Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (ASTI)

Paul Warley has been chief executive of Ascent Solar since May 2, 2023. He arrived as chief financial officer in December 2022, moved up in May 2023, and was elected to the board in December 2023. His background is corporate turnarounds and restructuring rather than solar manufacturing: he was president of the advisory firm Warley & Company LLC from 2015 to 2022, a managing director and region manager at GE Capital from 1997 to 2011, and before that a senior vice president at Bank of America and Bankers Trust from 1984 to 1997. 123

Jin Jo has been chief financial officer since May 2023, having joined in June 2021 as financial controller with more than 20 years in accounting behind her, including a spell as an inspection specialist at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the body that inspects auditors. Bobby Gulati has been chief operating officer since May 2023 and has been in the building far longer, arriving in February 2012 as head equipment engineer with more than 30 years in engineering and manufacturing. The company is small enough that the chief operations officer also leads the cybersecurity function and reports to the chief executive. Both officers first appear on the insider record in 2023. 45678

The board has five members, four of them independent under Nasdaq's listing standards: David Peterson, Forrest Reynolds, Louis Berezovsky and Gregory Thompson. Peterson has been a director since December 2020 and chairman since September 2022, and since January 2024 has been chief executive of Clean H2, Inc., a distributor of hydrogen electrolyzers in Colorado. Reynolds and Berezovsky joined in September 2022, Thompson in April 2023. Reynolds is a restructuring specialist who managed a 1.0 billion dollar Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization for a gaming company and now runs an investment firm; Berezovsky and Thompson are career finance officers, Thompson a four-time public company chief financial officer. 91011121314

As of December 31, 2025 the company had 14 full-time and 4 part-time employees. It has filed with the SEC since 2006, and seventeen people appear on its insider record, seven of whom have filed in the last fifteen months. 15816