Board of Directors

C. Park Shaper

Chairman

Park is the chief executive officer of Seis Holdings, LLC. Seis is a private investment holding company seeking opportunities to take meaningful equity positions in cash flow-generating, private businesses. In addition to serving on the Sunnova board of directors, he serves on the board of Kinder Morgan, Inc., the largest midstream company and the third-largest energy company in North America (based on combined enterprise value).

Mr. Shaper previously served as president and member of the office of the chairman of Kinder Morgan. He joined Kinder Morgan in 2000 as vice president and chief financial officer. He was named to the office of the chairman in 2003, and held the titles of executive vice president in 2004 and president in 2005. He stepped down as an officer of the entities in March 2013. Mr. Shaper was instrumental in spearheading the company’s transparent financial reporting and communication to the investment community.

Prior to joining Kinder Morgan, he was president and director of Altair Corporation, an enterprise focused on the distribution of web-based investment research for the financial services industry. He also served as vice president and chief financial officer for Data Analytics, and was a consultant for The Boston Consulting Group, as well as the Strategic Services Division of Andersen Consulting.

Mr. Shaper holds bachelor’s degrees in industrial engineering and quantitative economics from Stanford University. He also earned an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He is the trust manager for Weingarten Realty Trust and is also active in the Houston community, sitting on the board of directors of Texas Children’s Hospital, the Alley Theatre, the Children’s Museum of Houston and Genesys Works.

Paul S. Mathews

President and CEO

Paul was named President and CEO of Sunnova in March 2025. In his previous role, he served as Sunnova’s Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, prior to which, he served as Executive Vice President, Service and Supply Chain since joining Sunnova in January 2023. Mr. Mathews previously held multiple leadership positions at United Parcel Service, Inc. from 2004 to 2022, including as President of Engineering from 2020 to 2022; Americas Region Vice President of Engineering from 2019 to 2020; and as Asia Pacific Director of Engineering from 2015 to 2019. Mr. Mathews brings almost two decades of operational and logistics engineering and service experience to Sunnova. Mr. Mathews received his Master of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

Anne Slaughter Andrew

Former U.S. Ambassador Andrew is a mission-driven entrepreneur, executive, and lawyer whose career has centered on advancing strategic initiatives and businesses that deliver sustainable outcomes. She served as our U.S. Ambassador in Costa Rica under President Obama (2010-2013), leading an Embassy of more than 300 staff and 10 federal agencies. Before her public service, former Ambassador Andrew spent more than 20 years as an Energy and Environmental Attorney leading national initiatives addressing brownfields and clean air programs through stakeholder engagement. In addition, Ms. Andrew launched a sustainable agricultural venture and was a co-founder of a national clean tech policy organization. Ms. Andrew now serves on the Board of several clean-energy start-ups and of a leading solar energy company, Sunnova Energy International, Inc. (NOVA), advising on the launch of its ESG initiative. Through the work of her consulting company WindRun Strategies, she is investing, advising and advocating for initiatives that advance a more inclusive clean energy economy, including the 2020 launch of the NewDEAL Forum’s Climate Solutions Report for State and Local Policymakers. Former Amb. Andrew also serves on the Board and Executive Committee of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Telluride Foundation in Telluride, Colorado. Ms. Andrew holds a B.A. degree from Georgetown University and received her J.D. from Indiana University McKinney School of Law, which recently awarded her the Bicentennial Medal for distinguished service.

Akbar Mohamed

Akbar was appointed to Sunnova’s board in December 2020. As an accomplished executive with over 20 years of experience in retail and wireless technology, Mr. Mohamed has served as the President of Prime Communications, the largest AT&T authorized retailer in the United States, since 2010. Mr. Mohamed oversees sales leadership and retail distribution, and drives Prime’s growth strategy, which has included several recent large acquisitions effectively increasing the footprint from 700 stores in 2018 to over 2,000 as of December 1st, 2021.

Additionally, Mr. Mohamed established and serves as Chairman of Prime’s retail subsidiary brands, including Prime Canada, the largest Rogers’ Wireless authorized retailer with approximately 50 retail stores in Canada; Prime Wireless Holdings, AT&T’s largest operator in Mexico with over 270 retail stores; and Sun Com, a Cricket Wireless authorized retailer with 250 retail stores in the southeastern United States. Outside of Prime, Mr. Mohamed’s entrepreneurial spirit has led him to found numerous successful companies including GamesPlus, Prepaid Works, and Wireless Works. Through his family office – Jumana Capital, he is also an active investor in operating businesses, real estate, private equity, and venture capital funds. In addition, Mr. Mohamed serves as a Board of Trustee and Chairman for Awty International school, and previously served on the Aga Khan Economic Planning Board as a national member and chairman of Nizari Credit Union. He is also an active member of the Houston Young Presidents Organization (YPO), where he serves as a member of the Executive Board. Prior to joining Prime, Mr. Mohamed served as an investment professional at Hicks Muse, a private equity firm in Dallas, and as a merger and acquisitions professional at Goldman Sachs, a global investment bank in New York.

Mr. Mohamed received his Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and finance, summa cum laude, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Jeremy D. Thigpen

Jeremy was appointed to Sunnova’s board in September 2024. Mr. Thigpen has extensive experience leading publicly traded companies in the energy services sector. He has been Chief Executive Officer of Transocean Ltd. since joining the company in April 2015. Mr. Thigpen has also been a member of the company's Board of Directors since 2015 and previously served as President of Transocean Ltd. from April 2015 until February 2022. Prior to joining Transocean Ltd., he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at National Oilwell Varco, Inc., where he spent 18 years.

During his tenure at NOV, Mr. Thigpen spent five years as the company's President of Downhole and Pumping Solutions business and four years as President of its Downhole Tools group. He also served in various management and business development capacities, including Director of Business Development and Special Assistant to the Chairman. Since 2022, Mr. Thigpen has served as a member of the Board of Trustees at Rice University and served as the International Association of Drilling Contractors’ Chair in 2022.

Mary Yang

Mary has more than 25 years of experience in technology through a career focused on advising companies on strategic investments, alliance opportunities and global M&A activity. Up until 2022, Ms. Yang served as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of Ciena Corporation, a networking systems, services and software company, a position she held since April 2020.

Previously, Ms. Yang served as Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategic Alliances at Fortinet, Inc., a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, from July 2014 to February 2016. In addition, she previously held senior leadership roles in strategy and corporate development at leading communications companies, including Cisco Systems, Inc. and Nortel Networks Limited.

Ms. Yang holds several academic degrees from Stanford University, including a Juris Doctorate, Master of Business Administration, Master of Science in Management Science and Engineering, and Bachelor of Arts in Quantitative Economics.

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