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Bill Mulligan
Bill Mulligan is our Chief Executive Officer. Before joining Maxeon, he served as the Chief Operating Officer for Sila Nanotechnologies, a battery materials company. Prior to that, Mr. Mulligan held senior leadership positions at SunPower Corporation, including Executive Vice President of Global Operations, Vice President Technology Strategy and Vice President Research and Development. He was also President and Chief Executive Officer at SolarBridge Technologies, a micro inverter company. Before that he has held engineering roles at AstroPower and Fairchild/National Semiconductor. Dr. Mulligan has almost 30 years of solar industry experience and over 30 technical publications relating to solar technology to his credit. Dr. Mulligan holds a B.A. in History and a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Washington, a M.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Colorado School of Mines.
Donald Colvin
Donald Colvin serves as an independent director and Chairman of Maxeon's Board, Chairman of its Compensation Committee, member of its Audit Committee and member of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Colvin also serves as an independent director and chairman of the audit committee for Viavi Solutions and Agilysys. Mr. Colvin has served on other boards throughout his career, including as an independent director on the audit committee for Applied Micro Circuits Corporation and Isola and an advisory board member for Conexant Systems. Mr. Colvin was interim Chief Financial Officer for Isola during 2015 and 2016, appointed by their Board to restructure the company, and prior to this was Chief Financial Officer of Caesars Entertainment Corporation from November 2012 to January 2015. Mr. Colvin has also served as Chief Financial Officer for ON Semiconductor Corp., Amtel Corporation and European Silicon Structures. Mr. Colvin has also held a number of financial leadership positions for multinational companies. Mr. Colvin holds a B.A. in economics and an M.B.A. from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland
Kris Sennesael
Kris Sennesael serves as an independent director on Maxeon's Board of Directors, Chairman of its Audit Committee, and member of the Compensation and Coordination Committees. Kris Sennesael is currently the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Skyworks Solutions, an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors with over $5 billion in revenues. Previously, Mr. Sennesael served as Chief Financial Officer for Enphase Energy, a semiconductor-based renewable energy solutions provider, from September 2012 to August 2016. Earlier, he served as Chief Financial Officer for Standard Microsystems Corporation, a global fabless semiconductor company, from January 2009 to August 2012, prior to which he held financial positions at ON Semiconductor, AMI Semiconductor, and Alcatel Microelectronics. Mr. Sennesael graduated from the University of Ghent, Belgium, with a Bachelor of Economics and Master of Economics, and from the Vlerick Management School with a Master in Business Administration.
Steve Leonard
Steve Leonard serves as an independent director on Maxeon's Board of Directors, Chairman of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and its Coordination Committee, and member of its Audit Committee . Mr. Leonard also currently serves as an independent non-executive director at Singapore Post Ltd. (SingPost), an international leader in e-commerce logistics and services, AsiaSat, a privately held Hong Kong-based satellite operator, and SC Bank Solutions (Singapore) Ltd., a digital banking joint venture between Standard Chartered Bank and NTUC Enterprise. He also serves on the advisory boards of several universities and organizations, including Cambridge Innovation Capital, a deep-tech focused venture capital firm with strong links to the University of Cambridge in England. Mr. Leonard is an international leader with more than 30 years currently serving as CEO of Singularity University. Prior to that, Mr. Leonard was the founding CEO of SGInnovate, a private limited company wholly-owned by the Singapore Government. Prior to founding SGInnovate, Mr. Leonard served three years as the Executive Deputy Chairman of the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), a Singapore Government statutory board under the purview of Singapore's Ministry of Communications and Information. Prior to joining Singapore Government in 2013, he held executive leadership roles in Europe and Asia for two decades with several global technology companies including EMC, Symantec and EDS.
Erick Chabanne
Erick Chabanne serves as a director designated by TotalEnergies on Maxeon's Board of Directors and member of its Compensation Committee. Mr. Chabanne is the Vice President Corporate Affairs of Marketing & Services for Asia-Pacific & Middle East for TotalEnergies, located in Singapore. He has held various positions within TotalEnergies since 1990 in the downstream division, including Chief Financial Officer in Cameroon and Kenya, Managing Director of the subsidiaries in Zambia and Réunion, Director of Safety/Health/Environment and Sustainable Development for Africa and Middle East Division, Vice President Corporate Affairs of Totalgaz in France and Head of Department of Management Control for the Marketing & Services Division. Mr. Chabanne graduated with a Master of Business Administration from the University of Ottawa and E.S.L.S.C.A Business School.
