Supervisory Board
Susanne Klatten
Chair of the Supervisory Board of
SGL CARBON SE and Entrepreneuer
Member of the following committees:
- Nomination Committee (Chairwoman)
- Personnel Committee (Chairwoman)
- Strategy-/Technology Committee
External board memberships or similar posts:
- ALTANA AG, Wesel, Germany
- BMW AG, Munich, Germany
- UnternehmerTUM GmbH1, Munich, Germany
Curriculum Vitae
- Year/Place of Birth: 1962 in Bad Homburg, Germany
Studies: Business Administration, Buckingham, Great Britain and Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr.-Ing. Hubert Lienhard
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SGL CARBON SE
and Chief Executive Officer Voith GmbH,
Heidenheim, Germany
Member of the following committees:
- Nomination Committee
- Personnel Committee
- Strategy-/Technology Committee
External board memberships or similar posts:
- EnBW Energie Baden-Württenberg AG, Karlsruhe, Germany
- Heraeus Holding GmbH, Hanau, Germany
Voith internal board memberships:
- Voith Industrial Services2, Stuttgart, Germany
- Voith Hydro Holding GmbH & Co. KG2, Heidenheim, Germany
- Voith Paper Holding Verwaltungs GmbH & Co. KG2, Heidenheim, Germany
Curriculum Vitae
- Year/Place of Birth: 1951 in Triberg, Germany
Studies: Chemistry, Karlsruhe, Germany
Professional Development:
- Member of the Board of Management Voith AG and
CEO Voith Siemens Hydro Power Generation GmbH & Co. KG, Germany - Member of the Board of Management ABB AG Deutschland and
Member of the Board of Management Kraftwerke ABB Ltd., Zürich/Switzerland - Member of the Board of Management ABB Kraftwerke AG, Germany
- Head of Gas Turbine business, ABB Kraftwerke AG, Germany
- Lurgi GmbH, Germany
Helmut Jodl
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SGL CARBON SE
and Works Council (full-time), SGL CARBON GmbH,
Meitingen, Germany
Member of the following committees:
- Personnel Committee
Curriculum Vitae
- Year/Place of Birth: 1961 in Herbertshofen, Germany
Apprenticeship:
Maintenance Engineer, Quality Management, Programmer
Professional Development:
- Deputy Chairman of SGL works council site Meitingen, Germany
- Speaker of the joint works council Germany SGL CARBON GmbH
- Member of the Supervisory Board SGL CARBON SE
- Member of the Managing Committee of the SE Works Council
- Coordinator Programming GS
- Further training - Programmer CNC
- Further training – Quality Management
- Skilled worker processing Specialty Graphite
- Apprenticeship SGL CARBON GmbH, Meitingen, Germany
Dr. Christine Bortenlänger
Managing Director Deutsches Aktieninstitut e.V.,
Frankfurt / Main, Germany
Member of the following committees:
- Audit Committee
- Nomination Committee
- Strategy-/Technology Committee
External board memberships or similar posts:
- ERGO Versicherungsgruppe Aktiengesellschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
- TÜV Süd Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, Germany
- Münchener Hypothekenbank e.G., Munich, Germany (Member of representatives’ assembly)
Curriculum Vitae
- Year / Place of birth: 1966 in Munich, Germany
Studies / Apprenticeship:
- Doctorate in Business Economics, Munich, Germany
- Bank apprenticeship, Bayerische Vereinsbank AG, Munich, Germany
Professional career:
- Managing Director, Deutsches Aktieninstitut e.V., Frankfurt/Main, Germany
- Board member of Bayerische Börse AG and CEO of Börse München, Germany
- Deputy CEO of Börse München, Germany
- Senior consultant in the financial services sector at Dr. Seebauer & Partner, Munich, Germany
- Project head for Electronic Commerce, Bayerische Landesbank, Munich, Germany
- Project head of the international research project “Electronic Markets” of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany
Dr. Daniel Camus
Chief Financial Officer, The Global Fund, Geneve, Switzerland and former member of EDF Group Executive Committee
