Shen Hua

Born in 1963, US national; PhD in materials science from MIT (1995) after a master's in applied science at Yale. Worked as a senior R&D engineer at Siemens' semiconductor division (the predecessor of Infineon) from 1995 to 1999, then as a senior project manager at Xilinx until 2006. Returned to China and founded StarPower in 2005, serving as chairman and general manager ever since. Together with his wife Hu Wei - co-founder, director and vice general manager, who holds a master's from Stanford in engineering-economic systems - he indirectly controls 59.39% of the company via StarPower Holding and StarPower HK. Also chairman of StarPower Europe.