68 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine BUSINESS, FINANCE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CAROLINE STOCKDALE CHIEF PEOPLE AND COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER First Solar Scottsdale, AZ Caroline Stockdale is a seasoned executive celebrating more than 25 years of business leadership expertise across several industries. Since 2019, she has served as the chief people and communications officer at First Solar, one of the United States’ premier manufacturers of solar panels. She attended the University of Sheffield, earning a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and political theories and institutions in 1986. Shortly after graduating, Ms. Stockdale was recruited into retail leader Marks and Spencer’s commercial management training program, where she met an early mentor whose background was in the financial services sector. With their guidance, she completed a four-year accountancy program, becoming a qualified chartered accountant. While she intended to build a permanent career in accounting, Ms. Stockdale began working with a bank during a period of economic downturn. In 1997, she joined GE Capital Services, rising to become executive vice president and global human resources leader by the time of her departure. She relocated to the United States in 2000 as a part of her role with GE Capital Services and played a key part in the company’s chief financial officer’s plan for international expansion. In 2002, Ms. Stockdale became a senior vice president of human resources for American Express Financial Advisors & Global Financial Services, a role she considers one of the most important pivots of her career and her introduction to the human resources space. After three years with American Express, Ms. Stockdale was named executive vice president of global human resources and business operations at Warner Music Group, beginning a period of major overhaul of the way the company handled its human capital management. Ms. Stockdale identified key inefficiencies in the way that personnel were recruited and managed and led initiatives to modernize policies that had largely been created in the 1960s and 1970s, a project she considers one of her proudest professional achievements. Between 2010 and 2013, she served as senior vice president and chief human resources officer at Medtronic, remaining in the medical space as senior vice president and chief product officer
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