Biography Bruce Sohn

President of First Solar, Inc.

Bruce Sohn joined First Solar in March 2007 as President. Mr. Sohn was formerly a senior executive at Intel Corporation and has served on First Solar’s Board of Directors since 2003. During his 24 years at Intel, Mr. Sohn played a leadership role in developing and manufacturing leading-edge semiconductor technology. He served as an integral part of the start-up team at five Fabs, was program manager for Intel's conversion to 300mm wafers and managed Intel's two largest Fabs.

Mr. Sohn is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a certified Jonah and has been a guest lecturer at several universities including MIT and Stanford. He has published research in a variety of high technology topics including: applying constraint theory to semiconductor process lines, high-volume factory design, silicon surface defects, oxygen gettering, gate oxide quality, transistor design and statistical design of experiments.

As First Solar’s President, Mr. Sohn is responsible for technology development, manufacturing, expansion, quality, sales, EHS, supply chain, MIS and worldwide human resources.