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Dan Shugar

Founder & CEO
Nextracker

For over 30 years, Dan Shugar has led world-class solar companies to successful outcomes and advanced solar technologies in the U.S. and around the globe. As founder and CEO of Nextracker, Dan brings together solar expertise and technology innovation in a way few cleantech leaders have.
In its tenth year, Dan Shugar together with the Company’s original founding members, brought Nextracker to a successful IPO on February 10, 2023. With a $4.6Bn market cap, Dan Shugar is responsible for leading with fiscal responsibility, market technology foresight, and a thriving and diverse global staff in the clean economy sector.
Having pioneered and commercialized the first solar tracker in the mid-1990s, Dan Shugar has devoted his career to advancing solar technologies for C&I and utility-scale applications. Since founding Nextracker, the Company has held global market share leadership for seven consecutive years and has shipped over 75 gigawatts of smart solar trackers to five continents under his management. Prior to Nextracker, he grew Solaria Corporation’s annual revenue five times over a three-year period as the company’s president. Well-known for his leadership as president of SunPower Corporation and president of PowerLight, he surrounds himself with passionate, tech-savvy, clean energy-driven executive teams who share his mission to make solar a mainstream power source around the world.
Mr. Shugar earned his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Golden Gate University. He currently sits on the boards of the American Clean Power Association (ACP) and the Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA) and on numerous cleantech advisory boards. He holds multiple U.S. patents and has published over 50 technical papers.

Opinion Editorials, biopic videos, podcasts:
• pv magazine Australia (Jan 2023), Dan Shugar on “Deploying a gigawatt scale mindset”
• pv magazine USA (2022) CEO feature, “Dan Shugar: More Maestro than Midas” by Tim Sylvia
• Dan Shugar [video] on the evolution of the crystalline module technology
• Rystad Energy’s Rystad Talks Energy [video], “Nextracker CEO, Dan Shugar presents at a special, year-end edition of Rystad Talks Energy.”
• OpEd in Gulf Business, “Solar energy set to power GCC green recovery, decarbonisation strategy” co-authored with Rajit Nanda, Chief Investment Officer, ACWA Power
• Sept 2020 Testimony of Dan Shugar Founder and CEO, Nextracker to House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
• Morning Consult OpEd: Texas Solar to Speed Economic Recovery With Safe Jobs, Affordable Power
• SF Chronicle OpEd: Loosening rules on coal plants is bad for the economy — and the planet
• Suncast media podcast: Dan Shugar, CEO of Nextracker: On Scale, Culture, and Winning in Business and Life
• Watt it Takes with Emily Kirsch of Powerhouse: podcast
• SolarWakeup’s Yann Brandt Interviews Dan Shugar, CEO of Nextracker
• GTM, “Flextronics Buys NEXTracker for $330 Million,” by Eric Wesoff
• ShugSpeaks CEO blog library
• Dan Shugar on the Future of Solar Power at SF’s the Commonwealth Club
• Executive Profile video


Keynotes:
• CEO Keynote Panel, Clean Power 2023
• University of North Carolina, Cleantech Summit – March 2023
• Intersolar South America, Keynote Plenary, Sao Paulo, Brazil – August 2022
• All Energy, Keynote Plenary, Melbourne, Australia – October 2022

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