Emulex Corporation, a fiber channel based networking storage solutions company. At Emulex, he held various positions including Vice President, Worldwide Sales, Sr. Vice President, Sales and Marketing, prior to becoming President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to Emulex, Roller held various positions at Compaq Computer Corporation before taking the position of General Manager of the networking components division, which provided networking design support and sales for all network interface components. Prior to Compaq, Mr. Roller held the position of Sr. Vice President, Sales and Marketing at Advanced InterConnections Corp., and Vice President, Worldwide Sales for Thomas-Conrad Corporation. Mr. Roller holds a B.A. in business management from the University of Texas. |
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Dr. James K. Truman is Vice President - Marketing and Business Development of Solyndra, Inc. Dr. Truman was previously Vice President, Marketing at ReVera Incorporated, a provider of metrology used to monitor and control films and critical layers deployed in the semiconductor manufacturing process, from 2004 until 2005. Prior to ReVera, Dr. Truman was Director, Advanced Research Programs while on the Research Faculty, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, at the University of Florida from 2003 until 2004. From 1995 until 2003, Dr. Truman served in a number of executive capacities at Applied Materials, Inc., including General Manager of the Wet Clean Division and Chief Marketing Officer and Director of Strategic Technology & Marketing for the Transistor Gate and Substrate division. Dr. Truman holds a B.S. in metallurgical engineering and material science from the University of Notre Dame, and a M.S. and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Florida. |
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Mr. Thomas R. Baruch is Director of Solyndra, Inc., since February 2006. Mr. Baruch is the founder and a managing director of CMEA Ventures, a venture capital firm that was established in 1989 as an affiliated fund of New Enterprise Associates. Mr. Baruch is currently on the board of directors of Entropic Communications, Inc., and several private companies. Before starting CMEA Ventures, Mr. Baruch was a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Microwave Technology, Inc., a supplier of gallium arsenide integrated circuits. Prior to his employment with Microwave Technology, Inc., Mr. Baruch managed a dedicated venture fund at Exxon Corp, and was President of the Exxon Materials Division. Earlier in his career, Mr. Baruch worked as a patent attorney and remains a registered patent attorney. He is also both a member of the Executive Committee of the Council of Competitiveness and a member of the Steering Committee of the ESIS Initiative (Energy, Security, Innovation and Sustainability) of the Council on Competitiveness. Mr. Baruch is a member of the board of trustees of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the board of trustees of the Berkeley Institute of Synthetic Biology. Mr. Baruch holds a B.S. in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a J.D. from Capital University. |
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Dr. Winston S. Fu is Director of Solyndra, Inc., since February 2006. Dr. Fu is a Managing Member of several venture capital funds commonly referred to as U.S. Venture Partners, or USVP. He joined USVP following his selection as a Kauffman Fellow in Venture Capital in 1997. Previously, Dr. Fu served in technical and marketing roles at Vixel Corporation from 1991 until 1995. Previously, Dr. Fu researched and developed technologies in the areas of semiconductors, lasers and superconductors at Stanford University, Sandia National Laboratories and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He serves on the board of directors of Active-Semi International, Inc., CFX Battery, Inc., Maskless Lithography, Inc., Redwood Systems, Inc. and Teknovus, Inc. Dr. Fu holds a B.S. in physics from MIT, a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University and a M.S. in business administration from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. |
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Dr. James F. Gibbons is Director of Solyndra, Inc., since December 2005. Dr. Gibbons is currently Professor (Research) in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1957 and served as the Dean of the School Engineering from 1984 to 1996. He was the founder of SERA Solar Corporation, and he also co-founded G-Squared Semiconductor Corporation (which was acquired by Applied Materials, Inc.). Dr. Gibbons has served on boards of directors for both private and public companies, including Lockheed-Martin Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., El Paso Energy, SRI International and Raychem Corp. He has also served on committees working with the Presidential Science Advisor in the Nixon, Reagan and Bush administrations. Dr. Gibbons is a Life Fellow of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Gibbons holds a B.S. from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. |
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Mr. Anup M. Jacob is Director of Solyndra, Inc., since July 2007. Mr. Jacob is a Founding Partner of Virgin Green Fund. Prior to Virgin Green Fund, Mr. Jacob was a partner in TPG’s Aqua Fund, which focused on late stage investments in water, clean technology and renewable resources companies, from 1999 until 2007. Mr. Jacob has served on the board of directors of several public and private companies, including Wildcat Discovery Technologies, Inc., Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd, Metering Technology Corporation and Scanship Environmental Solutions. Prior to TPG, Mr. Jacob was an investment banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. in the Global Power and Merchant Banking groups. Mr. Jacob holds a B.A., with honors, in economics from the University of Chicago. |
