UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form 8-K
Current Report
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 20, 2021
SunPower Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
(Commission File Number)
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) | ||||
(Address of principal executive offices, with zip code)
(408 ) 240-5500
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
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| Item 5.02 | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. | ||||
On October 20, 2021, Denis Toulouse resigned from the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of SunPower Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and on October 20, 2021, the Board appointed Nathalie Portes-Laville to serve as a member of the Board. Mr. Toulouse had served as a designee of TotalEnergies Solar INTL SAS (“TotalEnergies Solar,” an affiliate of TotalEnergies SE or “TotalEnergies”), pursuant to the Affiliation Agreement, dated April 28, 2011, as amended, between TotalEnergies Solar and the Company, and Ms. Portes-Laville is replacing Mr. Toulouse as TotalEnergies Solar’s designee on the Board.
Ms. Portes-Laville serves as a vice president in corporate and project finance for TotalEnergies, based in Paris, France. She has held various positions in finance within TotalEnergies for the past 15 years, first in mergers and acquisitions, then in strategy for the Marketing and Services division of TotalEnergies. She has also served as chief financial officer of TotalEnergies Marketing Puerto Rico, as head of individual shareholders’ relations and as head of pension and employee benefits. During her assignment as head of pension and employee benefits, she was also a director of a French health insurance company.
Prior to joining TotalEnergies, Ms. Portes-Laville worked in mergers and acquisitions at UBS Investment Bank in London. Ms. Portes-Laville is a graduate of Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) business school in France.
Ms. Portes-Laville serves as a Class I director, to serve until the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2024.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| SUNPOWER CORPORATION | ||||||||
| October 21, 2021 | By: | /S/ REGAN J. MACPHERSON | ||||||
| Name: | Regan J. MacPherson | |||||||
| Title: | Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer | |||||||