Daqo New Energy Appoints Ming Yang As CFO, Effective July 6 - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Daqo New Energy Corp. (DQ) announced that it has appointed Ming Yang as Chief Financial Officer or CFO, effective July 6, 2015.

The company also announced that Tracy Tianqun Zhou, currently Chief Marketing Officer, is leaving the company to pursue personal endeavors, effective June 30, 2015. Succeeding Tracy Zhou as Chief Marketing Officer is Shihua Su, who is currently the acting Chief Financial Officer of the Company and will continue serving in such role until Ming Yang's appointment.

Commenting on Yang's prior experience, the company said that most recently he was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he specialized in the cleantech and solar sectors. Prior to that, he was vice president of business development and corporate communications at JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. Before joining JA Solar, Yang was an analyst covering the renewable energy sector at Coatue Management, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund based in New York. Before that, he was vice president and senior China analyst at Piper Jaffray based in New York and Shanghai, where he was a core member of the global cleantech team and covered the solar energy and semiconductor materials sectors.