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Maarten Henderson
Chairman
Maarten Henderson, a Dutch national, graduated in economics from Hamburg University. He started his career at multinational electronics company Philips in 1972, where he held various commercial and financial positions, ending as member of the board of management and chief financial officer of Philips Kommunikations Industrie AG in 1996. After that, he was chief financial officer and member of the board of management of Schmalbach Lubeca AG, an international packaging company listed in Germany, from 1996 to 1999, of KPN N.V., the Dutch telecommunications incumbent listed in Amsterdam and New York from 2000 to 2004, and of Nuon N.V., a Dutch energy company, from 2004 to 2006. In 2006 and early 2007, he worked for mobile service provider debitel AG as interim chief financial officer and head of the divestment team. From April 2007 to October 2007 he worked as member of the board of management and chief financial officer for Getronics N.V., an international ICT services company listed in Amsterdam. In 2008 he also worked as a "B" director on the management board of Hagemeyer NV, a company then listed in Amsterdam. In July 2009 Maarten Henderson was appointed as a member of the supervisory board and in July 2011 he was appointed as chairman of the supervisory board of freenet AG, the biggest networkindependent telecommunications provider in Germany.
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Dr Iain Dorrity
Chief Executive Officer
Iain Dorrity has a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Exeter University. He joined the Company in 1986 and became responsible for sales and marketing in 1988. He was a member of the MBO team that acquired the Crystalox business in 1994 and was appointed to the Boards of both Crystalox Limited and Crystalox Solar Limited at that time. Subsequently, following the merger of PV Silicon GmbH and Crystalox Limited, he became a member of the Board of PV Crystalox Solar GmbH in 2002 and a director of the Company on its formation in December 2006. Dr Dorrity has over 25 years' experience in crystal growth and semiconductor materials with an emphasis latterly on multicrystalline silicon technology. Prior to joining Crystalox, he spent eight years working in research and in industry with General Electric Company.
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Dr Hubert Aulich
Executive Director, German Operations
Hubert Aulich has a PhD in Physical Chemistry from NYU, New York City, USA. Dr Aulich founded PV Silicon GmbH in 1997 with his partner Dr Friedrich Wilhelm Schulze. In 2002 he became a member of the Board of PV Crystalox Solar GmbH where he had responsibility for the German operations including the production and sales of wafers and was appointed as a director of the Company on 21 May 2007. In 2008 he became chairman of the five year long project SolarValley Mitteldeutschland which involves 35 companies, five universities and nine research institutes working on the entire crystalline silicon value chain with the aim of reducing the cost of solar electricity to below that of conventional power. Prior to founding PV Silicon GmbH, Dr Aulich worked for Siemens Solar Group. Dr Aulich joined the Central Research Laboratories of Siemens AG in Munich, Germany, in 1974 where he worked in various positions in the field of optical fibre communication and photovoltaics. From 1988 to 1991 he was managing director at PV Electric, a joint venture of Siemens Solar GmbH, Germany, and Arco Solar, USA, where he was responsible for the commercialisation of amorphous silicon thin film technology. In 1992 he became managing director at Siemens Solar GmbH where he was responsible for technology of thin film and crystalline silicon solar cells. He was senior vice president for technology and research for the Siemens Solar Group responsible for research and development in thin film and crystalline silicon solar cells as well as for systems application for Germany, USA and Japan.
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Dr Peter J Finnegan (DBA, MBA, FCMA)
Chief Financial Officer
Peter Finnegan has a Doctorate in Corporate Finance from Henley Business School, an MBA from Manchester Business School and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. He has been involved in the Group's management since 1985 when he became Company Secretary of Crystalox whilst he was Financial Director of its holding company at that time, Elkem (Holdings) Limited. He was appointed to the Board of Crystalox Solar Limited in 1994 and was a director of Crystalox Limited from 1994 to 2009. He was appointed as a director of the Company on its formation in December 2006. Dr Finnegan has overall Group responsibility for finance, accounting, planning, financial control, legal matters and investor relations. Prior to joining the Group he held a number of senior managerial positions in large international manufacturing companies.
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Michael D Parker CBE
Non-executive Director
Mike Parker was born in Liverpool and has a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester and an MBA from the Manchester Business School. He began his career with Dow in 1968 and became president and chief executive officer of The Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan, USA from November 2000 to December 2002 and a member of the company's board of directors from 1995 to February 2003. During his time at Dow he gained extensive international experience with over 30 years of living and working in the USA, United Kingdom, Switzerland and Hong Kong. He was appointed as group chief executive of British Nuclear Fuels Limited on 1 August 2003; at the end of June 2009 he finished this role following the successful dismantling and privatisation of the business. He joined the Invensys plc board as a non-executive director in May 2006 and subsequently became the senior independent director in December 2006. In April 2008 he became chairman of Liverpool's new economic development and regeneration company, Liverpool Vision. He joined the Board at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents as a trustee in December 2009. In September 2010 he was appointed to the board of directors of the Canadian based SNC-Lavalin Group. In June 2011 he was appointed as chairman of Street League.
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John Sleeman
Non-executive Director
John Sleeman graduated in Physics from the University of Durham and started his career at Deloitte & Touche in 1970 where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant before moving in 1975 to Samuel Montagu where he qualified as a Chartered Banker and held various corporate and project finance advisory roles, becoming a director in 1989. Following its acquisition by HSBC, he held directorships with a number of companies within the HSBC Group, and from 2000 to 2003 was managing director, head of international team, corporate finance. After that, John was an independent director of OSJC Power Machines (from 2003 to 2008), the Russian power generation equipment manufacturer 25% owned by Siemens AG, an independent director of JSC Open Investments (from 2005 to 2009), the Russian real estate group, and was an advisor for two years to Emerging Markets Group, specialising in structured financial solutions and strategic advice. Since 2006 he has been a founding partner of S.P. Angel Corporate Finance LLP.
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