BMW Group profile.

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BMW AG, Former Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG

*Born in 1956 

Nationality: German

• Studies of Mechanical Engineering at Fachhochschule München, Graduation as Diplom-Ingenieur (FH); Studies of Production Technology and Operating Science at Technische Universität München, Graduation as Diplom-Ingenieur; Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) at Technische Universität München
• 1987 joined BMW AG – Head of Maintenance Planning
• 1989 – 1991 Director of Control Technologies and Process Data Management
• 1991 – 1994 Director of the Body-in-White Production Division
• 1994 – 1997 Technical Director BMW South Africa
• 1997 – 2000 President BMW Manufacturing Corporation, USA (South Carolina)
• 2000 – 2006 Member of the Board of Management: Production
• September 2006 – May 2015 Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG
• since May 2015 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BMW AG

Member of the Supervisory Board

*Born in 1955

Nationality: German

• Industrial engineering degree (Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur) from Karlsruhe Technical University (TH)
• 1980 joined BMW AG
• 1987 – 2022 Chairman of the Works Council, Munich
• 1987 – 2022 Chairman of the General Works Council of BMW AG
• 1996 – 2022 Chairman of the European Works Council
• Since 1994 Alternate President of the Board of Directors of the BMW health insurance fund (BKK)

Entrepreneur

*Born in 1966 

Nationality: German

• Industrial engineering degree (Diplom Wirtschaftsingenieur), Technical University Karlsruhe (TH)
• 1994 – 1996 Datacard, Marketing Manager Asia Pacific
• since 1996 independent entrepreneur
  

Chairman of the Works Council, Dingolfing

*Born in 1965 

Nationality: German

• Apprenticeship in power plant electronics; metalworking foreman
• 1985 joined BMW AG
• since 1995 member, since 2004 Chairman of the Works Council, Dingolfing
• since 2004 Deputy Chairman of the General Works Council

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE

*Born in 1958

Nationality: German

• Studied Business Administration at Münster and Cologne universities and at Pennsylvania State University, USA
  
• 1985 – 1991 various functions in the finance division of BASF AG
  
• 1991 – 1992 Head of Technology, Director Planning and Controlling for Engineering Plastics, BASF AG
• 1992 – 1996 Senior Vice President Finance and Accounting, Robert Bosch GmbH
  
• 1996 – 1998 Managing Director, Robert Bosch Ltda., Brazil
  
• 1998 – 2000 CFO of BASF Corporation, USA
  
• 2000 – 2002 President of Logistics and Information Services, BASF AG
  
• 2003 – 2011 Member of the Board of Executive Directors and CFO of BASF AG (BASF SE since 2008), since 2007 also Chairman and CEO of BASF Corporation, USA
  
• 2011 – 2018 Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, BASF SE
• since 2020 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE

Second Chairwoman of IG Metall

*Born in 1968 

Nationality: German

• 1987 – 1993 trained as a multilingual secretary at mechanical engineering company Carl Schenk AG; employed in Sales from 1989 on
• 1993 – 1999 studied sociology at the Philipp University of Marburg and the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
• 1995 – 1996 earned bachelor’s degree and worked in Chicago, USA
• since 1997 active in various branches and functions at IG Metall
• 2008 – 2011 divisional manager with the Executive Board of IG Metall (IT, engineering, target group work)
• 2011 – 2015 Executive Board member of IG Metall, specialised in IT, R&D, digitisation of work
• since 2015 Second Chairwoman of IG Metall, responsible for business policies, organizational development, target group work and equality, digitalization
  

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Whirlpool Corporation

*Born in 1965

Nationality: German

• 1984 – 1991 Degree and doctorate in economics, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
• 1991 – 1999 The Boston Consulting Group with periods spent in Munich and Toronto (Canada), most recently as Vice President, Recruiting Director and member of the German Consumer Goods Practice Group
• 2015 – 2017 President, Chief Operating Officer and Director on the Board of Whirlpool Corporation, USA
• seit 1990 Co-Founder Simex Trading AG, Switzerland
• seit 1999 Various management positions with the Bauknecht Brand Group and Whirlpool Corporation in Italy and North America respectively
• seit 2017 Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Whirlpool Corporation, USA