Gavin Adda serves as a director designated by TotalEnergies on Maxeon's Board of Directors and member of its Coordination Committee. Mr. Adda has served as the Chief Executive Officer of TotalEnergies Renewables Distributed Generation (DG) Asia since 2017. TotalEnergies DG Asia was created when TotalEnergies acquired Mr. Adda's company. He also serves as Co-Chairman of the European Chamber of Commerce (Sustainability Committee) in Singapore and he serves on the TotalEnergies Executive Management Committee for Asia. Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer and Founder of CleantechEnergy Private Limited in India, which was acquired by Shell and Keppel. Prior to that, Mr. Adda held various executive level positions at REC Solar Limited and Samsung Group. Mr. Adda graduated from Cambridge University in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts, and from INSEAD in 2006 with a Master in Business Administration.
Nikita Taldykin
Nikita Taldykin serves as a director designated by TotalEnergies on Maxeon's Board of Directors and member of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Since 2018, Mr. Taldykin has been the Vice President and General Counsel – Upstream and Corporate Services of TotalEnergies American Services, located in Houston, Texas. In this role, he sits on several management committees and boards of directors and is responsible for corporate governance and managing legal and compliance affairs for TotalEnergies' upstream affiliates in the United States. He joined TotalEnergies in 2010 and has since held several business development and legal roles. Mr. Taldykin began his career in private practice at Vinson & Elkins LLP, where he focused on domestic and cross-border energy transactions across Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Mr. Taldykin obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Economics from Georgetown University and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, located in Washington, D.C.
Zhang Changxu
Ms. Zhang Changxu serves as a director designated by TZE on Maxeon's Board of Directors and member of its Compensation Committee. Ms. Zhang is currently a Board Director and the Chief Operations Officer and Chief Financial Officer of TZE and a board director of Huansheng Photovoltaic (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. From 2012, she served in various leadership roles for TZE, including as Chief Financial Officer of Inner Mongolia Zhonghuan Photovoltaic Material Co. Ltd., and CFO and General Manager of Tianjin Huanou Semiconductor Materials and Technology Co., Ltd. Ms. Zhang has extensive experience in corporate management from her management roles in finance, sales and marketing, supply chain and comprehensive planning. She has a Master's Degree of software engineering from Tongji University and a Bachelor's Degree in business administration from Shanxi University of Finance and Economics.
Sean Wang
Mr. Sean Wang serves as a director designated by TZE on Maxeon's Board of Directors and member of its Coordination Committee. Mr. Wang is the Executive President of International Operations for TZE. Prior to his role at TZE, he was Chairman of Shanghai E-Talent Digitech Investment from October 2019 to June 2022. Earlier, Mr. Wang served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Director of ENN Group from March 2018 to September 2019 and has held senior management roles at ENN Energy Holdings Limited. Prior to this, Mr. Wang was a managing partner at Sino-Sin Investment Fund and an Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer at China Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group, and has held various other executive leadership roles during his career. Mr. Wang graduated from Hamline University in 1986 with a Bachelor of Economics and from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota with a Master of Business Administration in 1989.
Xu Luo Luo
Mr. Xu Luo Luo serves as a director designated by TZE on Maxeon's Board of Directors and member of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Xu Luo Luo is the Associate President of TCL Group since 2018, in this role, he is responsible for corporate development, merger and acquisition, partnership, strategic investment and capitalization, he sits on several management committees including TCL Group investment committee and TCL Capital, and he has held various management positions within TCL Group since 2012. Mr. Xu also currently serves as vice-chairman at Printronics Circuit, a specialized PCB manufacturer listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange, director at Homa, a refrigerator ODM manufacturer listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange; he has served on other boards throughout his career, including as Chairman of Highly, a consumer electronics distributor listed on Beijing Stock Exchange. Previously, he has held various management position at BAIC/Foton Motor, a commercial vehicle manufacturer listed on Shanghai Stock Exchange, and AVL, a world's leading mobility technology provider for development, simulation and testing of powertrain. At TCL, he has led numerous growth and transformation initiatives, including spin-off of TCL Industries (incl. TCL Electronics, the world's leading TV manufacturer listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and Tonly, a leading audio and video ODM manufacturer) from TCL Group, TCL acquisition of Zhonghuan, one of the world's top solar ingot and wafer manufacturer listed on Shenzhen Exchange, Printronics Circuit, and Homa. Mr. Xu holds a bachelor degree in computer science, and postgraduate degree in excellence management from University of Warwick.


