Global Solar Energy competitors

President and Chief Executive Officer at Entegris, a $1.2 billion global leader of specialty materials and contamination control solutions for the electronics industry. By driving open innovation, a relentless pursuit of operational excellence and a unique customer engagement model, Entegris has emerged as one of the largest, fastest growing specialty chemical companies focused on serving the electronics ecosystem. Our success rests on the increasing importance of the solutions we are developing, the ability to effectively integrate the businesses we acquire and a strong set of corporate values. We refer to these shared values as PACE: People and teamwork, Accountability and integrity, Creativity and innovation; and dedication to Excellence. Our global teams live and share these values as much as they share a common desire to exceed our customers' expectations. At Entegris, attitude is just as important as skills. In other words, how you get things done is just as important as what you get done.

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.

Paul Verbeten is a Chief Executive Officer at Perfecseal Inc. and is based in New London, Wisconsin.

David Sindelar is a Board Member at Viasystems Group and Chief Executive Officer at Viasystems Group. He has experience at Arthur Andersen LLP and has worked as Senior VP/CFO at International Wire Group Inc., President/CEO at Hanley & Partners, and Senior VP/CEO/CFO at INTL WIRE HOLDING COMPANY. David works or has worked as TRUSTEE at Saint Louis Univ and Chief Executive Officer at The Courtesy Bar. He attended SLU between 1975 and 1979.

Robert Belcher is a Vice Chairman/President/CEO at Memry Corporation and Board Member at Associated Asset Mgmt Inc and is based in Greater New York City Area. He has experience at Kendall College and has worked as Board Member at Memry Corporation; Consultant at Bain & Company; and Supply Officer at Succeed to Lead, LLC. Robert works or has worked as Managing Director at Associated Asset Mgmt Inc and Supply Officer at DOD United States Department of Navy. He studied at Harvard Business School between 1974 and 1976, Vanderbilt University between 1970 and 1971, and Vanderbilt University between 1966 and 1970.

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

Brad Pedersen is a Chief Executive Officer at ARMORWORKS ENTERPRISES INC and Board Member at BREEZE-EASTERN CORP and is based in New, York. He has experience at Boeing and has worked as Project Program Manager at Sikorsky Aircraft, President/CEO at BREEZE-EASTERN CORP, and President at Airborne Systems Group Ltd. Brad studied at Arizona State University between 1992 and 1993.