Matthias Wierlacher
Initial appointment: 2012
Elected until: End of the 2022 Annual General Meeting
Personal information:
Year of birth: 1963
Nationality: Austrian
Education/qualifications:
1982-1984 Bank traineeship at Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale in Düsseldorf
1984-1989 Degree in business studies at the University of Münster
Career history:
1989-1991 Trainee in the corporate customer division of Bayerische Vereinsbank AG in Hamburg, Erlangen, and Cologne
1991-1992 Executive Board Assistant at Bayerische Vereinsbank AG in Munich
1992-1994 Adviser to major customers at Bayerische Vereinsbank AG in Frankfurt/Main
1994-1996 Branch Manager at Bayerische Vereinsbank AG with responsibility for corporate customer business in East Thuringia
1997-1999 Branch manager at Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG with responsibility for corporate customer business in Thuringia
2000-2001 Member of the Executive Board at Deutsche Effecten- und Wechsel-Beteiligungsgesellschaft AG, Jena
Since February 2002 Chairman of the Executive Board at Thüringer Aufbaubank, Erfurt
Relevant knowledge, abilities, and experience:
- Corporate governance / supervisory board work at listed companies
- CEO experience (in non-listed companies)
- CFO experience (in non-listed companies)
- Financial/business skills, including financial accounting, account balancing, and auditing (financial expert as set out in § 100 (5) AktG (German Stock Corporation Act))
- HR expertise, including worker participation and social matters
- Strategy / growth planning / mergers and acquisitions / experience of portfolio management
- Knowledge of capital markets
Membership of legally required supervisory boards and comparable supervisory bodies in Germany and abroad:
- Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Thüringen mbH, Erfurt (not listed; Supervisory Board member)
- bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thüringen GmbH, Erfurt (not listed; Chairman of the Supervisory Board, group mandate)
- ThüringenForst – public institution, Erfurt (not listed; comparable supervisory board, member)
Other important duties supplementary to the above mandates and Supervisory Board mandate:
None
In the opinion of the Supervisory Board, Matthias Wierlacher is an independent member in accordance with sections C.1, C.6 and C.7 of the German Corporate Governance Code (in the version of 16 December 2019).