Dr. Stefan Parhofer appointed as CFO of Solar*Tec AG

As of January 15th, 2008, Dr. Stefan Parhofer was appointed as CFO on the occasion of a meeting of the supervisory boad of Solar*Tec AG. He supports the Management Team (besides CEO Dr. Erich W. Merkle and CTO, Mr. Dipl.-Phys. Rainer Toelle) especially in the financial and organizational departments. Dr. rer. nat. Stefan Parhofer is 40 years old and has gained various, longtime professional experience in the field of young high-tech-companies and also in multinational major companies. He studies physics and was awarded a doctorate in the research-center of Siemens AG in Erlangen specializing on thin-film-technology. Simultaneously he masterd in Business Administration at the Babcock Graduate School of Management, North-Carolina.
From 1997 until 2000 he worked in Siemens Management Consulting, the internal Top-Management Consultancy of the Siemens corporation.
End of 2000 Dr. Parhofer left Siemens AG and worked for SimonsVoss Techologies AG, a young, fast growing high-tec-company in the field of security technology. As an authorized officer he was responsible for varios departments, amongst others, for strategy, cooperations and also patents. From 2005 on as a member of the Board of Directors he started up the affiliate company SimonsVoss USA. From 2004 he was also Managing Director of Armatix GmbH, a High-Tech Venture spin-off of SimonsVoss AG and thereby responsible for the financial, strategic and technical department. Dr. Parhofer is married and has a son.

Solar*Tec AG
Frau/Mrs Andrea Billig
Uhlandstr. 13
85609 Aschheim near Munich
Mail:billig@solartecag.de
Web: http://www.solartecag.de
Tel.: +49 89 90 77 49 97-27
Fax.: +49 89 90 77 49 97-69

Solar*Tec AG is a Munich based company with offices in Spain, Italy, Greece, USA, China and Singapore and develops and markets highly efficient solar energy systems. Solar*Tec is the only PV company active in all three generations of PV: crystalline silicon, thin film and concentrator PV. The Solar*Tec group of companies covers all important steps of the solar energy value chain: wafer manufacturing, solar glass, development of components, module production and realization of power plant projects. Solar*Tec’s core competence is the Sol*Con™-concentrator technology (market entry planned for end of 2008) which provides efficiency rates over 35 percent and generates solar energy up to 50 percent cheaper than conventional solar modules.
Sol*Con™ is a registered trademark of Solar*Tec AG.

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