René Gawron,
born in 1961, is Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”). His main responsibilities are administration, accounting, finance, M&A, human resources and investor relations. After graduating with a degree in business administration from the University of Berlin, he held various positions at Siemens AG between 1985
and 2000, including, among others, head of business development for its mobile telecom networks. Before joining SQS as CFO in 2001, Mr Gawron was a member of the management board of a software company
called Artificial Life (Deutschland) AG, and an electronics company called Meads Inc.