Paris, France
Member of the following committees:
- Nomination Committee
- Strategy-/Technology Committee (Chariman)
External board memberships or similar posts:
- Cameco Corp., Saskatoon, Canada
- Morphosys AG, Munich, Germany
- Valéo SA, Paris, France
- Vivendi SA, Paris, France
Curriculum Vitae
- Year/Place of Birth: 1952 in Ugny, France
Studies:
- Doctorate Economics, Paris, France
- Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Laureate), Paris, France
- Master in Economics, Nancy, France
Professional Development:
- Member of EDF Executive Committee, Paris, France:
- Group Senior Executive Vice President, International & Strategy
- Group Chief Financial Officer - Member of the Board of Management and Executive Committee Chief Financial Officer, Aventis Pharma and Hoechst Marion Roussel AG, Frankfurt/Main and Bridgewater, USA
- Member of the Board of Management Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, Roussel Uclaf S.A., Paris, France
- Corporate Vice President and General Manager Industrial Chemicals Division,
Hoechst Canada Inc., Toronto, Canada - Chief Financial Officer, Hoechst Maroc and Polymedic, Casablanca, Morocco
- Corporate Development Manager, Hoechst Canada, Montreal, Canada
- Regional Controller Europe and Africa, International Finance Division, Hoechst AG, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Ana Cristina Ferreira Cruz
Quality Control Manager
FISIPE – FIBRAS SINTETICAS DE PORTUGAL
S.A., Lavradio, Portugal
Curriculum Vitae
Year / place of birth: 1964 in Lisbon, PortugalStudies: Chemical engineering
- Quality Control Manager FISIPE, Portugal
- Production Manager – Cutting and Balling
- Production Manager – Spinning and Dope Preparation Areas
- Laboratory Manager
Edwin Eichler
Consultant
Member of the following committees:
- Nomination Committee
- Strategy-/ Technology Committee
External board memberships or similar posts:
- SMS Holding GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Member of the Council of the Technical University Dortmund, Germany
Curriculum Vitae
- Year/Place of birth: 1958 in Passau, Germany
Studies: Information Technology, University of the German Armed Forces, Neubiberg, Germany
Professionel Development:
- Member of the Board of Management of ThyssenKrupp AG (unitl December 2012)
- Chairman of the Board of Management TK Steel Europe AG, CEO Steel Americas and Chairman of the Supervisory Board TK Stainless AG und Material Services
- Chairman of the Board of Management TK Elevator AG
- Chairman of the Board of Management TK Materials AG, later Material Services AG - Member of the Board of Management of Bertelsmann Industrie AG / ARVATO AG
- Managing Director Mohndruck-Media Group
- 1990 joining Bertelsmann AG positions 1990-1995: CIO staff employee, Managing Director Application Development, Managing Director Mohndruck GmbH
- Officer Career German Armed Forces 1978-1990 / in parallel management support of family business Glockengießerei Perner GmbH
Michael Leppek
Interim 1st authorized Representative and Treasurer,
IG Metall Augsburg, Germany
Member of the following committees:
- Audit Committee
External Supervisory Board or similar posts:
- MTU Aero Engines Holding AG, Munich, Germany
- MTU Aero Engines GmbH, Munich, Germany
- Nokia Siemens Networks Management GmbH, Munich, Germany
- AOK Bayern – Die Gesundheitskasse, Directorate Munich, Munich (Directorate advisory board member), Germany
Curriculum Vitae
- Year/Place of Birth: 1970 in Nienburg / Weser, Germany
Studies:
-Study of Law, Hamburg and AOK business administrator, AOK Hamburg
Professional career:
- Interim 1st authorized representative and treasurer, IG Metall Augsburg, Germany
- Political secretary, IG Metall District Management for Bavaria
