John Lefebvre

CEO, Founder of MySOL Energy

Currently, Mr. John Lefebvre serves as CEO, Founder of MySOL Energy, a solar development and financing company focused on PV projects in North America (Mexico and US). Mr. Lefebvre is a board director of PowerHive Inc, a micro-grid solar company based in Kenya and the UK, and previously board advisor to Solar Mosaic, a solar loan company based in Oakland, California, who have provided over US$3B in financing residential solar.

Previous to starting his own company, Mr. Lefebvre served as President of Suntech Power Holdings, the world’s largest solar PV manufacturer based in Wuxi, China. He was responsible for a US$1B operation and extending Suntech's market leadership position throughout North and South America and developing utility scale PV projects globally outside China and Japan.

Prior to Suntech, he served as EVP of Sales & Business Development at SolarCity (now Tesla Energy) where he grew the company’s sales from $4M to $650M annually from 40 to 3,000 employees. Mr. Lefebvre was responsible for SolarCity’s sales growth and strategic partnerships like Home Depot, Tesla, Best Buy, Top 25 homebuilders, various utilities and retail electricity providers, etc. SolarCity went public in 2012 and was acquired by Tesla for US$2.6B.

Mr. Lefebvre began his career at GE before transitioning to the semiconductor capital equipment industry for 12 years at Mattson Technology (startup that went public) and Lam Research Corp.

Mr. Lefebvre has a BSEE from Clarkson University, a MSEE from Syracuse University and an MBA from UBC in Vancouver, Canada and ESADE in Barcelona, Spain.