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Gang Wang is a non-executive director of our company. He became our non-executive director in July
2006. Mr. Wang has, since 2002, been a director and chief representative in China of Natixis Private Equity
Asia Limited, beneficially wholly owned by Natixis Banques Populaires. Mr. Wang held various senior
financial management positions in a number of technology and manufacturing companies from 1999 to 2002
in New Zealand and China. Mr. Wang received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the
Hefei University of Technology of China in 1989 and an MBA degree from the Massey University in New
Zealand in 1995.
Louis T. Hsieh becomes an independent director of our company on the date of this prospectus.
Mr. Hsieh has been the chief financial officer and a member of the board of directors of New Oriental
Education & Technology Group, a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, since 2005. Mr. Hsieh
was the chief financial officer of ARIO Data Networks, Inc. in San Jose, California, from April 2004 until he
joined New Oriental Education & Technology Group. Prior to that, Mr. Hsieh was a managing director for the
private equity firm of Darby Asia Investors (HK) Limited from 2002 to 2003. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Hsieh
was managing director and Asia-Pacific tech/media/telecoms head of UBS Capital Asia Pacific, the private
equity division of UBS AG. From 1997 to 2000 Mr. Hsieh was a technology investment banker at JPMorgan
in San Francisco, California, where he was a vice president, and Credit Suisse First Boston in Palo Alto,
California, where he was an associate. From 1990 to 1996, Mr. Hsieh was a corporate and securities attorney
at White & Case LLP in Los Angeles and is a member of the California bar. Mr. Hsieh holds a B.S. degree in
engineering from Stanford University, an MBA degree from the Harvard Business School, and a J.D. degree
from the University of California at Berkeley.
Executive Officers
Jack Lai is an executive vice president, chief financial officer and secretary of our company. He joined
our company in August 2006. Mr. Lai has over 20 years of experience in finance, strategic planning and
corporate management. Prior to joining our company, Mr. Lai served as the chief financial officer and vice
president of Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. He was the vice president of finance and administration and the
chief financial officer of Aplus Flash Technology, Inc. in San Jose, California from 2000 to 2003. He served as
vice president of finance and administration, chief financial officer and general manager of Wirex Corporation,
Inc. in Portland, Oregon, from 1998 to 2000. Mr. Lai graduated from Tamkang University with a bachelor's
degree in business administration in 1976, from Chinese Culture University with an MBA degree in 1978 and
from San Jose State University with an MBA degree in 1982.
Nicola Sarno is the senior vice president of manufacturing and the plant manager of our company. He
joined our company in April 2006. Mr. Sarno has over 20 years of experience in silicon manufacturing, having
held multiple positions in the areas of production, process engineering and strategic material supply globally.
He was a manufacturing director, engineering manager of crystal growing and operations/strategic materials
manager of MEMC from 1985 to 2002 and a production manager of S.E.H. America, Inc. from 1981 to 1985.
Mr. Sarno received a diploma in mechanical engineering from Mander College in 1971.
Yuepeng Wan is the chief technology officer of our company. He joined our company in February 2007.
Dr. Wan has over 15 years of experience in research and development in silicon and materials engineering.
Prior to joining our company, Dr. Wan was a research and development manager at GT Solar in New
Hampshire from October 2005 to February 2007 in charge of DSS furnace research and development. Prior to
that, he was a research associate of the materials crystal division at Saint-Gobain Northboro R&D Center in
Massachusetts from January 2005 to October 2005. From April 2000 to January 2005, he was a senior
applications engineer at GT Solar in New Hampshire responsible for design and development of crystal
growth furnaces. Dr. Wan received a bachelor of science degree in materials engineering from University of
Science & Technology of China in 1986, a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from
University of Science & Technology of China in 1989 and a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from
Aachen University of Technology of Germany in 1997.
Rongqiang Cui is the head of our research and development laboratory operated jointly with Shanghai
Jiaotong University. He is also a professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University. Professor Cui joined our company
in September 2005 as director of our Shanghai Jiaotong University LDK Laboratory. Professor Cui began
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