Facts and Figures SMA Solar Technology AG Head Office Kassel/Niestetal Company Foundation 1981 Number of Employees over 5 000 Sales €932.5 million (2013) Managing Board Roland Grebe (Board Member for Technical Innovation) Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Reinert (Board Member for Technical Development) Lydia Sommer (Board Member for Finance & HR/CFO) Pierre-Pascal Urbon (Board Member for Strategy/CEO) Supervisory Board Günther Cramer (Chairman) Oliver Dietzel Peter Drews Dr. Erik Ehrentraut (Deputy Chairman) Dr. Günther Häckl Johannes Häde Dr. Winfried Hoffmann Prof. (em.) Dr. Werner Kleinkauf Alexander Naujoks Joachim Schlosser Reiner Wettlaufer Mirko Zeidler SMA Worldwide Germany (Headquarter – sales, service, production; SMA Railway Technology) USA (sales, service, production) Canada (production) United Kingdom (sales, service) France (sales, service) Italy (sales, service) Spain (sales, service) Portugal (service) Belgium (sales, service) Czech Republic (sales, service) Greece (sales, service) United Arab Emirates (sales, service) India (sales, service) Thailand (sales, service) China (sales, service) Korea (sales, service) Australia (sales, service) Japan (sales, service) Poland (transformers and chokes) Chile (sales, service) South Africa (sales, service) Brazil (SMA Railway Technology) Recent Awards 2013: Women’s Career Index (Frauen-Karriere-Index) initiated by the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs: No. 3 2013: INTERSOLAR Award 2013 for Sunny Boy Smart Energy as the best product in the “Photovoltaics” category 2013: Great Place to Work®: No. 4 Best Employers in Germany, category “Companies with more than 5,000 employees” 2012: Great Place to Work®: No. 1 Best Employers in Germany, category “Companies with more than 5,000 employees” 2011: Best Innovator Award categorie Renewables, award by A.T. Kearney and WirtschaftsWoche 2011: Great Place to Work®: TOP 10 Best Workplaces in Europe, category “Companies with more than 500 employees” 2011: Great Place to Work®: No. 1 Best Employers in Germany, category “Companies with more than 5,000 employees” 2010: German Job Investor Price (Deutscher Arbeitsplatzinvestor-Preis) 2010: Great Place to Work®: TOP 5 Best Workplaces in Europe, category “Companies with more than 500 employees” st 2010: 1 Prize International Energy Efficiency Award 2010 for CO2-neutral inverter factory 2010: Great Place to Work®: TOP 5 Best Employers in Germany, category “Companies with 501 to 5,000 employees”, and special prize for “Life Long Learning” 2009: Great Place to Work®: TOP 10 Best Workplaces in Europe, category “Companies with more than 500 employees”, and special prize for fair salaries 2009: Great Place to Work®: TOP 10 Best Employers in Germany, category “Companies with 501 to 5,000 employees”, and special prize for “Life Long Learning” 2008: German Fairness Prize 2008 2008: Great Place to Work®: TOP 10 Best Workplaces in Europe, Category “Companies with more than 500 employees” 2008: Great Place to Work®: TOP 5 Best Employers in Germany, category “Companies with 501 to 5,000 employees” 2007: European Solar Prize, category “Industrial Enterprises” 2006: Winner “Entrepreneur 2006 – Category Industry”, nominated as “World Entrepreneur of the Year 2007” .