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Pontypridd Urban District Council Tramways operated a tramway service in Pontypridd between 1904 and 1931. Part of it used the route of the Pontypridd and Rhondda Valley Tramway Company's horse tramway. Between 1919 and 1927, it was the only system in Wales where through running onto a neighbouring system occurred. In 1930, part of the system was converted to use trolleybuses, and the former horse tramway section was replaced by motor buses in 1931, bringing the tramway era to an end. During the Second World War, a number of trolleybuses were borrowed from other systems, to cope with heavy traffic, but the use of electric vehicles ended in 1957. Most of the vehicles were sold on to other undertakings, and the system was the last in Britain to be run by an Urban District Council.

History
The Pontypridd and Rhondda Valley Tramway Company had built a horse-drawn tramway between Pontypridd and Porth, which had been authorised in 1882, but had run into financial difficulties in 1887, just before construction was completed. It had been run by Solomon Andrews, a Cardiff entrepreneur, from 1887 until 1890, and was then sold to one of Andrews' companies. In 1898 it was sold to the British Electric Traction Company, but their attempt to get local authority approval to extend and electrify the line failed. The tramway closed unexpectedly in February 1902, when an outbreak of the infectious disease glanders resulted in most of the horses dying.

Both Pontypridd Council and the neighbouring Rhondda Council had their own plans to build and operate electric tramways. In Pontypridd, work began in July 1903, and in August, they were able to use their statutory powers to buy the horse tramway. although the actual sale did not take place until 11 October 1904, when British Electric Traction received £5,750 for it, after which it was divided between the two councils, with the change in ownership occurring at Trehafod. Progress on the new line was good, and the first trial runs were made on 12 February 1905, with an official opening scheduled for March. The first trams ran in public service on 5 March 1905. From near the Pontypridd terminus of the horse tramway, adjacent to the viaduct on the Taff Vale Railway's Rhondda line, the electric tramway ran through the town centre to Treforest railway station. A branch ran from the High Street to Cilfynydd, passing along Market Street and Taff Street before crossing the River Taff and following Coed Pen Maen Road to reach the terminus. Reconstruction of the horse tramway took a little longer, and when it opened on 4 April 1907, there was still no connection between it and the new sections.

The remaining part of the horse tramway opened on 11 July 1908 as part of the Rhondda Tramways Company network, but although the two systems were connected at Trehafod, there was no through running, and passengers had to change trams at the border. On 14 July 1919, an agreement was reached, and through running commenced. One issue that had to be resolved was that each system used local time, which differed by four minutes, and to make timetabling more understandable, both adopted Greenwich Mean Time from that date. The arrangement was not without its problems, however, as there were frequent disagreements between the two operators, and through running was abandoned in December 1927. This was the only example of through running to occur in Wales.

The end of the tramway system came fairly shortly afterwards. Pontypridd UDC had applied for powers to run trolleybuses and motor buses in 1929, and in September 1930, trolleybuses began operating the routes to Treforest and Cilfynydd, although in peak periods, trams or motor buses were used to provide extra capacity. That left just the horse tramway section to Trehafod, which closed on 30 August 1931, bringing tram operation to a close in Pontypridd. Factors affecting the changeover was the heavy cost of maintaining the track in an area affected by mining subsidence, and a downturn in traffic caused by trade depression.

