中文 (Chinese)
Board of Directors & Senior Management
Mr. Yonghua Lu Mr. Yinshang Gu Mr. Thomas J. Toy
Mr. Terry McCarthy Mr. Ernst A. Bütler Dr. Peter Xie
Mr. John Breckenridge Dr. David N.K. Wang Dr. Rongqiang Cui
Mr. Gareth Kung Mr. Zhoumiao Gao

 

Mr. Yonghua Lu

Mr. Yonghua Lu is the Chairman of the Board, 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.

Mr. Yinshang Gu

Mr. Yinshang 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

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

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

Mr. Ernst A. Bütler has served as our independent director since November 2006. He also serves as the chairman of our compensation committee and as a member of our audit committee. Mr. Bütler has been an independent board member/consultant and owner of E.A. Bütler Management in Zürich since 2005. His other current positions include board member of Bank Frey & Co. AG, Zürich, member of the board of Frey Group Holding, Zurich, chairman of the board of Alegra Capital Ltd., Zürich, chairman of the board of AA-Partners, Zürich, chairman of the board of SACA, Swiss Alternative Capital AG, Zurich, member of the board of Sunfilm Power Ltd., Germany, and member of the advisory board of XBiotech Inc., Austin/Texas. From 1999 to 2005, he was a partner of Partners Group in Zug, the largest independent Asset Manager of Alternative Investments in Europe. Mr. Bütler spent over 25 years with Credit Suisse and Credit Suisse First Boston, with his last assignment being Managing Director and co-head of Corporate and Investment Banking Switzerland. He received a bachelor's degree from the School of Economics and Business Administration in Zürich in 1973, and attended post-graduate programs at the University of Massachusetts in the United States, the European Institute of Business Administration in Paris, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Peter Xie

Dr. Peter Xie is President and Chief Executive Officer of Solarfun. Dr. Xie has served as President of Solarfun since March 2009. Prior to joining Solarfun, Dr. Xie worked at NeoPhotonics Corporation as Vice President of Engineering and Product Development from 2002 to 2006 in California, and General Manager of Neophotonics China from 2006 in ShenZhen China. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Engineering of Finisar Corp in 2002, Director and later on Vice President of Passive Device Engineering of New Focus Corp in California from 1998 to 2002; Project Manager and later on Product Line Manager of JDS Uniphase Corp in California from 1995 to 1998. He began his career as Engineer at IMRA America in 1991, Candela Laser Corp from 1992 to 1993 and Los Alamos National Lab from 1993 to 1995.

Dr. Xie earned his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 1986, Master's degree of Physics and Doctor's Degree of Applied Physics from University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and partially completed the MBA program at UC extension at Santa Cruz.

Mr. John Breckenridge

Mr. Breckenridge was appointed as a Director of Solarfun in September 2009, and was actively involved in the Company's day-to-day activities and strategic direction since December 2007 in his capacity as Managing Director of Solarfun's largest shareholder, Good Energies II LP. He has been a Managing Director of Solarfun's largest shareholder, Good Energies II LP, since December 2007. He joined Good Energies from CCMP Capital Advisors, formerly known as J.P. Morgan Partners, where he served as Operating Partner and Managing Director in both Tokyo and New York. During his seven years at the firm, Mr. Breckenridge was responsible for leading many of the firm's portfolio companies, as well as advising on all aspects of the purchase and sales of investments in the U.S., Asia and Europe. While at CCMP Capital Advisors, Mr. Breckenridge led the development of companies in the renewable energy, traditional energy, industrial service, manufacturing and chemicals sectors, among others. He also provided guidance to companies expanding into China or other Asian countries.

Prior to joining JP Morgan Partners in Tokyo, Mr. Breckenridge was Chief Operating Officer of Densei Lambda KK, a publicly traded Japanese corporation. Before that he was the manager of several large divisions of Invensys plc and Exide Electronics in the US. Earlier in his career he held engineering, sales and general management positions at AT&T, International Power Machines, Inc., and Strafor Facom SA.

Dr. David N.K. Wang

Dr. Wang is currently the chairman of the board of Ether Optronics Inc. and an overseas advisor to the Ministry of Science and Technology of The People's Republic of China. He is also an advisor to the Greater China Innovation and Entrepreneurship project of Stanford University in the United States. He was a member of the board of directors of Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) and chairman of its China Regional Advisory Board.

From September 2005 to June 2007, Dr. Wang served as the Chief Executive Officer of Huahong Group and concurrently chairman of Huahong NEC, a subsidiary of Huahong Group. Prior to joining Hua Hong Group, Dr. Wang served as executive vice president of Applied Materials and president of Applied Materials Asia. Dr. Wang was responsible for Applied Materials' business strategy, planning and execution throughout Asia.

Dr. Wang has also been a member of, chaired and helped found a variety of councils, committees and associations related to technology and Asia-Pacific business and economy. He received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Rongqiang Cui

Rongqiang Cui is a professor and Ph.D. candidates' supervisor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Professor Cui is also the deputy head of the Solar Power Generation and Refrigeration Research Center of the Ministry of Education, executive director of the Chinese Solar Energy Society and president of the Shanghai Solar Energy Society.

Professor Cui joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1996 and worked as the head of the Solar Energy Institute from 1996 to 2006. He previously worked as an assistant tutor, lecturer, professor and head of the solar energy research center of the physics department of Xi'an Jiao Tong University from 1964 to 1996. He graduated from Xi'an Jiao Tong University with a degree in engineering physics in 1964.

Mr. Gareth Kung

Mr. Gareth Kung is Chief Financial Officer of Solarfun. Mr. Kung joined Solarfun in November 2009 from Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation where he first worked as group treasurer and subsequently as group controller, primarily in charge of treasury and financing operations, financial reporting and planning, budget control, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and PRC and international tax planning. Prior to that, Mr. Kung served as an investment manager at AIG Investment Corporation in Hong Kong, where he was responsible for the origination, structuring and execution of private equity transactions in the Asia Pacific region. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Kung worked in the corporate banking and capital markets division of ABN Amro Bank N.V., where he executed debt financed transactions for corporations based in Hong Kong and China. Mr. Kung worked at UOB Asia Limited from 1995 to 1997 and executed IPO and M&A transactions for Hong Kong-based corporations. Between 1987 and 1993, Mr. Kung held positions as a senior internal auditor at the Royal Bank of Canada and senior auditor at Pricewaterhouse Coopers.

Mr. Kung earned his MBA from The University of Western Ontario and his bachelor degree in Accountancy from National University of Singapore. He is a Certified Public Accountant in Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore as well as a Fellow of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. In addition, he is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Mr. Zhoumiao Gao

Mr. Zhoumiao Gao is Chief Operating Officer, in charge of manufacturing productions of Linyang China and Yangguang Solar. He joined us in September 2007 as our vice president of operations and served as our director on an interim basis from August 2008 to March 2009. Before joining us, Mr. Gao had been working in the semiconductor industry for more than 18 years. He joined Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation in 1989 and held various positions including engineering manager, manufacturing manager, and vice president of operations. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Fudan University and an EMBA degree from China European International Business School.