- Political secretary and later 2nd authorized representative, IG Metall Munich,Germany
- Trainee program IG Metall
- AOK business administrator, AOK Hamburg, Germany
Marcin Rzemiński
Technology & Quality Manager SGL CARBON Polska S.A.,
Nowy Sącz, Poland
Member of the following committees:
- Strategy-/Technology Committee
Curriculum Vitae
- Year/Place of Birth: 1960 in Grybów, Poland
Studies:
-Master in Organic Chemistry & Technology, Technical University, Kraków, Poland
-Electronic Data Processing, Academy of Mining & Metallurgy, Kraków, Poland
-Small Enterprise Management, WSB-NLU, Nowy Sącz, Poland
Professional career:
- Manager Technology & QM, SGL CARBON Polska S.A., Nowy Sącz, Poland
- Manager QM, SGL CARBON Polska S.A., Nowy Sącz, Poland
- Deputy General Manager, SGL Quanhai CARBON (Shanxi) Co. Ltd., China
- Technical Manager, SGL Quanhai CARBON (Shanxi) Co. Ltd., China
- Manager Feedstock Production, SGL CARBON Polska S.A., Nowy Sącz, Poland
- Manager QM & Development, SGL ANGRAPH, Nowy Sącz, Poland
- Manager GS, SGL CARBON Polska S.A., Nowy Sącz, Poland
- Manager QM & QS, POLGRAPH S.A., Nowy Sącz, Poland
- GE Technology Specialist, SZEW, Nowy Sącz, Poland
Andrew H. Simon OBE MBA
Consultant and Supervisory Board Member of various companies
Member of the following committees:
- Audit Committee (Chairman)
- Nomination Committee
- Strategy-/Technology Committee
External board memberships or similar posts:
- BCA Osprey 1 Ltd., London, Great Britain
- Exova Group plc, London, Great Britain
- Icon 1AGP Ltd., Guernsey, Great Britain
- Icon Infrastructure Management Ltd., Guernsey, Great Britain
- Finning International Inc., Vancouver, Canada
- Management Consulting Group plc, London, Great Britain
- Travis Perkins plc, Northampton, Great Britain
Curriculum Vitae
- Year/Place of Birth: 1945 in Wolverhampton, Great Britain
Studies:
- Economics and Accounting, Southampton, Great Britain
- Master of Business Administration, Wharton School of Finance, Philadelphia, USA
Professional Development:
- Chairman and CEO Evode Ltd., Stafford, Great Britain
- Joint Managing Director Evode Ltd., Stafford, Great Britain
- Corporate Planner Evode Ltd, Stafford, Great Britain
- Corporate Planner Universal Grinding, Great Britain
Markus Stettberger
Chairman of the Works Council (full-time)
SGL CARBON GmbH, Meitingen, Germany
Member of the following committees:
- Audit Committee
Curriculum Vitae
- Year/Place of Birth: 1972 in Wertingen, Germany
Apprenticeship:
Millwright, Master industrial metalworker, REFA certificate, technical business manager
Professional career:
- Full-time chairman of the Works Council, SGL CARBON GmbH, Meitingen
- Teacher of trade apprentices, SGL CARBON GmbH, Meitingen
- Full-time Works Council member, SGL CARBON GmbH, Meitingen
- Master in brake disc manufacturing, SGL CARBON GmbH, Meitingen
- CNC miller, SGL CARBON GmbH, Meitingen
- Millwright, SGL CARBON GmbH, Meitingen
Hans-Werner Zorn
Chairman of the Works Council (full-time)
SGL CARBON GmbH, Bonn, Germany
Member of the following committees:
- Strategy-/Technology Committee
Curriculum Vitae
- Year/Place of Birth: 1955 in Bonn, Germany
Apprenticeship:
Toolmaker, mechanical engineering technician, REFA
Professional career:
- Chairman of Works Council of SGL CARBON GmbH, site Bonn
- Member of management committee of the General Works Council in Germany SGL CARBON GmbH
- Chairman of the Finance Committee (Wirtschaftsausschuss) at SGL CARBON GmbH
- Chairman of the European Works Council
- Member of the Supervisory Board of SGL CARBON AG until 2008
- Head of production planning Graphite Specialties
- Production planner sinter metal
- Advance education – mechanical engineering technician
- Skilled worker sinter metal
- Apprenticeship at SGL CARBON GmbH, Bonn, Germany
1 Chair of the Supervisory Board
2 Chair of the Advisory Committee