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Dr. Dan Maydan is Director of Solyndra, Inc., since June 2006. Dr. Maydan was President of Applied Materials, Inc. from 1994 to 2003 and a member of that company’s board of directors. Before joining Applied Materials, Dr. Maydan spent 13 years managing new technology development at Bell Laboratories. In 1998, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Maydan serves on the board of directors of Infinera Corporation and Electronics For Imaging, Inc. Dr. Maydan holds a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. |
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Mr. Jameson J. McJunkin is Director of Solyndra, Inc., since September 2009. Mr. McJunkin is a Founding Partner at Madrone Capital Partners, L.L.C., an investment firm based in Menlo Park, CA that was formed in 2005. Mr. McJunkin leads Madrone’s efforts in sustainability and alternative energy, and currently serves on the board of directors of Achates Power Inc., Enphase Energy, Inc., Fluidic Energy, and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Prior to Madrone, he was a technology growth capital investor at TA Associates, Inc., a private equity firm, from 2000 until 2005. Mr. McJunkin holds an A.B. with honors from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. |
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Mr. Steven R. Mitchell is Director of Solyndra, Inc., since November 2008. Mr. Mitchell is Managing Director of Argonaut Private Equity, a venture capital and buyout firm dedicated to financing and growing emerging market leaders. Mr. Mitchell currently sits on the Boards of Directors of Global Client Solutions, LLC, Westec Intelligent Surveillance Inc., Yulex Corporation, Solyndra, StepStone Group LLC, Southwest United Industries, Inc., Green Hills Software, Inc., Newmans Valve, Ltd. and Aspen Aerogels, Inc. Prior to joining Argonaut in November 2004, Mr. Mitchell was a Principal in both Radical Incubation LP and 2929 Entertainment, where he led acquisitions and investments primarily focused in the media, sports and entertainment sectors. He previously was a corporate attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP specializing in mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Mitchell is a graduate of Baylor University and the University of San Diego School of Law. |
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Mr. Alex O'Cinneide is Director of Solyndra, Inc., since July 2007. Mr. O’Cinneide is the Head of Venture Investments of the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar). Prior to joining Masdar in January 2007, he was a Managing Partner in Quorum European Partners, an energy technology focused venture capital firm, from 2004 until 2007. He also worked at Unisys Corp. in the Business Transformation group. He started his career in two technology companies before joining KPMG Consulting, where he was a director in the Strategy and Private Equity Advisory group (London & New York). He presently serves on the board of directors of EnerTech Environmental, Inc., DuraTherm, Inc. and Enviromena Power Systems LLC. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Trinity College Dublin, a MSc. in Philosophy from the London School of Economics and a MSc. in Finance from the London Business School. |
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Mr. David J. Prend is Director of Solyndra, Inc., October 2006. Mr. Prend is the Managing General Partner of RockPort Capital Partners, a venture capital firm. Prior to founding RockPort Capital Partners, Mr. Prend held the positions of Director and Managing Director at Salomon Brothers from June 1990 until January 1997, and headed the Global Energy Investment Banking Group. Previously, he served in a number of executive capacities for Shearson Lehman’s Natural Resources Investment Banking Group, Amoco and Bechtel Corporation. Mr. Prend currently serves on the boards of directors of Achates Power, Inc., Aspen Aerogels, Inc., Aspen Products Group, Inc., Hycrete Technologies, Inc., Satcon Technology Corporation and SustainX, Inc. He is also a member of the board of directors of the National Venture Capital Association. Mr. Prend holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. |
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Mr. Raymond J. Sims is Director of Solyndra, Inc., since December 2008. Mr. Sims is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Financial Engines, Inc, an independent registered investment advisor. Prior to joining Financial Engines, he served at Raychem Corporation, a technology company, as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer from 1993 until 1999, as Vice President and Treasurer from 1985 to 1993 and as Director, Internal Audit from 1982 to 1984. Mr. Sims holds an M.B.A from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. in business and economics from Lehigh University. |
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Mr. John Walecka is Director of Solyndra, Inc., since February 2006. Mr. Walecka is a founding partner of Redpoint Ventures, which was established in 1999. Prior to founding Redpoint Ventures, Mr. Walecka was a general partner with Brentwood Venture Capital, a firm he joined in 1984. Mr. Walecka has also served as a member of the board of directors of Entropic Communications, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, since September 2001. Mr. Walecka served as director of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC) and is currently a director of Fortinet, Inc. and the Stanford Business School Venture Capital Trust. Mr. Walecka holds a B.S. and an M.S. in engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford Business School or Stanford GSB). |
