First Solar, Inc. (FSLR)

Mark Widmar has been chief executive since July 2016. He joined in April 2011 as chief financial officer, after serving as finance chief of GrafTech International, a maker of carbon and graphite materials. Alexander Bradley, with the company since May 2008 and once its head of treasury and project finance, has been chief financial officer since October 2016. Georges Antoun, who arrived in July 2012 as chief operating officer after senior roles at Cisco Systems, Redback Networks and Ericsson, has been chief commercial officer since July 2016. 12345

The factories are run by long-serving insiders. Kuntal Kumar Verma, with First Solar since 2002, has been chief manufacturing officer since November 2022; Michael Koralewski, there since 2006, became chief supply chain officer the same month; and Patrick Buehler, also there since 2006, has been chief product officer since December 2022. Markus Gloeckler, who joined in 2005 and led the transfer of General Electric's thin film technology after the 2013 purchase of its intellectual property, has been chief technology officer since November 2020. Jason Dymbort, general counsel since July 2020, also directs the company's advocacy on trade and industrial policy. 6789101112131415

Michael Ahearn chairs the board. He was chief executive from August 2000 to September 2009 and again, on an interim basis, from October 2011 to May 2012, has been chair since July 2012, and runs the venture firm True North Venture Partners. William Post, the retired chair and chief executive of Pinnacle West Capital, is lead independent director; Michael Sweeney has sat on the board since 2003 and Paul Stebbins since 2006, and Curtis Morgan, a former chief executive of Vistra, was nominated in 2026. The insider filings this site holds, newer than the proxy statement, give Ahearn's latest title as chairman and interim chief executive officer. 1617181920

At the end of 2025 First Solar had about 7,900 associates, its word for full and part-time employees, most of them in the United States, Malaysia, India and Vietnam. Only those in Vietnam and Sweden are represented by unions, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor and the Engineers of Sweden. 2122