Corporate Governance

Management

Laurin Hahn

Chief Executive Officer

Laurin Hahn is co-founder, Chief Executive Officer of Sono Motors and Managing Director of Sono Group N.V.. Driven by the ambition of realizing system change, he decided to stop his studies in Electrical Engineering and to fully dedicate to the development of an efficient, affordable electric vehicle, suitable for everyday use and whose battery can be additionally charged by the sun – the Sion.

Based on this project and the vision of a sustainable mobility concept independent of fossil fuels, Sono Motors GmbH was founded in 2016 by Laurin Hahn, Jona Christians, and Navina Pernsteiner.

Next to his role at Sono, Laurin Hahn is also a member of the Entrepreneurs for Future. In 2019 Laurin was recognized as one of the ‘Top 40 under 40 German entrepreneurs’ by the magazine Capital. In 2020, Sono Motors and its founders were awarded as the number 1 of ‘Most innovative startups in mobility’ by Forbes.

In the same year, Laurin was a nominee for the ‘Entrepreneur of the year Germany 2020’ by Ernst & Young.

Jona Christians

Chief Executive Officer

Jona Christians co-founder, Chief Executive Officer of Sono Motors and Managing Director of Sono Group N.V.. After graduating in 2012 he started to develop and realize the vision of a sustainable mobility concept independent of fossil fuels. As the joint project grew and consolidated, he decided against his studies in computer science and experimental physics and devoted himself fully to the development of the Sion and the management of Sono Motors.

In 2016, he co-founded the company together with his two friends and partners Laurin Hahn and Navina Pernsteiner. Together with Laurin, he manually laid the very foundation for the company’s first vehicle, and has been successfully running Sono Motors since then. At the age of 27, Jona was nominated for ‘Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 Germany’ by renowned management consultancy Ernst & Young. With Sono Motors he is amongst the finalists of the ‘German Sustainability Award Design’. In 2020, Sono Motors and its founders were awarded as the number 1 of ‘Most innovative startups in mobility’ by Forbes.

Next to his role at Sono, Jona currently serves as a member of the entrepreneurial community Leaders for Climate Action.

Torsten Kiedel

Chief Financial Officer

Torsten Kiedel is Chief Financial Officer at Sono Motors. Since the beginning of 2020, he has been responsible for the Finance & Controlling departments. The company particularly benefits from Torsten‘s proven track record in management positions with established corporations such as BMW and successful start-ups such as myTaxi and FlixMobility. Torsten began his career in 2004 with the BMW Group, where he worked for seven years in various financial positions. He gained valuable international experience during his three years as Controller at the corporate’s own financial service BMW Bank of North America. He then became CFO at the mobility provider myTaxi, now called Free Now, and VP Finance at FlixMobility.

At the end of 2019, Torsten followed the company‘s open financing campaign with great interest. In 2020, he made the decision to support the founders in fulfilling their vision and to drive Sono Motors’ growth forward.

Markus Volmer

Chief Technology Officer

Markus Volmer is Chief Technology Officer at Sono Motors. Markus was appointed to be in charge of overall vehicle development, in February 2021. In this role he is primarily respon- sible for project management and validation of the Sion. The company benefits greatly from his international experience as a goal-oriented manager, well-versed in both vehicle development as well as testing, by way of his strong technical focus. Prior to becoming a member of the team, Markus worked in various positions at Daimler AG and the Foton Motor Group as a development and test engineer, responsible for testing and validating components, systems and complete vehicles. He directed projects across two management levels in both Germany and China.

The decisive factor for switching to Sono Motors was the company‘s vision of putting a climate-friendly and energy-efficient vehicle on the road. For Markus, this is an exciting new challenge. One that he has enthusiastically accepted.

Supervisory Board

Sandra Vogt-Sasse

Chair of the Supervisory Board

Sandra Vogt-Sasse is a self-employed auditor, a tax consultant and Managing Director of SAVOSA GmbH Steuerberatungsgesellschaft. She also is a supervisory board member of a company closely linked to the capital market through its products and services. Until 2020, Ms. Vogt-Sasse worked for Ernst & Young GmH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft for several years. Her focus is on advising companies on economic issues, auditing, and quality control in accordance with § 57a WPO.

Thomas Wiedermann

Vice-Chair

Mr. Wiedermann is currently Managing Partner of Dankwardt Holding GmbH. Prior to that, he worked as an independent interim manager (CRO, CFO, CEO, CRSO, CSO) in various industries for international, medium-sized companies. The focus of his work includes restructuring and process optimization along the entire value chain as well as achieving sustainable revenue and earnings growth by focusing on and expanding strategic business areas. Mr. Wiedermann holds degrees in electrical engineering (TU Munich) and business administration (LMU Munich).

Martin Sabbione

Supervisory Board member

Mr. Sabbione is currently Senior Head of Controlling at Volkswagen Group Charging GmbH. He founded multiple startups in the cleantech and healthcare spaces and previously held positions as CFO of Sono Motors GmbH and Head of Investment at WiWin GmbH & Co, KG. Mr. Sabbione is an experienced senior finance manager with a focus on scaling businesses and is passionate about sustainability, the mobility and energy transition, and innovations in healthcare.

Johannes Trischler

Employee Representative

Besides various political engagements, Mr. Trischler began his legal career in 2017 as head of the legal department in Freising (Große Kreisstadt Freising) town district, where he, until 2018, was a mayoral staff-member and advised on legal and policy issues. In the same year, he joined Sono Motors GmbH as Senior Legal Counsel and head of the legal department. Mr. Trischler has held the title of General Counsel of Sono Motors since March 2021. He holds a law degree from Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, and passed his first state examination in law in 2013. Mr. Trischler completed his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Munich in 2016 and passed his second state examination the same year.

Committee Composition

	Audit Committee	Compensation Committee	Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Johannes Trischler			Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

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Sono Motors is committed to maintaining corporate governance best practices and high ethical standards in its business operations. It is the duty of Sono Motors' Board of Directors to serve as a prudent fiduciary for shareholders and to oversee the management of the Company's business. To fulfil its responsibilities and to discharge its duty, the Board of Directors follows the procedures and standards that are set forth in these guidelines.

Annual General Meeting 2022

The annual general meeting of shareholders of Sono Group N.V. (the "Company") will be held on December 21, 2022 at 03.00pm CET at the offices of NautaDutilh N.V. at Beethovenstraat 400, 1082 PR Amsterdam, the Netherlands (the "AGM").