Trolleybuses
When Pontypridd decided to move from trams to trolleybuses, they announced that it was "the first modern trolleybus system in Wales". The powers obtained in 1929 allowed them to convert all of the routes used by the trams to trolleybus operation. However Rhondda Tramways Company decided that it would not use trolleybuses on the route from Trehafod to Porth, and so Pontypridd used motor buses on the route of the old horse tramway to Trehafod. This left them with a  route from Cilfynydd in the north, via Pontypridd to Treforest to the east, where there was a depot.

Training of the drivers took place during 1930, but because the addition of a second overhead wire was not completed, the trolleybuses used a single boom to pick up power, and a skate that ran along the tram tracks to complete the circuit. The conversion work was completed for the trolleybus service to begin on 18 September 1930. The new vehicles were initially supplemented by trams and motor buses at peak times, but the advantage of the new mode of transport was that a trolleybus could complete the round trip in 48 minutes, whereas the tram took one hour. For the opening of the service, seven single deck trolleybuses were obtained from English Electric, which were joined by two double deck ex-demonstrators in 1931. Traffic levels during the Second World War were high, and to meet the demand, four Leylands were borrowed from the Kingston upon Hull system until 1942, when they were replaced by four three-axle trolleybuses borrowed from Portsmouth. The loan ended in 1946 when Pontypridd bought a batch of eight double-deck Karrier vehicles. The English Electric vehicles were sold to Cardiff who needed single deck vehicles to operate the route along Bute Street.

Where the trolleybuses crossed the River Taff, the trolley wires were supported by two semi-circular cross-arches, which were adorned with decorative ironwork. The bridge stood next to an ancient hump backed bridge, which was only used by pedestrians. At the Cilfynydd terminus, a turning circle was provided, to prepare the trolleybuses for the return journey, but at Treforest they just reversed into a side street.

Although consideration was given to extending the system in 1939/40, no action was taken, and by the 1950s the system was barely viable. The economics of running such a small system were considered in 1950, and again in 1954, when running a trolleybus cost around three pence per mile more than running a motorbus. Although deferred at the time, a decision was taken in 1955 to close the system. This was scheduled to occur on 31 October 1956, but had to be postponed due to delays in the purchase of replacement motor buses. Two of the Karriers were sold to Walsall in 1956 Trolleybus operation ceased in the following year, on 31 January, with the remaining vehicles sold on to Doncaster and South Shields. It was the last system in Britain to use trolley wheels on the power booms, rather than carbon inserts, and the last system to be run by an Urban District Council. The closure of the system was not announced publicly, since the sale of the vehicles had already been agreed in principle, and the company did not want souvenir hunters removing small items from the trolleybuses.

Fleet
Trams
The Pontypridd system used a total of 6 single deck and 25 double deck vehicles, bought in five batches.

Trolleybuses
Pontypridd owned a total of 17 trolleybuses during the life of the system, and borrowed eight vehicles during the Second World War to cope with high traffic levels.

Guy number 8 and Bristol number 9 had been demonstrators before purchase. Bristol number 9 was one of only two trolleybuses bult by Bristol Commercial Motors. Numbers 1 to 7 were sold to Cardiff after withdrawal in 1946, becoming numbers 231 to 237 on that system. Karriers 14 and 15 were sold to Walsall before the closure of the system and were renumbered 301 and 302. When the system closed, Karriers 10 and 11 went to Doncaster, to become 351 and 352, while Karriers 8, 9, 12 and 13 went to South Shields, where they took the numbers 236 to 239.

The following trolleybuses were borrowed during the Second World War to meet increased traffic levels. Numbers and dates refer to their home system.

Bibliography

References

Tram transport in Wales
3 ft 6 in gauge railways in Wales
Trolleybus transport in the United Kingdom

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