Management
Business development, engineering, marketing and sales at SMI are all handled by application-oriented, highly-motivated teams managed by industry experts.
These business team are backed by a solid Operations & Finance Team, which ensures that our orders are fulfilled on time and to the high quality our clients have come to expect.
Our teams are encouraged to grow and are mentored in this by the managing directors, who have known each other since university, and who have been running SMI as a partnership for over 10 years:
Dr. Winfried Teiwes
- Studied Electrical Engineering – TU Munich
- Doctorate (TU Berlin) on the development of a 3D image-based eye tracking system
- Postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Managed SMI from the beginning
Eberhard Schmidt
- Studied Electrical Engineering – TU Munich
- MBA (INSEAD)
- 8 years management consulting in high-tech industries and new businesses with McKinsey&Company
- Multiple start-up experience from inception via financing and growth to successful trade sale.
- Partner at SMI since 1997