Mr. Sean Tzou has been appointed to the new position of chief strategy officer. Having served as the company's chief operations officer from March of 2007 until this June, the new position will allow him to focus on key strategic growth areas including sales team management, channel optimization, and brand enhancement and promotion. He will continue to serve as a director on Trina Solar's Board of Directors.
Mr. Gary Yu, who served as Trina Solar's vice president of manufacturing since May of 2007, has been promoted to the position of senior vice president, operations, and will continue to manage daily responsibilities of manufacturing and operations management. His role, says the company, will remain focused on key internal operations areas such as manufacturing cost reduction, and will now include capacity expansion and supply chain management.
"We have enacted these changes to better align our management team coverage of key internal and external growth areas to assure the continuing strength of our high product quality and manufacturing cost leadership," said Mr. Jifan Gao, chairman and chief executive officer of Trina Solar. "We are excited that Sean is taking on the responsibility to oversee the company's strategic drive in global marketing and sales. We are also confident that Gary will continue to do a great job in his expanded role on the operations management side."
