Arturo Herrero
Chief Strategy Officer
People Overview
From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Herrero was the global procurement manager for BP Solar, first as a global procurement manager for solar power systems and then as a global procurement manager for strategic raw materials. From 2000 to 2002, he was a marketing and sales manager at BP Oil. Before that, he was the logistics director advisor of Amcor Flexible, a company that is engaged in flexible packaging, from 1998 through 2000, and he was a planning manager at Nabisco from 1996 to 1998. Mr. Herrero received his degree in economics and business administration from the University of Pompeu Fabra in 1996, his degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnics University of Catalonia in 1996 and his master"s degree in marketing in 2001 from Instituto Superior de Marketing. From 2006 to 2010 he was Global Vice-President Sales and marketing at Trina Solar. He successfully helped to build the company, from scratch, since 2006. Overpassing all Quarterly and Yearly targets, reaching a spectacular growth from 75 million USD revenues to over 1 billion USD and 30% Gross Profit, in only 4 and a half years. In 2010 he joind JinkoSolar as CSO. JinkoSolar has become one of the Top-3 most competitive PV producers thanks to our vertical integrated value chain. We currently have 600 MW of ingots, wafers, cells and modules and we are targeting 1 GW capacity by this year 2011, with the best international equipments including, automatic assembly lines for ingot, wafer, cell and module production. We have 7000 employees in our two factories in China and around 90 employees in Shanghai office, roughly 35 in my department, as CSO, leading: Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Planning BMO, Customer Service. The different teams are spread among our different officies and geographies in Shanghai, Munich, Bologna and San Francisco. Since I joined JinkoSolar, in March 2010, Jinko is becoming a wellknown Brand, thanks to our good approach to the market, to our successful IPO and following offering in New York Stock Exchange 'JKS' and to our good Bankability from more than 20 recognized Banks worldwide.
