Campaign: Oerlikon Solar and Robby Naish Oerlikon Solar and Robby Naish – two innovation drivers, and longstanding world champions with a track record of success and record breaking achievements. Robbie Naish became the youngest world champion ever at the age of 13. He remained world champion for 25 years leading innovations in windsurfing and improving them continuously. Oerlikon Solar is committed to technology leadership and innovation in thin film silicon, and its success is reflected in the many records that have been set, including those announced today.

Robby Naish, youngest windsurfing world champion ever a the age of 13 Naish popularized windsurfing and pushed the sport like no one else; he always invented new materials; thought of new tricks. And exactly this is what Robby Naish still does to this day, with an exemplary nonchalance. For decades he’s been delivering top performance and the best material for having fun on water and the most extreme maneuvers. Robert Staunton Naish was born on April 23rd, 1963 in California’s La Jolla. A few years later, the whole family moved to Hawaii. In 1971, the first windsurfing set came to the island. Friends of Robby bought such a surf-set. Robby practiced and practiced. He was obsessed. At the age of 13, 1976, Robby competed at the world championships on the Bahamas and won! This victory made him the youngest world champion of all times to this day. The material back then was anything close to perfect. Robby and his father Rick work on creating their own windsurfing boards; they test them, improve and build new boards. Robby soon becomes the first team driver, quasi without pay. Naish attracts similar attention under the kite. He won the world championship titles in this sport in the years 1998 and 1999. In 2003 he established the Speed-World record. He ended his professional career in 2001. “I want to continue surfing at the top level; this is extremely important for me.” But it does not have to be about titles. Today, it’s not just fancy handmade boards that bear the name of Naish in thick letters. There are sails, T-shirts, kite material, trapezes, surfboards, DVDs and much more. Naish has been a professional waterman for 29 years, he collected 24 various world champion titles and was appointed into the jury of ‘Sport-Oscars’, the Laureus World Sports Awards. Naish was also winner of “lifetime achievement award” at nea international sports awards, Munich 2000, winner of “boarder of the millennium” in french “boarder awards 2000 and winner of kiteboarder of the year” at nea international sports awards 2001. He is president of naish sails hawaii / nalu kai incorporated, since 1995, manufacturer of high performance windsurfing and kiteboarding equipment and accessories; presently distributing products to over sixty countries.