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Mr. Widmar became CEO of First Solar in July 2016. He joined First Solar in April 2011 as chief financial officer and served as First Solar’s chief accounting officer from February 2012 through June 2015. Mr. Widmar has also served as a director on the board of the general partner of 8point3 Energy Partners LP (“8point3 Energy Partners”), then a publicly-traded yieldco and affiliate of First Solar. Prior to joining First Solar, Mr. Widmar served as chief financial officer of GrafTech International Ltd., a leading global manufacturer of advanced carbon and graphite materials, from May 2006 through March 2011, as well as president, Engineered Solutions from January 2011 through March 2011. Prior to joining GrafTech, Mr. Widmar served as corporate controller of NCR Inc. from 2005 to 2006, and was a business unit chief financial officer for NCR from November 2002 to his appointment as controller. He also served as a division controller at Dell, Inc. from August 2000 to November 2002 prior to joining NCR. Mr. Widmar also held various financial and managerial positions with Lucent Technologies Inc., Allied Signal, Inc., and Bristol Myers/Squibb, Inc. He began his career in 1987 as an accountant with Ernst & Young. Mr. Widmar holds a Bachelor of Science in business accounting and a Masters of Business Administration from Indiana University.

I believe we need to and can transition to clean energy faster and better. My passion and expertise is commercializing the technologies and developing the projects that will do that. I began my career as an attorney with Bennett Jones, learning how to develop, structure and finance large, complex energy projects and went on to help bring to reality over $12 billion in power projects around the world.My legal work took me to California in 2000, during the California Energy Crisis and the peak of the dot-com bubble and there I fell in love with the potential of new technology to change the world and the challenge of making that happen. I left behind the practice of law and became an entrepreneur.I had the opportunity, which I seized, to lead an early stage energy storage company, in the very early days of the energy storage industry. We had to not only sell utilities on our Ice Bear thermal energy storage system, we had to sell utilities and policy makers on the need for energy storage. We were pioneers and it's true what they say about pioneers getting arrows in the back, but we endured and when I retired as CEO in 2018 we had built the leading thermal energy storage company in the world, with the highest revenues in its 14 year history.My retirement turned out to be short lived as in late 2018, my partners and I launched Bakken Midstream which is unleashing the clean energy potential of North Dakota. I have been able to help a number of other startups including Nelumbo, a nanotechnology, advanced materials venture, Plus Power, a leading battery storage project developer and OGL Engineering, a leader in geomatics. Ever since my wife was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at age 40, I have done all I can as a volunteer to help find a cure for this disease, including volunteer leadership roles with JDRF and raising tens of millions for the cause, and the job's not yet done. Specialties: Start ups; leadership; management; public speaking; Board of Directors and governance; fundraising and financing; negotiating, structuring and closing complex transactions; law; disruptive technologies; clean tech; nanotechnology; biotech; restructuring and workouts

A founder of two global energy companies, Mike Gordon is considered the father of the ''energy reduction'' asset class, a founding father of the demand response industry, a critical player in expanding and enhancing the Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) market, and a key architect of new financing solutions for the energy efficiency marketplace. Mike has been recognized with numerous awards. He was named a Top Ten Energy Financier by New York Energy Week and Breaking Energy; selected as Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year; recognized as a City & State Reports Social Responsibility honoree; and honored twice for his leadership by the Local Energy Aggregation network (LEAN). Mike also frequently serves as counsel to U.S. and European governmental bodies and regulators, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the European Commission, and the United Nations' Conference of Parties on Climate Change. As CEO of Joule Assets, Mike leads each of Joule's business units and oversees its overarching mission to develop, enhance, and catalyze energy reduction markets. In 2015, Mike was elected Chair of Sustainable Westchester's Board of Directors. Under his leadership, Sustainable Westchester designed and implemented New York State's first CCA program. In 2000, Mike founded ConsumerPowerline (CPower), generally recognized as the first demand response aggregator in the U.S. Specializing in end users in deregulated wholesale electricity markets, CPower built roughly 1,000 MWs of demand response internationally and, until its sale to Constellation Energy Group (NYSE: CEG) for a 2-3x return to investors over a less than three-year investment period, remained the largest provider of short notice demand response in the world. Previously, Mike negotiated ''first of their kind'' collective buying contracts for consumers in Washington DC, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts. Mike holds an M.A. in Public Administration from Harvard's Kennedy School, and M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton.