Thomas Spitzenpfeil

Initial appointment: 2022
Elected until: End of the 2026 Annual General Meeting

Personal information

Year of birth: 1962
Nationality: German

Education/qualifications

1984–1989 Degree in industrial engineering (specializing in mechanical engineering) at Darmstadt Technical University; Degree: Industrial ngineering (Dipl. Wirtsch.-Ing.)

Career history

1990–1991 Trainee at Robert Bosch GmbH, Nuremberg and Charleston/SC
1991–1993 Commercial management office in the “Automotive Equipment K1” unit at Robert Bosch GmbH, Schwieberdingen, Germany
1993–1995 Department head of investment control at VIAG AG, Bonn/Munich, Germany
1995–1996 Department head of plant control at Kodak AG, Stuttgart, Germany
1996–2002 Various commercial management functions at VAW aluminium AG, Bonn/Grevenbroich, most recently Director Shared Service Center Accounting
2002–2004 CFO of the Rolled Products unit at Hydro Aluminium, resulting from the merger of VAW and Hydro, Grevenbroich/Cologne, Germany
2004–2010 CFO of Zumtobel AG, Dornbirn, Austria
2010–2018 CFO and CIO of Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen, Germany
2018–March 2023 Commercial Managing Director/CFO of Schenck Process Holding GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
since 2024 Managing Partner TNA Advisors GmbH, Ludwigsburg, Germany
since May 2024 CFO and CIO of Zentiva Group, a.s., Prague, Czech Republic

Relevant knowledge, skills, and experience

• Corporate governance experience
• (Supervisory or Executive Board) experience in listed companies
• CFO experience in non-listed companies
• financial/business skills, including financial accounting, account balancing, and control (financial expert as set out in Section 100(5) AktG (German Stock Corporation Act))
• HR expertise, worker participation and social issues
• digitization, innovation, IT
• strategy and growth / mergers and acquisitions / experience with portfolio management
• entrepreneurship / management
• capital markets
• specific industrial and branch expertise
• ESG expertise

Membership of legally required supervisory boards and comparable supervisory bodies in Germany and abroad

• Joachim Goldbeck Holding GmbH (comparable supervisory body, not listed, member)
• OQ Chemicals GmbH (supervisory board, not listed, member until March 31, 2024)
• Member of the Advisory Board of Schleich Holding GmbH (comparable supervisory body, not listed, member until June 30, 2024)

Other important duties supplementary to the above mandates and supervisory board mandate

• Member of the Shareholder Committee and Chairman of the Audit Committee of OQ Chemicals International Holding GmbH until March 31, 2024

In the opinion of the Supervisory Board, Thomas Spitzenpfeil 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 April 28, 2022).

_{As at August 2024}