MANAGEMENT

Mr. Xiang Xu is our chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors. He has significant expertise across the solar industry and corporate management. He has served as a director of Daqo New Energy Corp. (NYSE: DQ) since our incorporation in November 2007, and as vice chairman of the board from June 2022 to August 2023. He is also the president of Daqo Group since 2006 and currently holds directorship positions with 25 subsidiaries of Daqo Group. Prior to these roles, Mr. Xu served as the general manager of Jiangsu Changjiang Electric Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Daqo Group, from January 2000 through May 2006. Mr. Xu received his EMBA degree from Nanjing University in 2004.

Mr. Ming Yang is our chief financial officer since July 2015. Mr. Yang has extensive experiences in corporate finance, capital markets, business development and corporate strategy. Before joining our Company, Mr. Yang was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he specialized in the cleantech and solar sectors. His work focused on areas such as corporate strategy, market strategy, performance management, risk management and growth initiatives. Prior to McKinsey, he was the vice president of business development and corporate communications at JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of solar products based in China, where he was responsible for corporate strategy, business development, strategic partnerships and investor relations. Prior to JA Solar, Mr. Yang was an analyst covering the renewable energy sector at Coatue Management, a multibillion-dollar hedge fund based in New York. Before that, he was vice president and senior China analyst at Piper Jaffray based in New York and Shanghai, where he was a core member of the global cleantech team and covered the solar energy and semiconductor materials sectors. Mr. Yang holds an MBA degree from Cornell University with concentration in finance and strategy. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.