The GRENKE AG Supervisory Board

Personal information

Born in Neuss on 17 May 1951

Milestones

• Professor Lipp studied Economics and Modern History at the Universities of Cambridge and Saarbrücken, and was awarded his doctorate in 1979.  
• In 1979 he began his career as Secretary General of the German Council of Economic Experts (known as ‘The Five Sages’).
• In 1984 he was appointed as Professor of International Finance at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt.
• In 1987 he joined Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt, where he worked as Chief Economist and subsequently General Manager for the international financing business.
• He served on the Board of Directors at Dresdner Bank from 1995 to 2000. 
• Since 2000, Professor Lipp has been Managing Partner at ODEWALD & COMPAGNIEGesellschaft für Beteiligungen mbH in Berlin.

Memberships

In May 2003, Prof. Lipp was elected to the Supervisory Board of GRENKE AG and confirmed in May 2008, in May 2013 and in May 2018, each for a further five years. 

He has been the Chairman of the Supervisory Board since May 2005.

Prof. Dr. Ernst-Moritz Lipp is a member of other statutory domestic supervisory boards:

• GRENKE BANK AG, Baden-Baden, (Chairman of the Supervisory Board)

Personal information

Born in Scheidegg/Allgäu on 12 May 1963

Milestones

• Claudia Krcmar studied business administration at the Kempten University of Applied Sciences and graduated with an honours degree in Business Administration.
• She started her career in 1987 as Assistant to the Management Board for Controlling and Accounting at Sixt AG in Munich. She then worked as a Contract Coordinator for Leasing at Sixt Leasing GmbH.
• From 1991 to 1993, she worked as Junior Manager Franchise Controlling and Accounting Northern Europe/Eastern Europe at Cadbury Beverages Europe in Munich.
• After paternal leave and time off for child-rearing, she joined GRENKE AG in Baden-Baden in 2000 as a member of the Controlling Score/Cost Accounting department. In 2009, she was promoted to team leader in Controlling Cost HR. From April 2018 to April 2019, she held the central staff function reporting to the Management Board on HR Controlling, Cost Controlling and Development.
• Since 2018, she has also been a Managing Director of AMPIT GmbH in Baden-Baden. 

Mandates

In May 2019, Claudia Krcmar was elected to the GRENKE AG Supervisory Board for three years. 
She is not a member of any other statutory supervisory boards or comparable German or foreign controlling bodies of commercial enterprises within the meaning of section 125(1) sentence 5 German Stock Corporation Act (AktG).

Personal information

Born in Ruma, Serbia on 7 October 1969

Milestones

• Dr Ljiljana Mitic studied business administration in Dortmund and Plymouth (UK) where she completed a degree in Business Administration. In 1999 she earned her Doctorate at the University of Plymouth. 
• She began her career in 1992 at EDS Electronic Data Systems GmbH. 
• In 1999, Dr Mitic moved to WestLB Systems GmbH in Düsseldorf, where she was responsible for the IT business as Co-General Manager.
• From 2005 to 2010, she assumed overall responsibility for customers in the banking and insurance sector as Sales Director Financial Services Industry Germany at Hewlett Packard GmbH.
• From 2010 to 2011, she headed up the worldwide banking and insurance business as Senior Vice President at Siemens IT Solutions and Services GmbH in Munich.
• From 2011 to 2015, she served as Executive Vice President at Atos SE, managing global banking and insurance as Global Head of Financial Services Markets. She was a member of the Executive Committee at Atos.
• Since 2016, Dr Mitic has been working as a self-employed management consultant specialising in IT, financial services and start-ups.
• In addition to her self-employment, she has been a Partner at Impact51 AG, based in Küsnacht, Switzerland, since mid-2017, as well as Managing Director at Venture Value Partners GmbH, based in Munich, Germany.

Mandates

Dr Ljiljana Mitic was elected to the GRENKE AG Supervisory Board in May 2015 and confirmed in May 2019 for further five years.
 

Dr Ljiljana Mitic is a member of other statutory domestic supervisory boards:

• Computacenter PLC

Personal information

Born in Baden-Baden on 31 August 1950

Milestones

• Heinz Panter studied economics and business administration with a focus on banking and insurance at Mannheim University and graduated with a degree in Economics.
• He began his career in 1979 in the Audit department at the Badischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband in Mannheim.
• He was appointed a tax consultant in 1985 and an auditor in 1987. 
• He served as CEO at Sparkasse Offenburg/Ortenau from 1989 to 1995. 
• From 1996 to 2010, he served as General Manager, member of the Management Board and CEO of Landesbausparkasse Baden-Württemberg (today: LBS Landesbausparkasse Südwest) in Stuttgart, including for the Sales department. In this position, he was also the national spokesman for all regional savings banks for many years. 

Mandates

In May 2019, Heinz Panter was elected to the GRENKE AG Supervisory Board for three years.

 
He has further memberships in the following statutory supervisory boards and comparable domestic and foreign controlling bodies:

• Member of the Supervisory Board of Baugenossenschaft Familienheim Mittelbaden eG.

Personal information

Born in Munich on 23 June 1971

Milestones

• Florian Schulte studied business administration at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich with a focus on auditing and capital market research/financing. In 1996 he completed his degree in Business Administration.
• He began his career at McKinsey & Co. in 1997. Until 2000 he worked in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt as a consultant in Corporate Finance & Strategy.
• In 2000 he joined Infoscore Group in Baden-Baden, where he first took over responsibility for the Information Management division and subsequently for overall management of the Group, heading up business information and receivables management, scoring and factoring.
• From 2005 to 2007, following the takeover by Bertelsmann, he became Chairman of the Board of Directors at Arvato Infoscore, managing the merger of the Infoscore Group of companies with Arvato subsidiaries AZ Direct and BFS Finance.
• From 2007 to 2011 he was CEO and Co-Partner of Deltavista Holding AG in Zurich, and since 2011 has been a member of the Board of Directors of Deltavista International AG, Küsnacht.
• Since 2011 he has been an active investor in shareholdings through his company Fines Holding GmbH in Baden-Baden.
• In 2013, he took over as Managing Director at the Family Office of Sigmund Kiener at S.K. Management- und Beteiligungs GmbH in Baden-Baden.

Mandates

Florian Schulte was elected to the GRENKE AG Supervisory Board in May 2010, confirmed in May 2015 for a further four years and in May 2019 for further five years.

Florian Schulte has further memberships in the following statutory supervisory boards and comparable domestic and foreign controlling bodies:

• MS Direct AG, St. Gallen, CH (member of the Board of Directors)
• Upside Beteiligungs AG, Munich, DE (member of the Supervisory Board)