Chairman of the Works Council, Landshut

*Born in 1978

Nationality: German

• 1993-1997 Training as a cutting machine operator at the BMW Group plant in Landshut
• 1997-2004 Skilled worker in the field of exchange engine production with project-related leave due to function as Chairman of the General Youth and Trainee Representation of BMW AG
• 2004-2006 Assistant to the Works Council at the BMW Group plant in Landshut with extra occupational training as an industrial business administrator (IHK)
• Since 2006 Member of the Works Council at the BMW Group plant in Landshut, independent works council
• Member of the BMW EURO Works Council since 2010
• Since 2018 Deputy Chairman of the Works Council at the BMW Group plant in Landshut and member of the General Works Council of BMW AG
• Since 2021 Chairman of the Works Council at the BMW Group plant in Landshut

Member of the Management Board of Fresenius Management SE (Chief Financial Officer)

*Born in 1976

Nationality: British, German

• 1994 – 1997 Degree in Mathematics, University of Oxford (UK)
• 1997 – 2000 Audit Executive Ernst & Young, Bristol (UK)
• 2000 Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) Chartered Accountant
• 2000 – 2002 Business Analyst, Lucent Technologies (UK)
• 2002 – 2003 Commercial Director, Weir Group plc (UK)
• 2003 – 2011 Various positions in the Telefónica Group in the UK and Germany
• 2011 – 2017 Member of the Management Board of Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG (Finance, Strategy and Innovation); Joint Leader of the Board, General Manager of Operating Business (2014)
• 2016 – 2021 Non-Executive Director of Inchcape plc (UK)
• Member of the Management Board of Fresenius Management SE (Fresenius Management SE is the General Partner of Fresenius SE & Co KGaA)

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ZF Friedrichshafen AG

*Born in 1960

Nationality: German

• Electrical engineering degree (Diplom-Ingenieur), Technical University of Munich
• 1992 – 2007 various management positions within Siemens Group
• 2007 – 2010 member of the Board of Management, Siemens AG
• 2010 – 2011 Vice Chairman of the Board of Management, thyssenkrupp AG
• 2011 – 2018 Chairman of the Board of Management, thyssenkrupp AG
• since 2019 member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Post AG
• since 2020 member of the Supervisory Board of Fresenius Management SE
• since 2021 member of the Supervisory Board of ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Chairman since 1 January 2022)

District Manager of IG Metall Bavaria

*Born in 1958

Nationality: German

• 1977 – 1987 Toolmaker/laboratory mechanic at AEG Nuremberg
• 1987 – 1997 Trade Union Secretary of IG Metall Nuremberg
• 1997 – 1999 Staff and organisational developer at the Association for the Promotion of Professional Development (FFW) in Nuremberg
• 1999 – 2000 Second Representative of IG Metall Ingolstadt
• 2000 – 2018 First Representative of IG Metall Ingolstadt
• 2006 – 2016 First Representative of IG Metall Schwabach
• 2007 – 2018 Honorary Board member of IG Metall
• since 2018 District Manager of IG Metall Bavaria

Entrepreneur

*Born in 1962

Nationality: German

• 1985 BSc Business Studies, University of Buckingham (UoB)
• 1988 MBA, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
• since 1991 independent entrepreneur 
  

Chairman of the Works Council, Leipzig

*Born in 1964

Nationality: German

• 1991 Joined BMW AG (Chemnitz branch)
• Skilled worker training as motor mechanic/locksmith
• 1996 – 2001 Qualification and master mechanic
• since 1993 member, from 1996 Chairman of the Works Council of the BMW branch in Chemnitz and thus permanent member of the General Works Council of BMW AG
• 2002 Relocation to the Leipzig plant
• since 2002 Chairman of the Works Council, Leipzig

Chairman of the Works Council, Regensburg/Wackersdorf

* Born in 1984

Nationality: German

• 2001 – 2004 Training as an industrial mechanic of the BMW Group Werk Regensburg/Wackersdorf
• 2004 – 2011 Production worker at the BMW Group Werk Regensburg/Wackersdorf and further training as a mechanical engineer and technical economist IHK
• 2010 – 2018 Works Council of the BMW Group Werk Regensburg/Wackersdorf
• 2018 – 2021 Independent Works Council of the BMW Group Werk Regensburg/Wackersdorf for the body construction division
• Since 2021 Chairman of the Works Council at the BMW Group plant in Regensburg/Wackersdorf

