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SunPower, the San Jose maker of electronic devices used in solar power systems, is getting a new chief financial officer, which is one way to announce its losing its current one. Dennis Arriola will begin work next month when he will “work closely with retiring CFO, Manny Hernandez,” the company said in a release today.

Hernandez (pictured), 52,  joined SunPower in 2005, but was previously an executive at Cypress Semiconductor, the company that spun off SunPower into a separate company in November of that year. SunPower chief executive Tom Werner announced Hernandez’s planned retirement in an earnings call with analysts on July 15.  At the end of August, however, Read the rest of this entry »