Canadian Solar Inc. (CSIQ)

Shawn (Xiaohua) Qu founded Canadian Solar in Guelph, Ontario in 2001 and, by the annual report's account, has been its chairman and chief executive officer ever since. Before that he worked at ATS Automation Tooling Systems and its French subsidiary Photowatt International, and earlier as a research scientist at Ontario Hydro; he holds a doctorate in materials science from the University of Toronto. With his wife, Hanbing Zhang, he held 20.7% of the common shares. 12345

The other officers mostly rose inside the company. Colin Parkin, a director since December 2025, is president and still runs e-STORAGE, the utility-scale battery storage division; earlier he was a vice president of the project arm now called Recurrent Energy. Xinbo Zhu has been chief financial officer since May 2024, having joined in 2014 as special assistant to the chief executive. Dylan Marx became chief operating officer in December 2025, after joining in 2013 in project management. Yu Chen has been lead general counsel since December 2023 and chief compliance officer since March 2025. 6789101112

The independent directors include Harry Ruda, a University of Toronto engineering professor, on the board since July 2011; Andrew Wong, a former banker, since August 2014; Lauren Templeton, founder of the investment firm Templeton & Phillips Capital Management, since January 2020; and Leslie Chang, the lead independent director, since September 2020. Yuan Qu joined the board in June 2025 and helps build the US operations as a vice president of a US subsidiary. The insider filings this site holds begin in March 2026, when all eleven people on that record first filed; in them, Colin Parkin's newest title is chief executive officer and Shawn Qu's is chief technology officer, which differs from the annual report's table. 1314151617181920

At the end of 2025 the company had 12,587 full-time employees, down from 17,113 a year earlier and 22,234 at the end of 2023. About three in five, 7,314 people, work in manufacturing and operations, and 1,318 in research, product development and engineering. By place, 2,061 work in the United States, 9,187 in Asia Pacific including China and 1,339 in Europe and other regions; none is covered by a collective bargaining agreement. The filing names workforce reduction among the savings that eased the pressure on its margins. 2122232425