Sunrun has appointed Barak Ben-Gal as its new chief financial officer. The company expects Ben-Gal’s experience in strategy and financial management will help it to re-scale its business.

　　Most recently, Ben-Gal was vice president of finance at Support.com where he managed a variety of financial functions, including all external financial reporting, core accounting, tax and Sarbanes Oxley compliance functions as the company shed its enterprise division and built a new consumer services business. Prior to Support.com, he managed global change management efforts for Yahoo’s Operation Finance team across 27 countries in four continents. He also spent three years as the budget director for the Oakland (CA) Unified School District, managing the district’s financial operations for over 120 schools and guiding the district back to financial solvency. Ben-Gal has an AB in Economics from Harvard College and an MBA and MA from Stanford University.

　　“With Sunrun doubling in size year over year, we need exceptional finance leadership to support and drive this growth," said Sunrun co-founder and CEO Edward Fenster. “Barak brings incredible passion and operational experience to Sunrun and understands what it will take to continue to build a world-class company.”

　　Sunrun claims to install over US$1.5 million in solar every day, completing one rooftop installation every 11 minutes of the business day by letting American families switch to solar without spending US$30,000 or more to buy panels. Sunrun owns, insures and maintains the solar panels and installs them on a homeowner's roof. Families pay a low monthly rate for clean energy, fixing their energy costs for 20 years.