Board of Directors

Shaker Sadasivam has served as a member of our Board of Directors since January 2017. Shaker has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Auragent Bioscience, LLC since co-founding the company in 2018. From 2014 to 2016, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of SunEdison Semiconductor LLC. From 2009 to 2013, Shaker served as Executive Vice President and President of SunEdison. He has served on the Board of Directors of II-VI Incorporated since 2016. Shaker also serves on the Board of Directors of the private companies Sfara, Inc., Dclimate Inc. and Sea Pharma, LLC, and is a member of the board of trustees of the Chesterfield Montessori School in Chesterfield, Missouri. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Madras and Indian Institute of Technology, a Master of Business Administration degree from Washington University and a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University.

David Springer is one of our co-founders and has served as a member of our Board of Directors since January 2017 and as our Executive Vice President, Field Operations since May 2019. David previously served as our Chief Executive Officer from January 2017 to May 2019. From 2013 to 2016, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Solar Materials at SunEdison. From 2011 to 2013, David was the Vice President of Manufacturing at MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. From 2005 to 2011, he held multiple leadership positions, including Vice President of Manufacturing Operations, at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. David has also served as a Navy submarine officer. David has a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the United States Naval Academy.

Ahmad Chatila is one of our co-founders and has served as a member of our Board of Directors since January 2017. Ahmad currently serves as the Managing Partner of Fenice Investment Group, a position he has held since 2017. He is the co-founder and has served on the Board of Directors of NexGen Power Systems Inc. and Dimension, since 2017 and 2018, respectively. Ahmad was also the transformation architect at Enphase Energy Inc. from 2017 to 2020. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of SunEdison from 2009 to 2016, which filed for bankruptcy. Prior to joining SunEdison, Ahmad served as Executive Vice President of the Memory and Imaging Division of Cypress from 2005 to 2009. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the private companies Akra Inc., Ohmium, Inc., Biggie Inc. and SunEdison Infrastructure Limited. Ahmad previously served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of TerraForm Power, Inc. and TerraForm Global Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University, a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University and has completed the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University.

William Aldeen “Dean” Priddy, Jr. has served as a member of our Board of Directors since November 2020. Dean began his career at Analog Devices where he held positions with increasing responsibility in finance and marketing from 1986 to 1991. In 1991, he joined RFMD, a supplier of radio frequency integrated circuits for the various wireless markets and served as Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Vice President of Administration and Secretary from July 1997 to December of 2014 when RFMD merged with TriQuint Semiconductor forming Qorvo. Dean served as Chief Integration Officer of the merger and as Executive Vice President of Administration until his retirement from Qorvo in 2015. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro since 2015. Dean currently serves as a business and financial advisor to NovaCyte, an early-stage company focused on laboratory grown corneas and Novex, a specialty medical products company. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and a Master of Business Administration degree, each from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Lisan Hung has served as a member of our Board of Directors since April 2021. Ms. Hung previously was a member of the board of directors of Rodgers Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp. (now Enovix Corporation) from December 2020 through July 2021 where she was a member of the audit committee and compensation committee. Ms. Hung is currently the Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Enphase Energy, Inc. From 2014 to 2019, Ms. Hung was the Vice President of Legal Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Crocus Technology, Inc. From 2009 to 2014, she was the Vice President of Legal Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Kovio, Inc. Prior to that, Ms. Hung joined Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in 1999, where she held a number of progressive leadership roles in the legal department until her departure in 2009 when she was the Director of Law for the Technology Group. Ms. Hung began her legal career at private law firms based in Silicon Valley, California. Ms. Hung holds a J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Political Economy of Natural Resources from the University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. Barahona joined the FTC Solar Board in August 2024, bringing more than 30 years of international experience to FTC Solar. He most recently served as President of Global Retail Markets West for Liberty Mutual, overseeing operations in Latin America and Europe, including Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland from January 2016 through June 2024. Prior to that, he served as President and CEO of Liberty Seguros Brazil from 2012 to 2014. Earlier in his career, he served as President and CEO of Liberty Seguros Chile, General Manager of Asesorias e Inversiones Benjamin S.A. and CEO of Compania de Seguros PanAmerican. He served as Chairman of the Board for several Liberty Mutual subsidiaries between 2011 and 2019, including in Spain, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Chile, and Portugal. Mr. Barahona earned a master's degree in economics from Duke University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Universidad De Chile.

Yann Brandt has served as President, CEO and a member of the company’s Board of Directors since August 2024. Mr. Brandt is a solar executive with more than 18 years of experience in solar manufacturing, project development, finance, and energy storage. He joined FTC Solar from FlexGen, a leading battery energy storage services and software company, where he most recently served as Chief Commercial Officer since November 2022 and previously as Chief Financial Officer since February 2021. Prior to FlexGen, Mr. Brandt served as CEO of Quick Mount PV, a leading manufacturer of solar racking for residential solar. Prior to that, he was with Conergy, a leading downstream solar company, where he served as President of the Americas, leading all business operations, as well as Global Head of Marketing and PR overseeing a team in 15 countries. He is a current Board Member for the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Johns Hopkins University.