Member of the Works Council, Munich

*Born in 1963 

Nationality: German

• 1985 – 1988 studied Sinology at University of Munich; attended interpreting school
• 1988 – 1995 studied business administration at University of Munich (Diplom-Kauffrau)
• 1995 – 1999 University of Kassel, research assistant at Institute for Applied Work Science
• 2000 joined BMW AG
• since 2002 member of the Works Council, Munich

Member of Supervisory Boards

*Born in 1962

Nationality: German

• Diploma in Business Management, studied at the University of Paderborn,
• 1988 – 1991 various positions at Bertelsmann AG
• 1991 – 1995 various functions at RTL Television
• 1995 – 2005 CFO (until 1998), since 1999 Managing Director of VOX Film- und Fernseh GmbH & Co. KG
• 2012 – 2017 Co-CEO of RTL Group S.A., Luxembourg
• 2005 – 2018 Managing Director of RTL Television und Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland GmbH
• 2012 – 2018 Member of the Board of Directors of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA
• since 2010 Member of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE
• since 2019 Non-executive director of Wayfair Inc, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and member of the Supervisory Board of Serviceplan Group Management SE

President of RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research e.V.; University Professor

*Born in 1962

Nationality: German, Australian

• 1987 – 1995 Diploma in economics (University of Mannheim), master und PhD in Economics (Princeton University) and habilitation (University of Munich)
• 1991 – 1995 Research associate / habilitation scholarship of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Seminar for Labor and Population Economics (SELAPO), Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
• 1995 – 2002 Professor for econometrics, Alfred Weber-Institute (AWI), University of Heidelberg (since 1996 ordinarius & co-chair of AWI)
• 1999 – 2002 Program Director „Evaluation of Labor Market Policies and Projects”, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
• 2009 – 2020 Member of the German Council of Economic Experts (from 2013-2020 chair)
• since 2002 President of RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research e.V., Essen and Professor for economic policy and applied econometrics, Ruhr University Bochum
• since 2019 Member of the Franco-German Council of Economic Experts (co-chair since 2020)
• since 2020 Vice president science and member of the executive board of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
• since 2021 Member of the Advisory Board of Energy and Climate Policy and Innovation Council e.V. (EPICO)

Founder and CEO of Vianai Systems, Inc.

*Born in 1967

Nationality: U.S. American

• 1990 B.Sc. in Computer Science from Syracuse University, New York, USA
• 1990 – 1996 Doctoral studies (Ph.D.) at Stanford University in Artificial Intelligence, USA
• 1996 – 2002 Stations at Xerox, iBrain und Bodha, Inc.
• 2002 – 2010 Various positions at SAP AG
• 2010 – 2014 Member of the Executive Board of SAP AG (since May 2014: SAP SE), Head of all Products and Technology
• 2014 – 2017 CEO and Managing Director of Infosys Limited, India
• since 2018 Founder and CEO of Vianai Systems, Inc., USA
• since 2019 Board of Directors, Oracle
• since 2019 Member of Advisory Council of Standford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

First Proxy Agent and Managing Director of IG Metall Munich

* Born in 1964

Nationality: German

• Lawyer (Große Juristische Staatsprüfung), studied at Freie Universität Berlin and Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg/Breisgau
• 1993 – 1994 Lawyer in Hamburg with focus on labour and social law
• 1994 – 1997 Scientific Assistant at the Institute for German and European Technological and Environmental Law at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• 1997 – 2016 Regional Lawyer at IG Metall, Bavarian department
• 2016 – 2020 General Counsel of the Board of Directors of IG Metall, Frankfurt
• Since 2021 First Proxy Agent and Managing Director of IG Metall Munich 

Senior Vice President Financial Services

*Born in 1960

Nationality: German

• 1979 – 1984 studied business administration (University of Regensburg), graduated with diploma in business administration
• 1985 – 1988 Research assistant at the institute for business taxation (University of Regensburg), doctorate in economics
• 1988 – 1989 Specialist International Corporate Taxation, Munich Reinsurance AG
• 1989 – 1998 Various function within BMW AG accounting
• 1998 – 2001 Vice President Group Financial Planning and Controlling
• 2001 – 2002 Executive Vice President CFO BMW (US) Holding Corp., USA
• 2003 – 2004 Vice President Sales Planning, Process and IT Planning
• 2005 – 2017 Senior Vice President Group Reporting
• since 2017 Senior Vice President Financial Services